Notation system), and a chronology of important innovations, extracted from information in Gardner Read’s This tutorial contains two parts: a historical background written mostly by Dominique Waller (himself an inventor of a numerical Representation of notes ( #8 of our Desirable Criteria…). Gained by sacrificing the benefits of a pitch-proportional graphical Most of these systems place all the notes/numbers of one In addition to, representing interval relationships graphically on a One benefit of a numerical approach is that it makes it easier toĬalculate the interval relationships between notes - instead of, or In such systems, pitches are represented by Systems that represent the chromatic scale numerically and not However, it is instructive to also examine On systems that represent the chromatic scale graphically, with a
Elsewhere on the Music Notation Project’s Web site, we focus
