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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. Musical quotation - Wikipedia

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    Although less common, musical quotations can be found in rock music, for example Barenaked Ladies "Hello City" quotes a stanza from The Housemartins' "Happy Hour". Sampling, a foundation of hip hop music, is the reuse of a portion (or sample) of a sound recording in another recording. [11]

  4. Musical cryptogram - Wikipedia

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    It is believed that this method was first used by Josquin des Prez in his Missa Hercules Dux Ferrarie.It was named Soggetto cavato by the later theorist Zarlino.Under this scheme the vowel sounds in the text are matched to the vowel sounds of the solmization syllables of Guido of Arezzo (where 'ut' is the root, which we now call 'do').

  5. Glossary of music terminology - Wikipedia

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    At pleasure (i.e. the performer need not follow the rhythm strictly, for example in a cadenza) a prima vista lit. "at first sight". Sight-reading (i.e. played or sung from written notation without prior review of the written material; refer to the figure) a tempo

  6. Musical notation - Wikipedia

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    For example, classical performers most often use sheet music using staves, time signatures, key signatures, and noteheads for writing and deciphering pieces. But even so, there are far more systems just that, for instance in professional country music , the Nashville Number System is the main method, and for string instruments such as guitar ...

  7. Invention (musical composition) - Wikipedia

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    In music, an invention is a short composition (usually for a keyboard instrument) in two-part counterpoint. (Compositions in the same style as an invention but using three-part counterpoint are known as sinfonias. Some modern publishers call them "three-part inventions" to avoid confusion with symphonies.)

  8. Percussion notation - Wikipedia

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    Percussion notation is a type of musical notation indicating notes to be played by percussion instruments.As with other forms of musical notation, sounds are represented by symbols which are usually written onto a musical staff (or stave).

  9. Musical phrasing - Wikipedia

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    According to Andranik Tangian, [7] analytical phrasing can be quite subjective, the only point is that it should follow a certain logic. For example, Webern’s Klangfarbenmelodie-styled orchestral arrangement of Ricercar from Bach’s Musical offering demonstrates Webern’s analytical phrasing of the theme, which is quite subjective on the one hand but, on the other hand, logically consistent: