Numbered musical notation and so on. Dashes after a note lengthen it, each dash by the length of a quarter note. A dot after the plain or underlined note works increases its length by half, and two dots by three quarters. The underline, along with its joining, are analogous to the number of flags and beaming in standard notation. So are dotted notes. But the analogue stops at notes worth three quarter notes and beyond, where dashes are used instead. The number "0" represents the musical rest. The rules for length is similar to that of the note, except that it is customary
Chinese musical notation their inscriptions refer to. Although no notated musical compositions were found, the inscriptions indicate that the system was sufficiently advanced to allow for musical notation. Two systems of pitch nomenclature existed, one for relative pitch and one for absolute pitch. For relative pitch, a solmization system was used. The earliest music notation discovered is a Guqin music named "Jieshi Diao Youlan (Chinese: 碣石調·幽蘭)" during the 6th or 7th century. The notation is named “Wenzi Pu,” which means “written notation”. The tablature of the "guqin" is unique and complex. The older form is composed of written words describing how to play