"We'll copy and paste that into the second half which are almost the same, to save some time. Now we can use the mouse to adjust some of the notes that are dif

"We'll copy and paste that into the second half which are almost the same, to save some time. Now we can use the mouse to adjust some of the notes that are different in the second half." I've been transcribing some music recently, and this is one of my big gripes with "western" musical notation: the control flow is really weak. You can't encode something as simple as "same as before, but replace the last measure with __" (much less something like simple macro substitution!). You get "repeat a section once", "repeat the last measure", and a weak form of GOTO. Even a simple score is not at all DRY, which I've found makes it harder both to transcribe and to learn. Are there any alternative music notation systems that have more powerful features?