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© 1. Giuseppe Chiari — Untitled (1979) / 2. Marcello Mercado — Variations Van Gogh, Compositions for small motors and robots (2014) / 3. Horacio Vaggione — L'Art de la Musique N°2, for 4 oscillators / 4. Giuseppe Chiari — Fluxus. 10 opere di Giuseppe Chiari (1998) / 5. Paul Chan — Score for 7th Light (2007) / 6. Dezider Tóth (Monogramista T.D) — Partitúra LXVIII. Domino samba (1976-1978) / 7. Giuseppe Chiari — Untitled (1970s) / 8. unknown / 9. Giuseppe Chiari — Violino (1980) / 10. Montez Magno – Notassons (1970) / 11. John Cage — 4′33″ (1952).
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Musical notation on sheet music consists of symbols and markings that convey pitch, duration, tempo, dynamics, articulation, and other musical instructions. These symbols include notes, rests, clefs, key signatures, time signatures, and various expressive markings such as crescendos, diminuendos, and accents.
The first recorded piece of sheet music dates back to around 2000 BCE. It was discovered in ancient Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq) and is known as the “Hurrian Hymn No. 6.” This clay tablet contains instructions for playing a musical composition using a form of musical notation, making it one of the earliest known examples of written music notation in history.
In the 18th century, musical scores were sometimes written with hidden messages or puzzles, known as “musical cryptograms.” One famous example is the B-A-C-H motif, where the letters correspond to the notes B-flat, A, C, and B-natural. Composers like Johann Sebastian Bach and later Robert Schumann and Dmitri Shostakovich used these motifs to embed their names or other words into their compositions.
John Cage, an avant-garde composer, is famous for his unconventional approach to music. One of the most interesting fun facts about his sheet music is related to his piece “4’33”. This composition is unique because it consists entirely of silence. The sheet music instructs the performer not to play their instrument for the entire duration of four minutes and thirty-three seconds. Instead, the focus is on the ambient sounds that occur in the performance environment.
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