Musical Notation is Beautiful
@NotationIsGreat
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This account publishes images of musical notation (mostly Western) that I find beautiful for whatever reason. Tweets by @Eva_Moreda.
Joined December 2015
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.
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RT @NotationIsGreat: On the feast of St James - the hymn "Dum pater familias", included in the Codex Calixtinus, originating from Compostel….
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On the feast of St James - the hymn "Dum pater familias", included in the Codex Calixtinus, originating from Compostela!
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RT @NotationIsGreat: I am currently working on some pieces from the Codex Faenza! It's one of the earliest sources for keyboard dating from….
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RT @NotationIsGreat: You might not know I have a Youtube channel - haven't updated it for a while, but it has a selection of mini-tutorials….
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Prokofiev signs with a quote from his piano concerto!
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RT @StevenIsserlis: One of the stranger markings I’ve encountered in a cello part (from Shostakovich’s third quartet): a crescendo through….
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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.
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From Arnold Schonberg's A survivor from Warsaw:
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RT @carolinefrmus: Lili #Boulanger, opening of Prelude in D flat (1911). I'm not convinced this is a fully completed piece but it's a fasci….
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From Salvatore Sciarrino's DA A DA DA!
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From Galina Ustvolskaya's Composition no. 1, "Dona Nobis Pacem"!
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From Karol Szymanowski's Pieśni księżniczki z baśni!
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From Alfred Schnittke's Cantus Perpetuus!
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