Musical notation
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Musical notation is any system used to visually represent music. Systems of notation generally represent the elements of a piece of music that are considered important for its performance in the conte
A photograph of the original stone at Delphi containing the second of the two Delphic Hymns to Apollo. The music notation is the line of occasional symbols above the main, uninterrupted line of Greek lettering.
Music notation from an early 14th-century English Missal
Early music notation in Latin, clearly marking neumes (date unknown, Florentian)
Jeongganbo musical notation system
Staff (music)
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In Western musical notation, the staff;, also occasionally referred to as a pentagram, is a set of horizontal lines with spaces between them, that each represent a different musical pitch. However, in
Musical notation
…different styles of music and different cultures use different music notation methods. For example, classical performers most often use sheet music using staves, time signatures, key signatures, and noteheads for writing and deciphering pieces. But even so, there are far more systems than just that. For instance…
12th-century Beneventan manuscript showing diastematic neumes and a single-line staff