Have you ever wanted to select the set of characteristics you want in an alternative music notation system, and then quickly see which systems have them? Now you can with our new interactive Gallery of Music Notation Systems. Read More…

It has been one year and one month since the inception of the Music Notation Project on January 17th, 2008. We would like to note this belated anniversary and to announce some recent and some less recent additions and revisions to our website. Read More…

by Paul Morris

Supermusicology is Ernest Moore Hume’s book about his alternative music notation system “SuperMusic” and how it seeks to improve upon traditional music notation. It is written in a conversational tone with many helpful illustrations. I particularly enjoyed reading the history section of the book and its account of the use of various staves with different numbers of lines in western music history. Read More…

MakeMusic, Inc. has announced that in the next few weeks they will stop offering older versions of their Finale NotePad software for free download from their website. (They will start charging $10 for NotePad 2009, and offer a new free Finale Reader that has no editing functions.) Read More…

Our domain has now changed to the shorter and simpler musicnotation.org This domain was not available last January when the Music Notation Project’s site was launched at musicnotationproject.org We think this change will save everyone a lot of keystrokes over time. Read More…

In addition to re-doing the images in the “music notations” section of our site, we’ve added thirteen notation systems, bringing the number of systems on our site to more than thirty-seven. Read More…

Our webmaster has been hard at work on some welcome enhancements to the “music notations” section of our website. Gone are the old, grainy, scanned-in images of chromatic scales from the Directory of Music Notation Proposals; they’ve been replaced with crisp, clean computer-graphics images. In addition we’ve added information on the year in which each notation system was first documented, and added a page where they are sorted by date. Read More…

New Forum
We have launched the Music Notation Project Forum, a discussion group hosted by Google Groups. Anyone interested is welcome to join. Read More…