Editing Sheet music (section)

=== Infiltration of western staff notation in other cultures===
Outside modern western cultures there exists a wide variety of systems of musical notation, each adapted to the particular needs of the musical cultures in question, and some highly evolved classical musics do not use notation at all (or only in rudimentary forms as [[mnemonic]] aids) such as the [[khyal]] and [[dhrupad]] forms of Northern India. Western [[musical notation]] systems are ill-equipped to describe musics of other types, such as the courtly forms of Japanese [[gagaku]], Indian dhrupad, or the percussive music of [[ewe drumming]]{{Citation needed|date=February 2025}}. The infiltration of Western staff notation into these cultures has been described by the musicologist [[Alain Daniélou]]<ref>{{Cite book|last=Daniélou|first=Alain|author-link=Alain Daniélou|title=Sacred Music: Its Origins, Powers, and Future : Traditional Music in Today's World|publisher=Indica Books|year=2003|isbn=8186569332|location=Varanasi, India}}{{page needed|date=June 2021}}</ref>  and [[Reebee Garofalo]]<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Garofalo|first=Reebee|date=1993|title=Whose World, What Beat: The Transnational Music Industry, Identity, and Cultural Imperialism|jstor=43615564|journal=The World of Music|volume=35|number=2|pages=16–32}}</ref> as a process of [[cultural imperialism]].