Music Theory: Basics of Pitch and Notation

Scott Cosentino
4 min readDec 6, 2020

Musical notation is a set of symbols that we use to communicate the sounds we want a player to create on their instrument. It can be seen as the language of music and is core to understanding most topics in music theory. We will start this article by seeing how notes are arranged on the piano. After this, we can…

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