Notation Through Time Main Menu Musical Notation Through Time by Courtney Marshall Introduction Organum Baroque Tonality Neumatic Notation How is all of this Related? Imitation Gregorian Chant Arcs

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This was our first notation assignment. For this assignment we were instructed to listen to and view a score of a Gregorian chant melody and invent our own way to notate it. The fact that we saw the score beforehand, made this assignment both difficult and easy; i was tempted to take what was already there and slightly change it instead of completely coming up with my own version. However, it made the assignment easy because it gave us some kind of guideline, that the audio alone would not have provided.
The guidelines for my musical notation invention are as follows;
Every note is represented by a different a different color. Every note is represented by a line. The length of each line represents the duration of each line. For example, if a note is to be held for two beats, it will be represented by a two inch line. If there are lyrics, the corresponding lyric, or syllable, will be placed under each note. The number to the left of each line implies which octave that note is to be played (or heard) in. If two notes are to sound simultaneously, they will appear one on top of the other.
One thing that I realized that I forgot to include after the fact, was rests. The chant that we used to complete this project did not include any rests. However, a realistic notation system would have a way to represent rests.