Notation Errors in Sheet Music ♫

[Shazz_]

In sheet music, the number of beams (lines) represents the shortness of the note, and only goes up to 64th notes (4 beams)
But in this rare case of Heinrich’s piece, there are actually notes that go up to 4096th! It’s crazy to see what they look like, with a ridiculous amount of beams, as I’ve circled. But apparently it was an error, and were supposed to have been only 1024th notes, but that’s still a very high amount!

@Karol you might find this interesting ^^

[Lorak]

4096 is a value I’d frequently see on computers as it’s a square root of 2.

[Shazz_]

@Karol Yeah, it works it off of 2, and then squares it however many times.
The score platform LilyPond claims to make even shorter notes!

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At this point I think it’s just for the fun of it, haha

[Lorak]

Shazz_ I’d doubt those extremely short notes would be long enough to be audible by an ear.

[Shazz_]

@Karol Exactly, haha

[Shazz_]

@Karol I can’t even imagine how that would look like on sheet music - it’d be super long, interfering the visibility with other staffs of instruments.

[Lorak]

Shazz_ Turns out, mathematics with computers can formulate wonders beyond visual comprehension.

[A Former User]

Shazz_ how in the actual booty flipping shit can you understand this

[Shazz_]

𝜗𝜚 rylie It’s all in the learning of music fundamentals :)
There are certain limits in some aspects of music too, like what’s shown here with the note and such. Even with a non-musician eye, some things can look unusual - in a few cases though, it could very well be the proper notation in some complex sheet music, like this section of composer Ravel’s Scarbo:

The squiggles you see are called slurs (you play each note smoothly and consecutively), and some are ridiculously notated all over the place, haha.