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  2. 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 ...

  3. Caesura - Wikipedia

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    This line includes a masculine caesura after θεὰ, a natural break that separates the line into two logical parts. Homeric lines more commonly employ feminine caesurae; this preference is observed to an even higher degree among the Alexandrian poets. [3] An example of a feminine caesura is the opening line of the Odyssey:

  4. Staff (music) - Wikipedia

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    A typical five-line staff. In Western musical notation, the staff [1] [2] (UK also stave; [3] plural: staffs or staves), [1] also occasionally referred to as a pentagram, [4] [5] [6] is a set of five horizontal lines and four spaces that each represent a different musical pitch or in the case of a percussion staff, different percussion instruments.

  5. Musical notation - Wikipedia

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    The music notation is the line of ... The earliest known examples of text referring to music in China are ... Notes in the ranges outside the central octave are ...

  6. Music - Wikipedia

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    Bikol Central; Български ... Texture is commonly described according to the number of and relationship between parts or lines of music ... For example, music ...

  7. Central Line (band) - Wikipedia

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    Central Line was an R&B and soul band from London, England. They recorded two albums with Mercury in the 1980s and had two hit singles in the United States, [ 1 ] as well as one top 40 hit in their native country.

  8. Melody - Wikipedia

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    A melody (from Greek μελῳδία (melōidía) 'singing, chanting'), [1] also tune, voice, or line, is a linear succession of musical tones that the listener perceives as a single entity. In its most literal sense, a melody is a combination of pitch and rhythm , while more figuratively, the term can include other musical elements such as ...

  9. Refrain - Wikipedia

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    A refrain (from Vulgar Latin refringere, "to repeat", and later from Old French refraindre) is the line or lines that are repeated in music or in poetry—the "chorus" of a song. Poetic fixed forms that feature refrains include the villanelle , the virelay , and the sestina .