Musical notation has evolved over centuries and has been invented and re-invented several times. Here are some key points from the search results:
- Ancient Greek musical notation was in use from at least the 6th century BCE until approximately the 4th century CE.
- The earliest form of musical notation can be found in a cuneiform tablet that was created at Nippur, in Babylonia (today's Iraq), in about 1400 BCE.
- In the sixth century, Boethius, a Roman senator, wrote the influential De Institutione Musica (The Principles of Music), bringing the Pythagorean understanding of maths and music to medieval Western Europe. A few decades later, Pope Gregory (the guy who invented the Gregorian chant) started the first music school in Europe: the Schola Cantarum. By this time, it was becoming quite popular to learn about music. This called for an updated system of music notation.
- Guido d’Arezzo, a musical theorist who lived around the year 1000 CE, is credited with devising an early system of musical notation using dots and dashes.
- Music notation developed further during the Renaissance and Baroque music eras.
- In the classical period (1750–1820) and the Romantic music era (1820–1900), notation continued to develop as new musical instrument technologies were developed.
- Today, there are many different systems of music notation in use around the world, but the most widely used system is the one that originated in Italy in the 1500s and 1600s.
Overall, musical notation has evolved from basic indications of a simple song line going higher and lower to a complex system that can specify in detail all the music for a 100-strong symphony orchestra and chorus
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