![]() ![]() ![]() I’m sure if I looked for 7 seconds longer I’d find Ideathief & Twatamaholey’s comprehensive and beautifully argued 1973 thesis on the topic. I spent a few seconds googling relevant terms, but basically wanted to follow through these ideas prima vista. A major restriction, but one must start somewhere. We are limiting ourselves to 4/4, single notes and no rests.All from Facebook, and most of whom are my friends, so make of that what you will. This is a ‘study’ of a mere 54 participants, ranging from intermediate to highly experienced note readers.So in this short article I will attempt to reveal some of music notation’s hidden conventions and reader preferences. What I’ve found puzzling is that there is no one unanimous convention for notation, nor a system that will please all the people all the time. However the odd enharmonic or dotted rather than tied note in music notation, can momentarily derail even an experienced reader. With word reading you can read wrds wtht vwls frly cnfdntly, or when they are uʍop ǝpᴉsdn, or even ndsᴉpǝ poʍu ɐup qɐɔʞʍɐɹps. However, music reading seems to differ from word reading in that it can be quite easily tripped up. Even without an instrument to hand, they could somehow hear the page. I remember as a youngster being in awe at those who could instantly transform squiggles into beguiling sounds, as if there was no barrier between the symbols, the musical brain and the appropriate finger movements. It’s possible to gain an incredible fluency at music reading, absorbing large sections of music at a glance. ![]()
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