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Definition of Musical notation
1. Noun. (music) notation used by musicians.
Generic synonyms: Notation, Notational System
Group relationships: Musical Score, Score
Terms within: Staff Line, Space, Ledger Line, Leger Line
Category relationships: Music
Definition of Musical notation
1. Noun. (music) A system which represents aurally perceived music, through the use of written symbols. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
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Literary usage of Musical notation
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1917)
"Music—Continued Notation Sec musical notation Psychology Psychology of esthetic
experience In music. MF Washburn. Nat Educ Assn 1916:600-6 Study and ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Besides this, they were practically unwritable, and they provided no adequate
means of musical notation. Fortunately, when the various line-types were found ..."
3. Famous Composers and Their Works by Philip Hale, Louis Charles Elson (1900)
"THE EVOLUTION OF musical notation BY LOUIS C. ELSON ;N the Middle Ages it was
customary for every scholar to write his works in Latin; and this language was ..."
4. Modern Music and Musicians by Louis Charles Elson (1918)
"... —Sappho—Cultivation of Song—Greek musical notation—The Enharmonic Genus—Olympus
and the Phrygian School of Flute-playing—Stringed Instruments in Use in ..."
5. Christian Archaeology by Charles Wesley Bennett (1888)
"Their musical notation was, therefore, most involved and perplexing. ... They had,
indeed, rejected the complex musical notation of the Greeks, ..."
6. Church Music in America: Comprising Its History and Its Peculiarities at by Nathaniel Duren Gould (1853)
"The progress of musical notation, from the time of Gregory the Great, may be
explained in a few words. Gregory's method was the very simple one of writing ..."
7. Pronouncing and Defining Dictionary of Music by William Smythe Babcock Mathews, Emil Liebling (1896)
"SUMMARY OF musical notation. In writing a piece of music which he has imagined
... Hence a clear understanding of these parts of musical notation is of the ..."
8. Animal Mechanism: A Treatise on Terrestrial and Aerial Locomotion by Etienne-Jules Marey (1890)
"... the paces studied by means of the ear—Insufficiency of language to express
these rhythms—musical notation —Notation of the amble, of the walking pace, ..."
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