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| music - oral tradition and notation | A Wisdom Archive on music - oral tradition and notation |  | music - oral tradition and notation A selection of articles related to music - oral tradition and notation:
Classical music is primarily a written musical tradition, preserved in music notation, as opposed to being transmitted orally, by rote, or in recordings. While differences between particular performances of a classical work are recognized, a work of classical music is generally held to transcend any particular performance of it. Works that are centuries old often are performed far more often than works recently composed
Although chant was probably sung since the earliest days of the church, for centuries they were only transmitted orally. The earliest systems involving neumes are of Aramaic origin and were used to notate inflections in the quasi-emmelic recitation of the Christian holy scriptures. As such they resemble functionally a similar system used for the notation of recitation of the Qur'an, the holy book of Islam
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