Our webmaster has been hard at work on some welcome enhancements to the
"music notations" section of our website. Gone are the old, grainy,
scanned-in images of chromatic scales from the
Directory of Music Notation Proposals;
they've been replaced with crisp, clean computer-graphics images (each
painstakingly crafted by hand, or rather, mouse). In addition we've
added information on the year in which each notation system was first
documented, and added a page where they are
sorted by date.
Our
homepage has also been revised. There you will see that we have merged
our chromatic staves tutorial with our account of the disadvantages of
traditional music notation. This puts the concept of the chromatic
staff front and center where our visitors can't miss it. It also makes
it easier to understand the drawbacks of traditional notation when they
are presented together with a better approach.