Tantacrul: "Notation must die", the battle over how we read music
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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.
- 0:00 Setting the stage
- 9:26 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?