Eli5 How did standard music notation become ubiquitous?

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Sharps, flats, etc. It seems so needlessly confusing to a layman.

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This is less specifically music related, but another reason music notation stuck around is that its useful to have a singular standard of notation. This applies to many industries like electrical symbols, architectural symbols etc. In the age of the internet and globalisation you can’t really work with a few hundred/thousand different ways to express a thing.

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