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 ...

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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 ...

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Although the Seikilos Epitaph, dating from the first century A.D., is the oldest surviving full song with musical notation and text, and we know its author, Seikilos, there are some older compositions ...