This is a collection of images illustrating Black-Oval Twinline. Black-Oval Twinline was briefly named “TwinNote” between June and December of 2009, before Morris introduced the new version of TwinNote. The images below originally appeared on the TwinNote website during this … Continue reading
Chromatic Pairs is an alternative music notation system by Fernando Terra introduced in October of 2011. Introduction Chromatic Pairs is based on the basic five-line chromatic staff. Below is an image of the chromatic scale on a traditional diatonic staff … Continue reading
Equiton is a notation system designed by Rodney Fawcett and published by him in Zurich in 1958. It uses a six-degree staff rather than either a pitch-proportional twelve-degree chromatic staff, or a traditional diatonic staff. It uses its own rhythm … Continue reading
- from my children’s piano method: My preferred version is Reverse Color Express Stave, as illustrated in the following PDF file: Express Stave Notation 2013 Here are the links to this website’s descriptions of the three versions of Express Stave: … Continue reading
A book written in German on Hamburg Music Notation is available from www.amazon.de: Hamburger Musik Notation: Zahlen sind Musik, (“Numbers are Music”) (Note that “Robert Elisabeth Key” is a pseudonym.) Click to view this image at full … Continue reading
Hass notation uses a five-line, pitch-proportional chromatic staff whose lines are spaced three semitones (a minor third) apart. Three noteheads shapes are used: an oval on lines, and downward and upward triangles in the spaces. This regularly alternating pattern of … Continue reading
This is an illustration of the Howe-Way music notation system from the cover of Book Two of the Howe-Way Music Method, by Hilbert A. Howe (year: 1964). On the Howe-Way staff there are six vertical staff positions per octave: three … Continue reading
The “I-Accord” (First accord or Iraq Accord) is a music notation system with 3 lines per octave designed by Saieb Khalil. (The first version of the text and images on this page came from his documentation of this system that … Continue reading
MSG is the acronym for Modified Schoenberg notation for Guitar by Ole Kirkeby. It is a chromatic system, and as suggested by Schoenberg the staff lines are separated by 4 semitones. The system spans 3 octaves, from the E on … Continue reading
The idea is plain and simple. In 12-TET there are 12 tones that have their names as follows: Do, Bu, Re, Na, Mi, Fa, Ge, So, Vu, Le, Ha, Ti The tones are designated according to the first consonant letter … Continue reading
Shape notes are a music notation designed to facilitate congregational and community singing. Links to more information on shape note are available on the More Notation Systems Page, under the heading “Systems that use the traditional diatonic staff”. To understand … Continue reading
Slantnote-bis Intro for Students The Squiggle–that diagram between the two phrases above, with the footprints–will leap-frog you over the worst beginning difficulties of music reading and music theory. There are many-plenty examples of Slantnote-bis at EarFirst.com for practice on familiar … Continue reading
There are many resources available for Traditional Notation, known also as Western Notation and simply as “music” writing. The Music Publishers Association has created a valuable document: Standard Music Notation Practice (PDF) It offers in one document the list of … Continue reading
TwinNote Music Notation by Paul Morris was designed in December of 2009 when it was first introduced on this wiki page. For more complete documentation of TwinNote, see the TwinNote Music Notation website and also this page on the Music … Continue reading