A few months ago I created an interactive demo webpage that lets you try out various alternative, isomorphic keyboard layouts (Janko, Wicki-Hayden).  It was an experiment to see if it could be done using JavaScript and the new HTML5 <audio> tag, and it worked!  Continue reading →

New images have been added to the site in order to more fully illustrate both versions of TwinNote.  They can be found on the home page, Scales page, and Intervals page. Continue reading →

I am pleased to announce that TwinNote has been redesigned and the website has been updated to reflect the new and improved version of it.  Take a look around the site to check it out!

The old version of TwinNote has now been re-named “White-Triangle Twinline” (which used to be its name before June of 2009) “Black-Oval Twinline”.  You can find it documented on the Music Notation Project’s site. Continue reading →

A simple piano arrangement of the children’s song “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star” is now available in TwinNote music notation.  It is the first piece of music to be offered for download in the Sheet Music section of this site.  The goal is to eventually offer a range music covering a variety of styles, instruments, and degrees of complexity.  This will provide visitors the chance to see actual musical works in TwinNote, and experience its advantages first hand.

“Twinkle, Twinkle…” was automatically transcribed (“transnotated”) from traditional music notation into TwinNote using Finale music notation software, see Software.  Let us know if there is a particular musical work or type of music you would like to see in TwinNote.

Over the past month since the launch of the TwinNote website I have expanded the Learn section to include pages with illustrations of Scales and Intervals.  The scale images are interactive allowing viewers to choose to display either major or minor scales, and whether to show the note names or the interval patterns of these scales.  A larger interactive image now appears on the site’s homepage, illustrating how several basic scales appear in TwinNote (including whole-tone, chromatic, C and A major and minor).

These images illustrate how the representation of intervals in TwinNote is clear and consistent.  This makes it easy to tell different intervals apart, and to see and understand the patterns of whole and half steps that make up the major and minor scales.

I am pleased to announce the launch of the TwinNote Music Notation website.  The site is still very much “under construction” so please check back later as more content is added.  Here is the site’s URL:

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Please link to the site and share it with anyone you think would be interested.