He believes that as far back as 30,000 B.C., hunters may have used a system of notation, engraved on bone and stone, to mark phases of the Moon.

他认为，远在公元前30,000年以前，猎人可能会用一套刻在骨头和石头上的符号系统来标记月相。

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Until a common system of musical notation was developed in the ninth century, there was little uniformity or record of the music.

直到第九世纪一个共同的乐谱体系的出现之前，几乎没有任何有关音乐的纪录。

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Figure 3: an informal system drawing without well-defined modeling notation can quickly become incoherent.

图3：没有用定义明确的建模符号绘制的非正式的系统会很快松散起来。

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That made it very beautiful and there's no way in God's earth that we could replicate that to the Western system of musical notation.

那使得它十分美丽,我们却没有任何办法,用西方的乐谱方法,再现这样的音乐

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

This notation gives you everything you need to know about the system.

这种记号可以提供给你,关于这个系统的所有你需要知道的信息。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

Shashmaqom genre requires specially trained musicians because the standard notation system can record only the basic framework.

UNESCO: Intangible Cultural Heritage

This symbolic system of notation also has shown scholars how writing first developed to provide a permanent record of information rather than as a way to set down spoken language.

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