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Bar chimes by Meinl. A mark tree (also known as a nail tree, chime tree, or bar chimes) is a percussion instrument used primarily for musical color. [1] It consists of many small chimes—typically cylinders of solid aluminum or brass tubing about 3/8" in diameter—of varying lengths, hung from a bar.
In music, a glissando (Italian: [ɡlisˈsando]; plural: glissandi, abbreviated gliss.) is a glide from one pitch to another (Play ⓘ). It is an Italianized musical term derived from the French glisser, "to glide". In some contexts, it is equivalent to portamento, which is a continuous, seamless glide between notes. In other contexts, it refers ...
The term "glissando" sets the focus on the movement between two tones and there are many ways of executing a "glissando" including the possibility that the tones at the beginning and the end are of no musical importance at all, which is absolutely against the idea of the portamento. Of course singers can produce a "glissando" too.
A bell tree, also known as tree bells [1] or Chinese bell tree [2] (often confused with the mark tree), is a percussion instrument, consisting of vertically nested inverted metal bowls. The bowls, placed on a vertical rod, are arranged roughly in order of pitch. The number of bowls can vary between approximately 14 and 28.
Valerio Dorico (Brescia, sixteenth century - Rome, late sixteenth century) was an Italian typographer. [1] Over a period of sixteen years (1539–1555) he printed numerous editions, pioneering the use of a single impression printing process first developed in England and France.
Dorico (/ ˈ d ɒ r ɪ k oʊ /) is scoring software for macOS, Windows and iPadOS. Along with Finale and Sibelius , it is one of the three leading professional-level music notation programs. [ 2 ] [ needs update ] Dorico is developed by Steinberg , a subsidiary of Yamaha, [ 3 ] and its development team consists of most of the former core ...
In the first example, Rodolfo's first aria in La sonnambula (1831), the portamento is indicated by the slur between the third and fourth notes. The second example, Judit's first line in Bluebeard's Castle (1912) by composer Béla Bartók, employs an inclining, wavy line between the fourth and fifth notes to indicate a continuous, steady rise in pitch.
In music, the dynamics of a piece are the variation in loudness between notes or phrases.Dynamics are indicated by specific musical notation, often in some detail.However, dynamics markings require interpretation by the performer depending on the musical context: a specific marking may correspond to a different volume between pieces or even sections of one piece.