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Notations in simple words are like how you have letters in English; in the same way, you have musical notations to read the music.
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Paramjit Singh
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The notation is an art of reading music and being able to reproduce a music piece which emotes in the same manner as it's written. Music is written in five parallel lines which are called staff. The staff consists of five lines and four spaces. Notes are read from left to right. The higher the note on...
read more The notation is an art of reading music and being able to reproduce a music piece which emotes in the same manner as it's written. Music is written in five parallel lines which are called staff. The staff consists of five lines and four spaces. Notes are read from left to right. The higher the note on the staff, the higher the pitch is. Clef is a symbol placed at the beginning of the staff. The most common clef is treble clef which is also used by guitar. read less
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Music notation or musical notation is a way of writing down music so that anyone can play it. Many systems have been used in the past to write music. Today most musicians in the Western world write musical notes on a stave: five parallel lines with four spaces in between them
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Notation is like a basic building block which helps in singing sahitya
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Notations are the Swaras. In singing, the notations are trained to initially understand the perfections of the Swaras and then to apply in the lyrics and song.
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Notations are the Swaras. In singing, the notations are trained to initially understand the perfections of the Swaras and then to apply in the lyrics and song.
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Notation is swaralipi for a composition.example ma pa da for sri gana.by the notation the tuning can be sung by the singar
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Shivani Jha
Hindustani vocal teacher
Notations are the backbone or the suras which tells u how to sing any bandish or song .
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Vinod Kumar
Vice President - NATS INDIA Chapter | Academy Head | Professional Singer | Voice Trainer
Notations are the music theory which is taught to understand where and how exactly the notes have to be played or sung. In singing, the notations are trained to initially understand the perfections of the Swaras and then to apply in the lyrics and song.
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Music notations are a visual representation of music played by instruments or sung by vocals. It has the information on pitch and duration (i.e.) which note should be performed and how long it should be played. Music notations are written in the stave.
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