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Design your own music representation system.  The representation can be intended for performance, analysis, a digital encoding, static, dynamic, etc.

==Design Guidelines==

* Can be a practical system or an unpractical system.  
* Can be a graphical notation system for performers to read, or can be a digital representation of standard music notation, or a digital/graphical representation of a specialized repertory of music, (like the Japanese musical scores shown in class).
* Take about three hours to do this assignment.


==What to Turn in==

# Submit a one-page written description of the musical notation system, with an example.
# Describe the scope and purpose that a full-scale implementation of your system would have. In other words, what types of music would it be useful for, and what types of music would your system be impractical.
# Give an example encoding of music in your system. If the system encodes standard western musical notation, then use this example melody:

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Demonstrate your system to the class (ca. 5 minutes) on the day that the assignment is due.

==Ideas for the Creatively Challenged==

* Design a graphical notation system for music which does not need to use accidentals (such as sharps and flats).
* Design a system which can be used to type in music data quickly on a computer keyboard.
* Design a system which would be easy to perform by reading the digital data directly.
* Design a graphical system which uses color.