Learning to read music with dyslexia is challenging, and terms like Quasihemidemisemiquaver can make the process feel like a cruel joke. Royal College of Art Student Alexandra Theunissen's lifelong ...

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 ...

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Music education in the Western world often emphasizes musical literacy, the ability to read musical notation fluently. But this is not always an easy task—even for professional musicians. Which raises ...

Learning to play an instrument has long been linked to improved reading skills among children, and we may finally understand ...

Annals of Dyslexia, Vol. 48 (1998), pp. 137-154 (18 pages) Both the alphabet and our system of musical notation are largely based on arbitrary conventions and associations. Conforming to the Dyslexic ...

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 ...

Notation close notationThe musical symbols used when writing music down. is used to write down music. It's one way to remember what you have composed close composeTo write your own music.. It's also ...

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 ...

When it comes to teaching children music, getting the little dears to bash away on a piano or strum away on a guitar usually isn’t too hard. Teaching classical music notation, however, is a different ...

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 ...