The term "written music" is correct and can be used in written English.
For example, "I love to play written music on the piano."
By the time of the Sung dynasty (ad 960 1279), from which the earliest written music survives, a type of musical variety theatre, the tzarjiuh, was widely popular.
While also studying law, Kuhnau became musical director of the University of Leipzig and is believed to have written music for other churches in the area as well.
Beamish has written music of unpretentious originality.
He had never written music for a ballet before.
But the real difficulty was setting aside written music.
It is this last category for which the least trace of written music survives.
Mr. Morris tended to use very little written music in his conductions, working from scraps.
The Beatles arrived as I was setting up and they had no written music.
Kronos play written music with the concentrated intensity of great improvisers.
Composers write, and have always written, music that pushes the limits of technique.
