musical notation vs notation

musical notation and notation both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
musical notation	Yes	No	No	No
notation	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, notation is a hypernym of musical notation; that is, notation is a word with a broader meaning than musical notation:

Other hypernyms of musical notation include notational system.

musical notation (noun)	notation (noun)
(music) notation used by musicians	the activity of representing something by a special system of marks or characters
	a technical system of symbols used to represent special things
	a comment or instruction (usually added)