He cited records showing that scores of calls within minutes were marked by a notation that means no responders were dispatched.

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It can be done by ear, but musical notation helps by turning sound into a visual medium, a common language for the consistent creation and sharing of the music.

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Most of the documents produced Friday, all but 200 of which can be found here, are simply copied to Kagan without notation by her.

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By explaining the components, notation lets the player see and analyze the song, sparking ideas about how to build a new creation.

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After transcribing the original score into a music-notation program, he worked through it bar-by-bar looking for errors, deciding how to rectify them, and eventually printing separate violin and piano parts to be rehearsed and performed.

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