The symbols we use every day have fascinating and surprisingly recent origins, explains author Joseph Mazur in his new book A few years ago friends and I were talking about the origins of written ...

Last month I introduced the ABC music notation system. This month, I continue our tour of notation programs for Linux with a look at the Common Music Notation system from composer/programmer Bill ...

The following article presents a status report on the development of five of the most active notation software projects for Linux. Most of them are works in progress, but all are well along on their ...

The group wants to combine MusicXML and Standard Music Font Layout into a new standard. Some may question why we even need a music notation standard for the web, but to me the real question is whether ...

In this post, we show you how to add Music Notes in Microsoft Word. Musical Notations or Music Notes are basically the written or printable form of a musical composition. The music artists use music ...

Dunning explores how mathematical notation is a social, world-building technology. It’s natural to think of math as being fundamentally abstract. Whether it’s invented or discovered, its truths are so ...

Your comprehensive guide to musical notation and symbols.

Before the 16th century, most math equations were written as metered verse. Thank god for graphic-design-inclined mathematicians.

Harmonic minor keys are used when writing chords. There is another version of the minor key known as the melodic minor. This is used when writing a melody. Each key signature has two possible keys.