Shape notes were a form of notation developed in the early 1800s to teach congregations how to sing together.
Each is a form of notation, a way of representing something infinitely larger that is forever receding beyond our grasp: sound, life, time, vision.
In the Western culture, a common form of notation is the score, as shown in Fig. 1.
By releasing his latest album only in the form of notation, Beck takes us back to a time before the luxury of the phonautograph, when listeners were either required to listen to music live or play it on their own.
'Simplifying assumptions' are generated by the QCA software to reduce the number of possible combinations to brief summaries in the form of notation or 'logical equations' that describe what is possible theoretically, based on the observed number of cases.
They can be specified using floating point notation, or two forms of scientific notation.
They also suggested that it is likely that symbolic and concrete depictions of number are linked together in the adult human brain in the form of notation-independent assemblies of neurons coding for number at a purely conceptual level (cardinality).
(It may also allow other forms of visual notation — mathematical or musical, for example).
Early forms of musical notation were not precise enough to allow choral performance of even the simplest two-part polyphony.
This interface allows you to ask questions in plain language, or even in various forms of abbreviated notation, and then provides detailed answers.
