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  2. Four Scottish Dances - Wikipedia

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    While Arnold did not title the four pieces individually, his music publisher (Novello & Co) has provided notes, [2] which are often employed by annotators for orchestral and concert programs. The first dance, Novello observes, is "in the style of a strathspey "; the second, a "lively reel ."

  3. Afro Celt Sound System - Wikipedia

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    Volume 2: Release was released in 1999, and by the spring of 2000 it had sold more than half a million copies worldwide. Release is also used as one of the GCSE music set works in the UK that students are required to study for their exam. [15] In 2000, the group was nominated for a Grammy Award in the Best World Music category.

  4. 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 ...

  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. Second inversion - Wikipedia

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    There is therefore a tendency for movement and resolution. In notation form, it is referred to with a c following the chord position (For e.g., Ic. Vc or IVc). [citation needed] In figured bass, a second-inversion triad is a 6 4 chord (as in I 6 4), while a second-inversion seventh chord is a 4 3 chord.

  7. Musical notation - Wikipedia

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    Braille music is a complete, well developed, and internationally accepted musical notation system that has symbols and notational conventions quite independent of print music notation. It is linear in nature, similar to a printed language and different from the two-dimensional nature of standard printed music notation.

  8. Musical note - Wikipedia

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    to signify the notes of the two-octave range that was in use at the time [10] and in modern scientific pitch notation are represented as A 2 B 2 C 3 D 3 E 3 F 3 G 3 A 3 B 3 C 4 D 4 E 4 F 4 G 4. Though it is not known whether this was his devising or common usage at the time, this is nonetheless called Boethian notation.

  9. Note value - Wikipedia

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    A number of dots (n) lengthen the note value by ⁠ 2 n − 1 / 2 n ⁠ its value, so two dots add two lower note values, making a total of one and three quarters times its original duration. The rare three dots make it one and seven eighths the duration, and so on.