A music notation is an almost impossibly complicated bit of drawing. Calling it a map or a diagram does not quite do the trick. Its lines encode mechanisms for the planning, composition, analysis, ...

Wong (right) and Chaw co-created a Braille music notation system to make reading music easier for the visually impaired. Photos: The Star/Sheela Chandran Music teacher and social worker Wong Siew Ngan ...

Earlier this year a story ran in the UK press which revealed that it was Heather Mills who taught her daughter music, not her ex-husband, Sir Paul McCartney, because he cannot read music notation.

Although archaeologists have found written music texts older than the Greek Epitaph of Seikilos, such as the Hurrian Songs dating back to 1400 B.C., these are incomplete. Only one Hurrian song, ...