Musical notation was conceived for the C major scale and each line and space represents a note in this scale.

乐谱为C大音阶而构思，在这个音阶中的每一个线和间都代表一个音符。

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Unfortunately, the musical notation is by number instead of by notes and clefs.

很遗憾，音乐符号是数字而不是音符和谱号。

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Musical notation was the first graph in Western culture.

音乐记谱法是西方文化中第一种图示法。

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And musical notation is relied on more in Western music than any other musical civilization around the world.

而音乐记谱法在西方音乐中更受倚重,比在全世界其它音乐文明中地位更高

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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

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They do, but it doesn't intersect quite as intensely as musical notation does in Western cultures.

他们的确有,但他们的记谱法并没有贯穿文化的始终,比不上音乐记谱法在西方文化中的地位

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This suggests that the brain may treat musical notation as a form of language.

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Aside from basic arithmetic, nonverbal symbols were restricted to musical notation (for an elite) and playing cards.

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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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