ocr: - - - AUSI - - - - - - a - FHEOR à 1 - Music notation as we now know it has evolved over many centuries. Notation Play Before the introduction of the modern musical staff, pitches and rhythms were 1of16 notated using imprecise methods. 6 One such method used neumes, little squiggles and symbols put over words that gave a general idea of when the melody should go up or down in pitch. Summary This type of: singing was called chant. Every chant was to be sung in one oft the modes you learned about in Lesson 4( (Tonality). By placing 1 line in the music to represent C, a musician could determine w ...