Monday, October 19, 2009
New Way to Notate Music
Currently, there are a few innovative ways of notating music other than the most commonly used bar line form. In class, for example, it was discussed that for a flute, there is a notation in which there are pictures blacking out the holes that should be covered with the fingers. This pictorial method of notating music is one of the innovative ways of notating music, and I came up with another way of doing so. Instead of using the normal "dot and stem" approach to writing notes, these notes could be written as letters. For example, an A note would simply be represented with a capital "A". To differentiate between whole notes, half notes, quarter notes, and so on, a color-coded system would be implemented where a red "A" could stand for a whole A note. This system would obviously take some studying and getting used to, and it's not perfect, but its a potential idea.
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