Very much agreed. Something I found of great interest, especially given my cultural heritage, are alternate forms of musical theory and notation. I've seen som

Very much agreed. Something I found of great interest, especially given my cultural heritage, are alternate forms of musical theory and notation. I've seen some rather niche notation types that focus on emotion and relative energy while describing notes instead of the usual Italian volume notations alongside the bar notations. But more interestingly (to me) are things like Indian classical music that doesn't have explicit notation, and instead has a taught relative theory, or other countries like Indonesia that have non octave based scales who's music can only be expressed in western notation by microtones. Anyway I very much agree that music is a communication language at its core, with music notation existing to aid the spread/consistency of its playback, but it shouldn't stiffle the intention.