Notation Must Die: The Battle For How We Read Music
6 人推荐 · 跨 6 个月 · 2023–2026
中文导读
Tantacrul 长达 76 分钟的考据级长篇深度评析。他梳理了西方传统五线谱的发展史，以及钢琴卷轴、彩色音符、Jubilate 等各路挑战者方案，从信息密度与工效学角度解释了为何现存体系始终无法被颠覆。
为什么 HN 推它
讨论“重塑记谱法为何屡屡失败”时的标杆视频，既生动展示了现代记谱法的精妙妥协，又把复杂的设计权衡分析得鞭辟入里。
「无可替代的 Tantacrul 出品的精品长片，对记谱法体系做了一次极具深度的剖析。」HN 网友原话：excellent deep-ish dive into music notation by the inimitable Tantacrul
英文原摘要（HackerTube / Claude 整理）
Tantacrul's 76-minute deep dive into the history of western music notation and the many proposed replacements, such as piano rolls, colored notes and the jubilate. He explains why none have displaced the current system.
Repeatedly recommended as the definitive, well-made explanation of why attempts to reinvent music notation fail and what tradeoffs the current system makes.
HN 上的提及
for an amazing "documentary" on notation systems
the thing that I will forever remember from it was the "jubilate
The tl;dw is that piano rolls are intuitive to some degree but are inefficient at presenting information that musicians are interested in.
This is by the way a great explanation of all the attempts to make music easier to read and how they fail
excellent deep-ish dive into music notation by the inimitable Tantacrul