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Musical notation - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article |
 | | By the middle of the 9th century, however, a form of notation began to develop in monasteries in Europe for Gregorian chant, using symbols known as neumes; the earliest surviving musical notation of this type is in the Musica disciplina of Aurelian of Réôme, from about 850. |
 | | The earliest known music notation was encoded in cuneiform script in the region of Mesopotamia, with surviving examples dating as far back as the middle of the second millennium B.C.E. Later civilizations, most notably that of Ancient Greece, developed their own forms of notation, which were often written on sheets or scrolls of papyrus. |
 | | Klavar notation is a chromatic system of notation geared toward keyboard instruments, which inverts the usual "graph" of music: the pitches are indicated horizontally, with "staff" lines in twos and threes like the keyboard. |
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