Chinese And Western Musical Notation

"Note is the tool of documenting music just as script is the tool of recording human language." The birth of notation makes music go down in history while the occurrence facilitates the spread language."Tradition is a river." Then the notation is one part of it. It stems from the river and flows forward with it. No matter in China or in the West, the occurrence of the notation makes it possible for the music's record, transmission and spread. Hence , it has played a pretty significant role in the history music development.This paper will illustrate that the occurrence and development of notation has a close tie with those of human society. The notation has realized the possibility transmission of music, which makes notation improved continually.The introduction touches upon the birth and development of notation, and shows that the birth of notation is the product of development of human society. However, notation shows a different face in different people, region, era and different historic culture background. Since the appearance of the notation, the study on it has never been stopped.Section I. Notation of China and Europe is enumerated. It's development and variation.Section II. It's analysis in terms of sociology, anthropology and history.Section III. Explanation of the role played by notation in music inheritance.Section IV. The argumentation of cultural connotation of notation.Section V. The argumentation of conducting notation teaching in the current music education.