Alternative Music Notation: "Why make it complicated, if it could be simple?"

Author Albert Brennick has gifted the Whittaker Library a copy of his book, The Alternative Music Notation.  

"Dispenses with clefs and accidentals"

Born in Amsterdam in 1924, raised in Germany, and spending half his adult life in Canada before returning to Germany, Brennick was an architect by profession.  He claims that his alternative notation "dispenses with clefs and accidentals and has proven itself in 40 years of practice".  It "represents the chromatic scale across all octaves using the traditional note symbols", and "shows all intervals in unambiguous proportions".

Are you intrigued? Disbelieving?  Have you talked about conventional notation in class, and debated whether there could be a better way?  This book might make you think.

• Araumus - Association for Research of an Alternative and Universal Music Notation