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I'm not so sure "it wouldn't be too hard to come up with better..." I read about a thing called hummingbird notation - uses the same clefs, but changes notehea
by lmg643 12y ago
I'm not so sure "it wouldn't be too hard to come up with better..."
I read about a thing called hummingbird notation - uses the same clefs, but changes noteheads, staffs and sharps/flats. Your opinion may differ, but here is a group of folks who spent a lot of time coming up with a "system" and it does not strike me as an improvement.
Have there been other attempts?
- baddox 12y agoThe trouble with notation systems is that the primary thing they need isn't to be easy to learn, but rather to have a ton of people who have learned it. I've seen lots of alternative notation systems, particularly in pedagogy, and from my experience people tend to hack up their own systems for jotting down ideas or composing, but mainstream staff notation is very adequate and has an insane amount of momentum.
- saraid216 12y agoTranslation system, maybe?
- hobs 12y agoYeah, its the same with QWERTY, the only way you could replace the existing system is if the new system was so much better in some way that it replaces it by default. Mobile phone keyboards are the only thing to come close to replacing qwerty, and most of them just re-implement it anyway.
- jtheory 12y agoAlternate notation systems are another subject from music theory terminology. I have fewer problems with notation than with theory terminology & concepts, personally. There are alternatives that get a lot of use -- esp. TAB and various types of chord charts; but they're not as general purpose as standard notation.