Patent ID: 8039722

Claim:
A method for visually expressing music, the method comprising: marking a region of a stave to identify a musical note's pitch, wherein the stave includes four lines each of which is parallel or substantially parallel to the other three lines, and each of which defines at least three regional positions where a mark can be made to identify a musical note's pitch, wherein the stave includes at least twelve regional positions where a mark can be made to identify a musical note's pitch, and each of the at least twelve regional positions corresponds to a unique pitch of a musical note within a musical octave; and marking the region of the stave to also identify the duration of the musical note, wherein; if the musical note's duration is more than one beat in the musical note's respective measure, then marking the stave's region to identify the musical note's duration includes an Arabic numeral adjacent the mark that identifies the musical note's pitch, and if musical note's duration is less than one beat in the musical note's respective measure, then marking the stave's region to identify the musical note's duration includes: forming a single flag, extending from the mark that identifies the musical note's pitch, if the musical note is a half note, forming two flags, extending parallel to each other and from the mark that identifies the musical note's pitch, if the musical note is a quarter note, forming three flags, each extending parallel to the others and from the mark that identifies the musical note's pitch, if the musical note is an eighth note, and forming four flags, each extending parallel to the others and from the mark that identifies the musical note's pitch, if the musical note is a sixteenth note.