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A wide variety of systems of musical notation outside modern eurocentric cultures exists, each adapted to the peculiar needs of the musical cultures in question, &  some highly changed classical musics do not use notation at all & only in rudimentary forms as mnemonic aids such as the khayal &  dhrupad forms of Northern India. Western musical notation systems describe only tune adapted to the needs of musical forms & instruments based on equal temperament, but are ill-equipped to describe musics of  d... more