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Discover LudwigThe word 'notation' is correct and usable in written English
It can refer to written symbols or abbreviations that stand for a particular meaning or concept. For example: "The notation in this equation is unfamiliar to me."
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notation
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The act, process, method, or an instance of representing by a system or set of marks, signs, figures, or characters.
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He's done so by using the notation with which Beauty was recorded in 1903 by the ballet master Nicholas Sergeyev.
There are few choreographers alive who can even read this notation (which was developed by Vladimir Stepanov in the 1890s).
While the notation is very specific in certain respects, recording the height and positions of the legs, the direction of a phrase, the way the body is bent, it gives almost no information about the positions of the arms.
Stravinsky's rhythms pound and batter; though highly irregular they are still pulsed – and pulsed in such a novel way that the score required innovations in musical notation to make Stravinsky's invention playable.
"Even when it's been difficult to decipher a passage or to make it work on today's dancers, I still try to find a way to do it, according to the notation.
He has since decided that this stark notation isn't such a good idea after all.
The most popular approach to this idea involves a notation called "unified modelling language" (UML), which Dr Booch co-invented.
Klee's "Landscape in the Kettledrum" (1920) similarly resembles musical notation.
He presents a wide variety of mathematical results in a book that is a cross between popularisation and mathematical text, complete with propositions, theorems, proofs and marginal boxes with notation and definitions.
Machinima exploits the same notation to describe and manipulate the movements of characters and camera viewpoints.
As the hype around tDCS grows, some neuroscientists are starting to question whether the technology really is the panacea it appears to be.In 2013 Teresa Iuculano and Roi Cohen Kadosh of the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford split volunteers up into three groups and asked them to learn a made-up mathematical notation system.
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