Many thanks to Wang Li for the Little Swallow score and to Monique Palomares for creating the midi music. You can see the song page for Little Swallow with the lyrics, midi and staff sheet music by clicking on the link. If you’re interested in more details, you can read about Chinese numbered musical notation on Wikipedia. I can see an advantage to musicians using the Chinese numbered notation as a type of shorthand. Here you can hear the midi tune of Little Swallow A line under the number cuts it in half – so if it has one line under it – it’s an eighth note.Ī dash after the number adds a quarter note – so if it has one dash after it – it’s a half note. It’s called numbered musical notation (”jianpu” in Chinese – simple sheet music) and used to be the only musical score for the ordinary people.”Ī dot above or below a number raises or lowers the note an octave.Ī plain number is a quarter note. She said, “In China this kind of sheet music consist of numbers 1-7 and is quite popular: I asked Wang Li, who sent me the song, about it. It consisted of numbers with dots and lines. The sheet music was very different from the notes on staffs that we use in the West. I recently received a song from China called Little Swallow.
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