Notation Must Die: The Battle For How We Read Music

Many people feel that western notation makes it unnecessarily hard to read music. If we want to sight read, learn music theory or just practice an instrument, surely there’s a better way? Right? This has been a hot topic for almost 1000 years… AND I PUT IT TO BED RIGHT HERE! ~~Tantacrul

——— CHAPTERS ———

00:00 – Setting the stage
09:26 – Notation must die INTRO!
15:12 – Ancient Greek notation
19:40 – The history of western notation
31:57 – Chromatic staves
36:15 – The piano roll
42:54 – Clefs (and resistance to change)
44:42 – Muto method
46:45 – Notation & the aristocracy
48:25 – Tablature
51:40 – Guitar Hero
52:51 – Klavarskribo
54:08 – Other types of keyboard notation
55:47 – Musitude!
1:01:18 – Dodeca
1:03:01 – Accessibility
1:04:31 – Farbige Noten
1:06:49 – Jullian Carrillo’s system
1:08:26 – The best of the rest
1:11:52 – Where can we go from here?

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