Simplified Music Notation

Professional Endorsements

“It has been my experience that students with learning disabilities have an extremely difficult time reading music. Consequently, I see many students with great gifts of music ability fail because they are unable to master the skill necessary to succeed. Simplified [Music] Notation seems to be a solution to success.”

Suzanne Guisasola Salvo, M.Ed.,
Director, Office of Disability Services,
Ashland University

“Your new Simplified [Music] Notation … makes outstanding and immediate sense, providing … an elegant solution to a problem which hahs preoccupied some of the best musical brains of our time. I congratulate you on your public-spiritedness in making such a compact system available to all those who might otherwise be denied access to either voice or instrument.”

Prof. Malcom Troup, DPhilMus, ARCM Toronto, FGSM, LLD, FRSA,
Concert Pianist,
Professor of Music

About the Charity

Simplified Music Notation is a patented invention by Peter Hayes George (EU 387014/0001-0010, USA D545,889S). Profits from the sale of Simplified Music Notation products in the UK will be donated to the Creative Arts Research Foundation.

Creative Arts Research Foundation is a registered charity (No. 1046414), whose objective is to research methods for the advancement of education in the art and science of music. It is our intention to encourage a greater percentage of people, including those with disabilities and learning difficulties, to become more active participants in music.

Our research involves exploring various approaches to overcoming the obstacles that stand in the way of playing instruments. For example, the use of colours, shapes and even material thickness of notes has been under exploration, not only for people with visual impairments but also for those held back by other forms of learning or physical disability.

“We support the objective of the Creative Arts Research Foundation to provide the books 'A More Rational Approach to Traditional Music Notation' free of charge to underprivileged and visually impaired people throughout the world. Simplified Music Notation, as presented in these books, makes the reading and studying of music far easier than in traditional notation as all the notes have their own intrinsic identity, as well as other advantages. This should result in encouraging a much greater percentage of people, including those with retentive memory problems and other learning disabilities, to become more active participants in music as playing any instrument is now incomparably more simple and enjoyable”.

PROF. DR. H.P.J.M. DEKKERS
Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences
 Educational Scientest, University of Nijmegen

DR. ISAAC ROITMAN
Former Dean of Research and Graduate Studies
 University of Brasilia, Brazil

PROF. DR. J.H. RAAT
Former Director
Foundation for Research and Development in Technology
 Technical University, Eindhoven

DR. G. DRIESEN
Educational Researcher
 Institute for Social Sciences, Nijmegen

DRS. D. KRISTENSEN
Educational Researcher
 Institute for Social Sciences, Nijmegen

DR. A. FREEDMAN
Former Professor
 Royal Northern College of Music Birmingham

DR. N. VERLOOP
Director of Institute of Teacher Education
 University of Leiden

DRS. P. de GRAUW
Psychotherapist
 Mental Hospital, Eindhoven

DRS. C. VERHAAK
Educational Researcher
 Institute for Social Sciences, Nijmegen

DR. J.G.C.L. LODEWIJCKS
Educational Psychologist
 University of Tilburg

DR. E. BRUIN
Educational Researcher
 Institute for Social Sciences, Nijmegen

DRS. H. VERMEULEN
Educational Researcher
 Institute for Social Sciences, Nijmegen


The Creative Arts Research Trust is registered in England and Wales as a not for profit private limited company number 6651141.

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