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There are a number of posts on Danbooru, like post #1482603, where there are musical notes arranged on lines with sheet music notation. However, the wiki entry of sheet music says "A sheet of paper bearing musical notes and symbols used as a reference to play a piece of music." I would like to ask if it's okay to have this changed to basically encompass any group of notes where the sheet music notation is applied.
There's staff_(music) to refer to the five lines used in music.
From wikipedia :
Sheet music is a handwritten or printed form of music notation that uses modern musical symbols; like its analogs — books, pamphlets, etc. — the medium of sheet music typically is paper (or, in earlier times, parchment), although the access to musical notation in recent years also includes presentation on computer screens. Use of the term "sheet" is intended to differentiate written music from an audio presentation, as in a sound recording, broadcast or live performance, which may involve video as well.
tl;dr: Doesn't necessarily need to be paper to count as sheet music.
But for the example you gave I would agree that staff_(music) fits better than sheet music.
Toks said:
From wikipedia :
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tl;dr: Doesn't necessarily need to be paper to count as sheet music.
I recommend using Danbooru's specific disambiguation between the two rather than the Wikipedia entry. I think it's useful to have two distinct tags for music on paper and music as part of the background or scenery.
Aside: In addition to staff (music), there's also the tag musical staff. One should probably be aliased to the other.
Staff (music) is the older tag with the greater number of posts (127 v. 14), so that one will probably win out.
On the other hand, we have musical note and not note (music), so there's greater consistency in going the other way. Also it flows better if you're using autocomplete to find tags you aren't familiar with, and you're not musical enough to automatically think of the staff as the first word to search on.
