Before radio turned out pop hits left and right, paper and pen advancements in the 1300s led to an increase in song notation. Graeme Boone, director of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s notebook What is the purpose of a poem, an illustration or a nonsensical phrase in a score? If it makes musicians stop and think, that’s a ...

Music that hasn't been heard for 1,000 years has been reconstructed from a Medieval musical notation technique lost for centuries. Michelle Starr Science editor Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor ...

Picture Goethe’s Gretchen, seduced and abandoned by Faust, dolefully alone at her spinning wheel. Her foot automatically operates the treadle that keeps the wheel spinning, but her mind is adrift amid ...

In the 1950s progressive composers broke from the 5 line music staff to experiment with new, more expressive forms of graphic music notation Jimmy Stamp The score for John Cage’s indeterminate ...

While not officially part of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the Music Notation community group formed earlier this year appears to have every chance of finally standardising Western music ...

What happens when a fiddle playing professor at the Swedish Royal Academy of Music and expert in music cognition and a bass playing computer engineer get together? In Sweden, the answer is a ...

Notion 4 is a full-blown, unlimited and friendly musical notation editor at an entry-level price. When I first heard that Notion Music had dropped the price of its musical notation editor and scoring ...

Professor of neurology, physician, and author Oliver Sacks M.D. has outlined case studies of hallucinations of musical notation, and commented on the neural basis of such hallucinations, in a new ...

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