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A grid of boxes with pitch names placed inside.
Also known as: Jeonggan notation, Korean box notation, Grid notation, Characters in ruled boxes
Jeongganbo puts pitch names in a column of boxes, and duration is encoded by how much of a box a note occupies — a note filling one box lasts one beat, two notes sharing a box last half each. It was the first East Asian notation to record duration spatially, invented under King Sejong in the fifteenth century.
Denotes the Korean notation writing pitch names inside a vertical column of ruled boxes.
Contexts: Music
Encodes duration spatially: the proportion of a box a note occupies is its length, so rhythm is read from layout rather than from a symbol.
Contexts: Music
Was devised in the fifteenth century during the reign of King Sejong, making it among the earliest notations anywhere to record duration by position.
Contexts: Music
A vertical column of square ruled cells, each containing one or more pitch characters, the vertical space a character occupies within its cell indicating its duration.