{"id":595,"date":"2007-06-28T11:32:13","date_gmt":"2007-06-28T19:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=595"},"modified":"2007-06-28T11:33:51","modified_gmt":"2007-06-28T19:33:51","slug":"the-esperanto-of-musical-notation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=595","title":{"rendered":"The Esperanto of Musical Notation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I discovered the existence of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Klavarskribo\">Klavarskribo<\/a> (&#8220;keyboard writing&#8221; in Esperanto).  It&#8217;s a development of musical notation intended to make playing keyboard music easier.  It turns the staff 90 degrees clockwise, so the music is read top-to-bottom, with higher notes to the right and lower notes to the left, as on a keyboard.  It uses a chromatic staff, so it doesn&#8217;t need accidentals.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure that for someone without prior knowledge of the usual notation it would be just as easy to learn to play using this notation.  However, I don&#8217;t see that it has any advantages for voice or instruments without keyboards.  It has one <em>huge<\/em> disadvantage in that included lyrics would have to be read either sideways or word-by-word down the page.  So I don&#8217;t think it makes very much sense for anything but keyboard music, and if you want to play or sing anything else, you&#8217;ll need to learn the usual notation anyway, so I can see why it never really caught on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I discovered the existence of Klavarskribo (&#8220;keyboard writing&#8221; in Esperanto). It&#8217;s a development of musical notation intended to make playing keyboard music easier. It turns the staff 90 degrees clockwise, so the music is read top-to-bottom, with higher notes to the right and lower notes to the left, as on a keyboard. It uses a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=595\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Esperanto of Musical Notation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}