Howard Goodall's Big Bangs: The Invention of Notation

charlesmo2012 2015-03-05

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Howard Goodall traces early forms of musical notation, where simple accents were placed above words to show whether the tune went up or down. This leads him on to investigate the work of Guido, whose idea to draw a fixed-pitch line around which to organise these accents led to the musical stave as we know it today.

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