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2. Baroque music - Wikipedia

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   Baroque music (UK: / b ə ˈ r ɒ k / or US: / b ə ˈ r oʊ k /) refers to the period or dominant style of Western classical music composed from about 1600 to 1750. [1] The Baroque style followed the Renaissance period, and was followed in turn by the Classical period after a short transition (the galant style).

3. Mordent - Wikipedia

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   The precise meaning of mordent has changed over the years. In the Baroque period, a mordent was a lower mordent and an upper mordent was a pralltriller or schneller.In the 19th century, however, the name mordent was generally applied to what is now called the upper mordent, and the lower mordent became known as an inverted mordent.

4. Ornament (music) - Wikipedia

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   Practice, notation, and nomenclature vary widely for all of these ornaments; that is to say, whether, by including the symbol for a mordent in a musical score, a composer intended the direction of the additional note (or notes) to be played above or below the principal note written on the sheet music varies according to when the piece was ...

5. Slide (musical ornament) - Wikipedia

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   Notation The slide ( Schleifer in German, Coulé in French, Superjectio in Latin) [ 1 ] is a musical ornament often found in baroque musical works, but used during many different periods. [ 1 ] It instructs the performer to begin two or three scale steps below the marked note and "slide" upward—that is, move stepwise diatonically between the ...

6. Figured bass notation - Wikipedia

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   Figured bass is musical notation in which numerals and symbols appear above or below (or next to) a bass note. The numerals and symbols (often accidentals ) indicate intervals , chords , and non-chord tones that a musician playing piano , harpsichord , organ , or lute (or other instruments capable of playing chords) should play in relation to ...

7. Trill (music) - Wikipedia

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   In most modern musical notation, a trill is generally indicated with the letters tr (or sometimes simply t) [2] above the trilled note. This has sometimes been followed by a wavy line, and sometimes, in the baroque and early classical periods, [2] the wavy line was used on its own.

8. List of musical symbols - Wikipedia

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   Musical symbols are marks and symbols in musical notation that indicate various aspects of how a piece of music is to be performed. There are symbols to communicate information about many musical elements, including pitch, duration, dynamics, or articulation of musical notes; tempo, metre, form (e.g., whether sections are repeated), and details about specific playing techniques (e.g., which ...

9. Musical notation - Wikipedia

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   Jeongganbo musical notation system. Jeongganbo is a traditional musical notation system created during the time of Sejong the Great that was the first East Asian system to represent rhythm, pitch, and time. [20] [21] Among various kinds of Korean traditional music, Jeong-gan-bo targets a particular genre, Jeong-ak (정악, 正樂).