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To: SunkenCiv

https://www.wqxr.org/story/how-was-musical-notation-invented-brief-history/
Music notation started in 1025.
exactly 1000 years ago.


24 posted on 07/18/2025 10:07:13 AM PDT by Doctor Congo
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To: Doctor Congo

Our current system (staff, clef) isn’t even that old. The system used before that one is still understood, in order to ‘translate’ early music into modern notation. Good thing too.

Rediscovering Awe: Antoine Brumel’s “Earthquake Mass”
https://europeanconservative.com/articles/essay/rediscovering-awe-antoine-brumels-earthquake-mass/


25 posted on 07/18/2025 10:26:02 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (The moron troll Ted Holden believes that humans originated on Ganymede.)
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