musical notation
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Eschewing Western musical notation, Mr. Smith developed a system that sometimes encapsulates compositions within paintings.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026
That’s because the score opens with a rest, a musical notation that indicates the absence of sound.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 4, 2022
It may be English as a second language, another spoken language, a language no longer spoken, American Sign Language, Braille, or even musical notation.
From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021
Although he never learned to read musical notation, Mr. Smith had an early ability to pick out tunes on the piano and other instruments.
From Washington Post • Oct. 1, 2021
The habanera and its contredanse antecedents had a highly distinctive accompanying rhythm of four beats, which in musical notation - as in the opening of the Bizet song - looks like this.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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