His task has been to show how the present system of musical notation has been perfected after centuries of laborious effort and blind groping; how the notation of music has gone hand in hand with ...

Adrian Holovaty, founder of music-teaching platform Soundslice, solved a mystery that had been plaguing him for weeks. Weird ...

Learn everything you need to know about music notation, including what Western notation is in this KS2 music guide from BBC Bitesize.

But music notation was still missing one thing: the duration of notes. Around 1250, Franco of Cologne invented a system of symbols for different note durations, consisting mostly of square or ...

In practical terms, it can be as simple as just deleting a note or two from a sequence, as unless you’re going to print out ...

This tutorial shows how to add Music Notes or Musical Notations or Fonts in Microsoft Word documents using its inbuilt Symbols features.

The interval between a natural note and its ‘sharp note’ – or ‘flat’ note (but we get onto that later) – neighbour is called a ‘semitone’, the smallest conventional interval in traditional Western ...

Tab is short for tablature, a notational system used to give detailed information as to where notes should be played on the fretboard. Tab appears underneath conventional music notation as six ...

Scientists are finding more evidence that birdsong parallels human-made music.

Notation Player is a free software for Windows that makes it possible to view music notes and read lyrics. It displays MIDI music files as sheet music.