[xorcist]

The replied to comment seemed skeptical to treat musical notation as text. But any reasonable definition of "text" should include musical notation.

Otherwise it would be hard to include other types of obvious text, including completely mainstream ones such as Arabic. They are all strings of symbols intended for humans to read.

Feel free to disagree but I don't understand the argument here, if there is any. Lots of people read both Arabic and musical notation, it's a completely normal thing to do.

[tremon]

any reasonable definition of "text" should include musical notation

Then many a dictionary must be unreasonable [0]:

  text
    1. A discourse or composition on which a note or commentary is written;
       the original words of an author, in distinction from a paraphrase, annotation, or commentary.

    6. That part of a document (printed or electronic) comprising the words [..]
  
    7. Any communication composed of words

    n 1. the words of something written

Musical notes do not form words, and therefore are not text. (And no, definition 1 does not refer to musical notes). The written down form of music is called a score, not a text.

[0] e.g. http://dict.org/bin/Dict?Form=Dict2&Database=*&Query=text

[satvikpendem]

Anything that can be turned into a string programmatically is by definition text.

[tremon]

  4920 646f 6e27 7420 7468 696e 6b20 796f 
  7520 6861 7665 2074 686f 7567 6874 2074 
  6872 6f75 6768 2074 6865 2069 6d70 6c69 
  6361 7469 6f6e 7320 6f66 2074 6861 7420 
  7374 6174 656d 656e 742e 2042 7574 2074 
  6f20 6875 6d6f 7220 796f 752c 2063 616e 
  2079 6f75 2073 686f 7720 6d65 2077 6865 
  7265 2074 6578 7420 6973 2064 6566 696e 
  6564 2074 6861 7420 7761 7920 616e 6420 
  6578 706c 6169 6e20 7768 7920 6974 2773 
  2062 6574 7465 7220 7468 616e 2074 6865 
  2064 6963 7469 6f6e 6172 7920 6465 6669 
  6e69 7469 6f6e 3f

[satvikpendem]

I agree with you, I am disagreeing with the one that replied to you.