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Music drawn as a keyboard.
Also known as: Klavar notation, Keyboard-mapped notation
The notation writing keyboard music vertically on a grid matching the layout of the keys.
Writes keyboard music on a vertical grid mapped directly onto the layout of the keys.
Contexts: Language and transcription, Music
Removes the need to learn key signatures or clefs by making the page a picture of the keyboard, which is why it can be read almost immediately and why it has never displaced staff notation for anything else.
Contexts: Language and transcription, Music
Read downward rather than across, so the page turns become continuous scrolling — a layout decision that follows from the mapping rather than from taste.
Contexts: Language and transcription, Music
A vertical grid of lines corresponding to the groups of raised keys, read downward, with note heads placed where the finger goes and both hands on one continuous chart.