alt Hacker NewsThe traditional concept of notes (and accessory ones like scales and traditional notation) marks the boundary between "traditional" music theory, that treats notes as the final result (when you have notes written down, it's only a matter of concretely playing them with a given instrument) and theory of electronic synthesis, which treats notes as an input, both optional and taken for granted, and audio signals as the product.
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Rochus • 12/09/2024
Also notation systems were further developed. Many famous composers came up with their own scores for their electronic or electro-acoustic compositions (see e.g. Xenakis or Stockhausen).
Traditional music didn't even have the concept of notes in the way modern music does. Of course as modern music was developing for hundreds of years, perhaps thousands, and as they did that they started taking common themes in traditional music and calling them notes, but real traditional musicians can't think of notes in the same was as modern music does.