Take a Quick Trip Through The History of Sheet Music – A Fun Infographic
From stone to sheets to iPads, the portability of sheet music certainly has improved in the past 5000 years or so. Take a look at other ways notation, sheet music and sheet music publishing have advanced from ancient Mesopotamian beginnings to today.
Just like any language, musical notation has evolved over time. The stave, clefs, notes, accidentals, dynamics and other building blocks that we today recognize as notation didn’t always exist. Similarly, it wasn’t always as easy as downloading the sheet music you want in the key you need from anywhere. (Yes, those were dark times, indeed.)
From stone to sheets to iPads, the portability of sheet music certainly has improved in the past 5000 years or so. Take a look at other ways notation, sheet music and sheet music publishing have advanced from ancient Mesopotamian beginnings to today.
Click here for a printable PDF version. Click here to view the infographic on a mobile device.
What’s the last piece of notation you played? Other than traditional sheet music, what types of notation do you read regularly (tabs, chord charts, etc)? Share in the comments below!