![Salmodikon-notar vaar gud](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/ff/Salmodikon-notar_vaar_gud.jpg)
Siffernotskrift ( sv, "numerical note writing") or sifferskrift is a form of
numbered musical notation
The numbered musical notation (, not to be confused with the integer notation) is a cipher notation system used in China, and to some extent in Japan (with 7th being si,), Indonesia (in a slightly different format called "not angka"), Malaysia, Au ...
in which numerals are given which correspond to musical notes on given instruments. The system was devised and used by Swedish clergyman, psalmist, and music educator
Johan Dillner (1785-1862) in the hymnal he wrote 1830 for the
psalmodicon
The psalmodicon (psalmodikon or salmodikon) is a stringed musical instrument; the most common variants have a single string. It was developed in Scandinavia for simplifying music in churches and schools, and as an alternative to the fiddle for ...
- a one-string, bowed string instrument.
[ - ''Johan Dillner (1785 — 1862) var prästman, musiker och författare. Hans främsta insats ligger på kyrkosångens område. Han byggde 1830 ett lätthanterligt stränginstrument, psalmodikon, och utarbetade en enkel siffernotskrift.'']
![Salmodikon og boge](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/71/Salmodikon_og_boge.JPG)
Unlike the Galin-Paris-Chevé numbered notation, octave shifts are described using a combination of under/overlining and a shift in the position of numbers. The first phrase of the ''Vor Gud han er saa fast en Borg'' would become the following in the Asian GPC notation:
, , 5 7 , 6 ...
References
Further reading
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*{{cite book, author=Nordic-American Psalmodikonbundet, title=Music for Psalmodikon: Written in Sifferskrift, url=https://books.google.com/books?id=by_ASgAACAAJ, year=2005, publisher=Nordic-American Psalmodikonbundet
*{{cite book, title=Melodier i sifferskrift till Sånger till lammets lof, url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QzTEZwEACAAJ, year=1876, publisher=C. A. V. Lundholm
Musical notation
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