When was the change from tablatures to staff notation in the history of music?

1. When was modern staff notation invented?
2. When was musical notation invented?
3. How is Western staff notation limited in its ability to describe world music?

When was modern staff notation invented?

The invention of the staff is traditionally ascribed to Guido d'Arezzo in about the year 1000, although there are earlier manuscripts in which neumes (signs from which musical notes evolved) are arranged around one or two lines in order to orient the singer. Guido used three or four lines of different colours.

When was musical notation invented?

The earliest form of musical notation can be found in a cuneiform tablet that was created at Nippur, in Babylonia (today's Iraq), in about 1400 BC. The tablet represents fragmentary instructions for performing music, that the music was composed in harmonies of thirds, and that it was written using a diatonic scale.

How is Western staff notation limited in its ability to describe world music?

Sometimes, western staff notation limited in its ability to describe world music, because of western staff notation was created through western people, then they can't totally consider the other music of countries or cultures background if it fit to the western staff notation.