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Notation Through TimeMain MenuMusical Notation Through Timeby Courtney MarshallIntroductionOriginal VisualizationOrganumBaroque TonalityHow is all of this Related?ImitationGregorian Chant ArcsCourtney Marshalle8e309e3dda94aa45f143b7afdf7ddeb794c3a50
Neumatic Notation
1media/FullSizeRender (2).jpg2017-05-09T22:18:47-07:00Courtney Marshalle8e309e3dda94aa45f143b7afdf7ddeb794c3a50182804image_header2017-06-26T10:29:30-07:00Courtney Marshalle8e309e3dda94aa45f143b7afdf7ddeb794c3a50Neumes comes from the Latin word neuma, meaning gesture. This is one of the earliest forms of musical notation. The words were placed below the neumes; this indicated the melody of each syllable. Neumes did not tell its "readers" exact pitches or intervals, but they did give an idea of the melodic contour. Therefore, they could not be read by anyone who did not already know the melody. For this assignment we were instructed to notate a simple melody, which was Mary Had a Little Lamb, using neumatic notation. Aside from the fact that I do not have perfect pitch and I was not sitting at a piano, this assignment was pretty simple. The neumatic notation system makes the most sense to me, out of every other nontraditional style of musical notation. Aside from a few small aesthetics, there's not a huge difference between this system and modern western musical notation.