Definition of Notation

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Notation

The act or practice of recording anything by marks, figures, or characters.

Any particular system of characters, symbols, or abbreviated expressions used in art or science, to express briefly technical facts, quantities, etc. Esp., the system of figures, letters, and signs used in arithmetic and algebra to express number, quantity, or operations.

Literal or etymological signification.

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Notation Quotations

As the mother teaches her children how to express themselves in their language, so one Gypsy musician teaches the other. They have never shown any need for notation.
Franz Liszt

The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation.
Elias Canetti

My being a teacher had a decisive influence on making language and systems as simple as possible so that in my teaching, I could concentrate on the essential issues of programming rather than on details of language and notation.
Niklaus Wirth

I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.
Harrison Birtwistle

To speak about notation as the only way that you can guarantee structure of course is already very suspect.
Evan Parker

Sometimes I write them down in musical notation as a trigger to remind me about certain directions to go. Or I can be specific about a sound I'm looking for.
Harold Budd

Notation Translations

notation in German is Bezeichnung, Darstellungsart, Schreibweise

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