When I was an untutored rock musician, I envied my colleagues who could read and write music notation. They could access and study material that literally was a closed book to me. So, at one point in ...

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 ...

The following article presents a status report on the development of five of the most active notation software projects for Linux. Most of them are works in progress, but all are well along on their ...

Learn how to write time and key signatures and how tempo is written down. A glossary of musical terms Learn key terms used in music to describe the different dimensions used across composing and ...

Harmonic minor keys are used when writing chords. There is another version of the minor key known as the melodic minor. This is used when writing a melody. Each key signature has two possible keys.

It’s as much about what you don’t play as what you do When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Today, we’re taking a hythmic turn, ...

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 ...