Here is an example of Middle Eastern music notation. The same piece as first notated - it was one of the first fully notated pieces ever in that tradition - and a transcription of it using modern conventions.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArquhP9siE4

http://www.mikeouds.com/messageboard/files.php?pid=94026&aid=25910

The original presented in the YouTube clip (by a Pole known as "Ali Ufki" at the Ottoman court) is in Western-ish staff notation, written right to left.