- Accompanist (role)
- Ad libitum
- Agenda
- Aleatoricism
- Aspect
- Balance
- Bartle types
- BCG
- Conductor (role)
- Constellation
- Constructor (role)
- Co-optionality
- Cue cards
- Dice
- Dimension
- Downbeat
- Downtime
- Elegant Game
- Emergence
- End Condition
- Event (musical event)
- Extended technique
- Facilitator
- Fighting
- Flow
- Found sound
- Gameplay flow
- Genre
- Goals
- Heteronomous Music
- Horizon of intent
- Insert game
- Inspire cards
- Instrument Preparation
- Judge (role)
- Karaoke
- King-making
- Learning curve
- Ludomusical dissonance
- Meaningful Choice
- Mechanic
- Music game
- Non-idiomatic music
- Notation Cards
- Open work
- Parameter
- Pervasive Game
- Player (role)
- Prompter (role)
- Psychographics
- Quarterbacking
- Rhythm cards
- Rhythm game
- Roles
- RPG
- Rule Cards
- Speedrun
- Stacking
- Trading
- Transition
- Upgrade
- Victory condition
- Xenochrony
- XP
- Yes, and...
This glossary entry is a draft. You can help by editing it or discussing in the comments
Cards with any sort of musical notation (e.g. Western classical) provided to players for performance.
Usage
As the Games for Music wiki strives for maximum accessibility, it's probably not a solution that you'll see here a lot, and in majority of cases it will mean that the game should be marked as "hard". However, it might be attractive both to music teachers and "serious composers", so the "external links" section will certainly grow. In both cases, the game itself quite often plays the second fiddle to cards content which should be methodically, or aesthetically centered.
As for the library, there will always be a large overlap with our score tag, but it's not the same set. We'll speak about notation cards if they serve a function of cards, like randomization, hidden information, etc. This applies to:
Obviously with graphic scores the line between notation and inspire cards will be blurred. Bigger cards that also are used for signalling between players will cross the typology towards cue cards. Let's not preoccupy ourselves with those kind of problems though. Information, collections, and best practices will apply anyway.
Hypothetically, Rhythm cards will always be a type of notation cards albeit with more or less popular notation involved.
External links
| Card Games | Christopher Walker | free | a modern card composition with CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license |
| CopyCat | Scott Hughes | sold | A call-and-response card game to teach ear training, from the author of Tonic |
| Grand Staff Flash Cards | Kasper Hviid | free | A set of helpful notation cards for treble and bass clefs |
| Musical Casino:The Major-Minor Game | Carl W. Grimm | rare | Notation cards for forming chords and hand management. |
| Rhythm Blox | Wes Crawford | sold | A rhythm game with notation cards and backing tracks |