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and of its relation to the language in which it is written,
must deal with the written language as a system in itself,
as well as with the spoken one.
Albert Einstein, in his Short History of Music (p. 20), offers a
further vista of these changes towards the visual organization
of musical structures in the Middle Ages:
The music being purely vocal, the notation dispensed with
indications of rhythm; but it possessed an immediate
intelligibility that was lacking in the Greek system, since it
actually gave a visual representation of the rise and fall of
melody. It became the sure foundation on which modern
notation was to be built; . . .
Einstein extends his vista into the Gutenberg area itself (p. 45):