Standing before a masterpiece in a hushed museum gallery, most visitors admire the brushwork, the colors, the composition. They walk away thinking they've seen everything. Yet many of the world's most ...

Even the musically illiterate can appreciate the intricate beauty of a physical piece of sheet music—though, to them, the score itself means jack shit. But even the notationally disinclined can now, ...

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