- Accompanist (role)
- Ad libitum
- Agenda
- Aleatoricism
- Aspect
- Balance
- Bartle types
- BCG
- (Cognitive) flow
- 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
- Heteronomous Music
- Horizon of intent
- Improvisation rite
- 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 type of musical notation (including but not limited to Western-classical) provided to players for performance.
Usage
Games for Music wiki strives for maximum accessibility, so notation cards are 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" and in both cases, the game as a ruleset often plays "second fiddle" to cards content which will be aesthetically centered.
As for the library, there will be an overlap of "notation card games" with our score tag, but some of them use notation e.g. outside of cards. 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. Hypothetically, Rhythm cards will always be a type of notation cards albeit with more or less popular notation involved. Let's not drown in typology though.
External links
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Musical Casino:The Major-Minor Game | Carl W. Grimm | 1910 rare |
Notation cards for forming chords and hand management. |
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Rhythm Blox | Wes Crawford | sold |
A rhythm game with notation cards and backing tracks |
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CopyCat | Scott Hughes | 2019 sold |
A call-and-response card game to teach ear training, from the author of Tonic |
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Grand Staff Flash Cards | Kasper Hviid | 2020 free |
A set of helpful notation cards for treble and bass clefs |
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