In order for music to thrive from time to time, music needs to be shared and practiced and taught. Music is taught learnt through a process called transmission. Music can be taught by family, teachers, records, radio and by many more ways. Humans learn music from the minute they are born.
Notation systems graphically represent music. It is how the composer communicates with the music. It guides us to get inside what a composer was thinking at the time he wrote the notes. In the early periods, details were left out in the notes for the performers so the musicians would just improvise. …
