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Re:Hummingbird – A fresh take on music notation by andrewguenther on Wednesday April 10, 2013 @10:53PM (#5529696)
If you look at the guide, the key signatures are still included, but written in plain English. Look at the Fur Elise example:

http://www.hummingbirdnotation.com/songs/Fur%20Elise%20(Fina...

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Re:Hummingbird – A fresh take on music notation by vacri on Wednesday April 10, 2013 @11:30PM (#5529805)
Not all musicians work in plain English. There's the German note H, for example, or half of Europe using solfege: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solf%C3%A8ge#Fixed_do_solf.C3.A...

Musical notation needs to be spoken-language-free.

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Re:Hummingbird – A fresh take on music notation by marssaxman on Thursday April 11, 2013 @12:53AM (#5530049)
Musical notation has never been spoken-language-free: the scores I play are all full of Italian words. I have never learned any Italian; these words are simply part of the notation, much as English words are parts of the notation in many popular programming languages.
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Re:Hummingbird – A fresh take on music notation by vacri on Thursday April 11, 2013 @06:03AM (#5530942)
Fair enough, I stand corrected.
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Re:Hummingbird – A fresh take on music notation by eru on Wednesday April 10, 2013 @11:52PM (#5529893)
> Musical notation needs to be spoken-language-free.

Tempi and volume are usually given in Italian, aren't they?

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