Musical Notation is Beautiful

You might not know I have a Youtube channel - haven't updated it for a while, but it has a selection of mini-tutorials on different types of notation, including medieval, tablatures, etc. youtube.com/channel/UCK5Hj…

From Pauline Oliveros's "Sound Patterns"!

I dropped 150 Bang Snaps onto manuscript paper

On the feast of St James - the hymn "Dum pater familias", included in the Codex Calixtinus, originating from Compostela!

I am currently working on some pieces from the Codex Faenza! It's one of the earliest sources for keyboard dating from the 14th century.

Prokofiev signs with a quote from his piano concerto!

You might not know I have a Youtube channel - haven't updated it for a while, but it has a selection of mini-tutorials on different types of notation, including medieval, tablatures, etc. youtube.com/channel/UCK5Hj…

One of the stranger markings I’ve encountered in a cello part (from Shostakovich’s third quartet): a crescendo through a rest. I suppose i could LOOK as if I’m getting louder, raising myself in my seat? (Funny - the other instruments, who are playing, have a diminuendo here…)

From Arnold Schonberg's A survivor from Warsaw:

TADADADADA TADA TADA TADA TADA

From Galina Ustvolskaya's Composition no. 1, "Dona Nobis Pacem"!

Lili #Boulanger, opening of Prelude in D flat (1911). I'm not convinced this is a fully completed piece but it's a fascinating document, written when she was only 18 @NotationIsGreat

From Salvatore Sciarrino's DA A DA DA!

From Karol Szymanowski's Pieśni księżniczki z baśni!

From Alfred Schnittke's Cantus Perpetuus!