The earliest form of musical notation can be found in a cuneiform tablet that was created at Nippur, in Babylonia (today's Iraq), in about 1400 BC. The tablet represents fragmentary instructions for performing music, that the music was composed in harmonies of thirds, and that it was written using a diatonic scale.

When was the first note created?

The first known banknote was first developed in China during the Tang and Song dynasties, starting in the 7th century. Its roots were in merchant receipts of deposit during the Tang dynasty (618–907), as merchants and wholesalers desired to avoid the heavy bulk of copper coinage in large commercial transactions.

What year did graphic notation begin?

Modern graphic notation is open, can offer flexibility, and allow the performer to interpret the composer's ideas. It all started around 840 C.E. when a former monk named Aurelian of Réôme created one of the first examples of Western musical notation.