Pashkuli Keyboard <pashkuli.keybo...@gmail.com> writes: > Indeed, that is why today people simply use MIDI-rolls to make music. > Yes, it takes HUGE space if you have to write 12 notes for absolute pitch > (vertical distance), especially if you have to print it out. > > Shape notes are older than the "standard" notation.
Shape notes have been introduced late 18th century, standard notation (why the quotes?) with 5 staff lines has been around since the 15th century at least. > You will have a hard time reading 3 octaves of a note, that is at > least 2+ x 12 vertical spaces, 24 vertical spaces. It is insane, even > if you had to use 12 notehead symbols. There is not much of a point in inherently chromatic notation when things like harmony thirds with their haphazard in-scale alternation between minor and major thirds are perceived as natural intervals in our diatonic scales. Notating material in this tonality in terms of equally-spaced half notes is an execution-based notation rather than a notation reflecting musical relations. I know what I am talking about, playing chromatic button accordion: I have to translate the diatonic notation into equally-spaced chromatic keyboard patterns all the time. Builds character. Chromatic button accordion is one of the few chromatically organised polyphonic instruments for which there is _no_ specific tablature in common use (like it is for guitar, lute, and likely viol). Walks of in-scale thirds take quite a bit of exercise on that instrument... -- David Kastrup
