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Though the notion of music notes may seem like an integral, necessary part of any system for creating and performing music, it is less intuitive than the casual, non musically inclined listener might suppose, being more a part of the history of how the modern world has quantified and systematized various aspects of native human culture than an implied part of the basic existence of music. The method through which musical notes are arrived at, represented and accessed by musicians can vary widely between different regions, and the way in which they came to take their present-day form is one that took a considerable portion of time to unfold. A survey of the development of human artistic and intellectual culture throughout history will necessarily include some coverage of the ways in which music notes have been created as ideal systems and as part of the practical process of playing music. The earliest forms of musical notes have been considered by musical history scholars to exist in the form of a cuneiform tablet found by an archeological team in Iraq that is felt to date from 2000 B.C.E. It is far more rudimentary and less indicative of degrees of sophistication than … Continue reading