[mazelife]

> Because the music of the past was written in a notation that’s different from that used today, it’s necessary to translate and input every mark of the original score – notes, dynamics and other expressive marks – into a music notation software to produce a modern score that can be easily read by today’s musicians.

I guess the key word is easily read. That score looks perfectly readable to me, although modern musicians might find the spacing somewhat cramped

[seanhunter]

Yeah. There is a whole academic and performance culture around historical music, and it's taught at music conservatoires and colleges. My wife for example plays and teaches music from the medieval, renaissance and baroque period extensively so I'm actually typing this in a room with shelves and shelves of facsimilies of scores from those periods all in original notation. With a bit of practise and training, people read this stuff just fine. From the Renaissance on there are lots of surviving treatises so we have a very good idea how they were performed etc and can in many cases be pretty confident that we're performing things pretty close to how they were done in the time.

[ipsum2]

This is quite modern music notation. I expected something like neume notation, which I first saw painted on a mural inside a McDonalds, oddly enough.