Music Notations by 7-5 and 6-6 Patterns
The images below illustrate various alternative music notation systems. Each one shows a chromatic scale from C to C. Click on an image to learn more about a particular system. They are sorted by 7-5 and 6-6 Pitch Patterns. You can also view them by Line Pattern, and by Date. For a general introduction see the Music Notations Guided Tour.
Untitled by Franz Grassl ( Before 1983)
Diatonic Twinline by Leo de Vries (1986)
Express Stave by John Keller (2005)
Klavar, Mirck Version by Jean de Buur (2006)
Keyboard (or 7-5) Trigram Notation by Richard Parncutt (1989)
Avique Notation by Anne and Bill Collins (1974)
0-5-7 Notation by Richard Parncutt (1984)
Isomorph Notation by Tadeusz Wojcik (1952)
DA Notation by Rich Reed (1986)
Chromatic 6-6 Notation by Johannes Beyreuther (1985)
6-6 Klavar by Cornelis Pot (vertically oriented system) ( Before 1975)
Untitled by Johannes Beyreuther (1959)
Expanded Twinline by Paul Morris (2006)
Chromatic Twinline by Leo de Vries (1986)
Twinline by Thomas Reed (1986)
Black-Triangle Twinline by Doug Keislar (2006)
White-Triangle Twinline by Paul Morris (2006)
Bilinear Notation by Jose Sotorrio (1997)
Untitled by Nicolai Dolmatov ( Before 1995)
Basic 5-Line Systems by Multiple Designers (1847 - 1920)
Untitled by Grace Frix (1992)
C-Symmetrical Semitone Notation by Ronald Sadlier (1991)
Notation Godjevatz by Velizar Godjevatz (1948)
6-6 Tetragram by Richard Parncutt (1996)
A-B Chromatic Notation by Albert Brennink (1976)
Untitled by Johann Ailler (1904)
6-6 Trigram Notation by Richard Parncutt (1990)
Untitled by Klaus Lieber ( Before 1983)
Notation for the System of Equal Tones Applied to the Chromatic Keyboard and Seven-tone or Twelve-tone Notation by Gustave Decher and Hans Krenn (1877 and 1910)
Ambros System by August Ambros (1883)
Douzave System by John Leon Acheson (1936)
NotaGraph by Constance Virtue (1933)
Note for Note by Walter H. Thelwall (1897)
Proportional Chromatic Musical Notation by Henri Carcelle (a vertically oriented system) (1977)
MUTO Notation by MUTO Music Method Foundation (1995)
Thumline Music Notation by Jim Plamondon (2005)
Untitled by Arnold Schoenberg (1924)
Panot Notation by George Skapski (1956)
Untitled by Robert Stuckey (1983)
As an educational and informational resource, we seek to present these music notation systems in a fair and even-handed way. Unless otherwise noted, they each meet all of our desirable criteria for alternative music notation systems. If you are the designer of a music notation system, and would like us to consider adding it to our site, see For Notation Designers.