When time's a ticking, the best music notation software will help you to get the job done fast. You know the, ahem, score – nothing in life is more fleeting than a good creative idea. So, when ...

Tab appears underneath conventional music notation as six horizontal lines that represent the strings of the guitar, from the sixth (thick) string at the bottom to the first (thin) string at the top.

The score for John Cage’s indeterminate composition “Fontana Mix” (image: BBC Radio 3) With the development of music notation, music was set free from the delicate bonds of oral and aural ...

BACH: LEVEL THREE: WESTERN NOTATION. BACH: This is how I write my music down. The space between the notes shows the duration, and the height shows the pitch. Ha-ha! Ed: What about guitar tabs?

The team believes that instant notation is superior to the use of voice memo recorders due to the universal nature of musical notation. DoReMIR Music Research, the company behind ScoreCleaner ...

This called for an updated system of music notation. “Unless sounds are held by the memory of man, they perish, because they cannot be written down,” said the scholar St Isidore of Seville, who grew ...

The Grand Staff. Treble Clef on upper staff; Bass Clef on lower staff (image: wikipedia) The curving flourishes of music notation have always been something a mystery to me, although every day I ...

And it’s all because Italian music theorists got there first… When the rules for music notation were worked out and written down, it was all done in Italian. Around 1000 AD, Guido of Arezzo created ...