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 traditions.

Louis Braille, the inventor of a tactile reading method for people with visual impairments, also invented braille music notation. Here’s everything you need to know… In 1829, Louis Braille invented a ...

Don't fear the tab. Tab is here to make reading music simple and, while at first glance it may SEEM just as confusing and fiddly as conventional music scoring, it's actually a WAY simpler way to ...

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 ...

THE ESSENTIALS SYSTEM, the more widely used of the two, is named after “Essentials of Glycobiology,” the textbook in which it was first published in 1978. The notation represents individual sugars as ...

Algebraic notation is the standard way chess players record their moves. By Isaac Aronow The standard method of recording moves in a chess game is known as algebraic notation. The name isn’t quite ...