Musical Notion

Over the years many human endeavours have had the benefit of language. | Now music could be communicated efficiently, and succeeding generations would know something about the music of their ancestors. | But it is difficult to describe music in words, and even more difficult to specify a tune. | It was the development of standard musical notation in the 11th century that allowed music to be documented in a physical form. | In particular, a written language can convey a lot of information about past events, places, people and things.