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  2. Musical system of ancient Greece - Wikipedia

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    The modern note-names are given in the Helmholtz pitch notation, and the Greek note symbols are as given in the work of Egert Pöhlmann . [9] The pitches of the notes in modern notation are conventional, going back to the time of a publication by Johann Friedrich Bellermann in 1840; [10] in practice the pitches would have been somewhat lower.

  3. Greek letters used in mathematics, science, and engineering

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    Greek letters are used in mathematics, science, engineering, and other areas where mathematical notation is used as symbols for constants, special functions, and also conventionally for variables representing certain quantities. In these contexts, the capital letters and the small letters represent distinct and unrelated entities.

  4. List of letters used in mathematics, science, and engineering

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    Latin and Greek letters are used in mathematics, science, engineering, and other areas where mathematical notation is used as symbols for constants, special functions, and also conventionally for variables representing certain quantities.

  5. History of mathematical notation - Wikipedia

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    The study of mathematics as a subject in its own right began in the 6th century BC with the Pythagoreans, who coined the term "mathematics" from the ancient Greek mathema (μάθημα), meaning "subject of instruction". [15] Plato's influence was especially strong in mathematics and the sciences.

  6. Music and mathematics - Wikipedia

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    Music theory analyzes the pitch, timing, and structure of music. It uses mathematics to study elements of music such as tempo, chord progression, form, and meter. The attempt to structure and communicate new ways of composing and hearing music has led to musical applications of set theory, abstract algebra and number theory.

  7. Musical notation - Wikipedia

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    Braille music is a complete, well developed, and internationally accepted musical notation system that has symbols and notational conventions quite independent of print music notation. It is linear in nature, similar to a printed language and different from the two-dimensional nature of standard printed music notation.

  8. Neume - Wikipedia

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    The corpus of extant Byzantine music in manuscript and printed form is far larger than that of the Gregorian chant, due in part to the fact that neumes fell into disuse in the west after the rise of modern staff notation and with it the new techniques of polyphonic music, while the Eastern tradition of Greek orthodox church music and the ...

  9. Musical note - Wikipedia

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    When the range was extended down by one note, to a G, that note was denoted using the Greek letter gamma (Γ), the lowest note in Medieval music notation. [citation needed] (It is from this gamma that the French word for scale, gamme derives, [citation needed] and the English word gamut, from "gamma-ut". [citation needed])