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Tantacrul: "Notation must die", the battle over how we read music

TantacrulRecommended by 6 people on Hacker News, 2023–2026
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1.8M views · 3 years ago · documentary

Tantacrul looks at the many attempts to replace Western music notation, why they failed, and what that says about how we read music.

A funny, deeply researched video essay on why notation is the way it is.

  1. 0:00 Setting the stage
  2. 9:26 Notation must die INTRO!
  3. 15:12 Ancient Greek notation
  4. 19:40 The history of western notation
  5. 31:57 Chromatic staves
  6. 36:15 The piano roll
  7. 42:54 Clefs (and resistance to change)
  8. 44:42 Muto method
  9. 46:45 Notation & the aristocracy
  10. 48:25 Tablature
  11. 51:40 Guitar Hero
  12. 52:51 Klavarskribo
  13. 54:08 Other types of keyboard notation
  14. 55:47 Musitude!
  15. 1:01:18 Dodeca
  16. 1:03:01 Accessibility
  17. 1:04:31 Farbige Noten
  18. 1:06:49 Jullian Carrillo's system
  19. 1:08:26 The best of the rest
  20. 1:11:52 Where can we go from here?

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