Musical notation

Quality:

Musical notation - graphic writing of musical parameters. Article “Musical notation” in English Wikipedia has 74.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 53 references and 40 sections.

This article has the best quality in Georgian Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

In June 2026 the article “Musical notation” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 7 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Musical notation”, its content was written by 598 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2125 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 997 times in English Wikipedia and cited 6937 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #244 in April 2002
• Global: #380 in April 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #2505 in January 2015
• Global: #2894 in September 2020

There are 40 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Georgian (ka) მუსიკალური ნოტაცია		78.1556
2	English (en) Musical notation		74.6252
3	Portuguese (pt) Notação musical		71.2541
4	German (de) Notation (Musik)		62.462
5	Finnish (fi) Nuottikirjoitus		61.4775
6	Chinese (zh) 音樂記譜法		53.9248
7	Catalan (ca) Notació musical		48.9488
8	Basque (eu) Musika-notazio		48.1333
9	Esperanto (eo) Muzika notacio		46.7774
10	Swedish (sv) Musiknotation		43.1211

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Musical notation		6 860 794
2	Spanish (es) Notación musical		3 886 705
3	Indonesian (id) Notasi musik		2 999 067
4	German (de) Notation (Musik)		1 881 981
5	Portuguese (pt) Notação musical		1 612 506
6	French (fr) Notation musicale		1 017 505
7	Polish (pl) Notacja muzyczna		740 646
8	Russian (ru) Музыкальная нотация		617 387
9	Italian (it) Notazione musicale		381 681
10	Hungarian (hu) Kottaírás		300 734

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Musical notation		15 517
2	German (de) Notation (Musik)		2 645
3	Spanish (es) Notación musical		2 132
4	French (fr) Notation musicale		1 348
5	Portuguese (pt) Notação musical		905
6	Indonesian (id) Notasi musik		856
7	Polish (pl) Notacja muzyczna		831
8	Russian (ru) Музыкальная нотация		737
9	Chinese (zh) 音樂記譜法		686
10	Finnish (fi) Nuottikirjoitus		549

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Musical notation		598
2	German (de) Notation (Musik)		274
3	French (fr) Notation musicale		194
4	Spanish (es) Notación musical		166
5	Portuguese (pt) Notação musical		78
6	Italian (it) Notazione musicale		76
7	Russian (ru) Музыкальная нотация		71
8	Dutch (nl) Muzieknotatie		70
9	Hungarian (hu) Kottaírás		55
10	Indonesian (id) Notasi musik		47

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Musical notation		3
2	German (de) Notation (Musik)		2
3	Catalan (ca) Notació musical		1
4	French (fr) Notation musicale		1
5	Arabic (ar) تدوين موسيقي		0
6	Bulgarian (bg) Нотен запис		0
7	Czech (cs) Notace (hudba)		0
8	Danish (da) Notation (musik)		0
9	Greek (el) Μουσική σημειογραφία		0
10	Esperanto (eo) Muzika notacio		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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