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  2. List of musical symbols - Wikipedia

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    Bracket A bracket is used to connect two or more lines of music that sound simultaneously. In contemporary usage it usually connects staves of individual instruments (e.g., flute and clarinet ; two trumpets ; etc.) or multiple vocal parts, whereas the brace connects multiple parts for a single instrument (e.g., the right-hand and left-hand ...

  3. Glossary of music terminology - Wikipedia

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    The term Grand ballabile is used if nearly all participants (including principal characters) of a particular scene in a full-length work perform a large-scale dance. bar, or measure unit of music containing a number of beats as indicated by a time signature; also the vertical bar enclosing it barbaro

  4. Free time (music) - Wikipedia

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    The usage of free time is almost absent in popular music. The Allman Brothers Band was known for occasionally dropping into free time segments on their lengthy live jams. An example can be found on "Whipping Post" on the live album At Fillmore East. The band drops into a lengthy free time at the 10-minute mark, before coming back into 11 8 time ...

  5. Category:Musical terminology - Wikipedia

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    Anarâškielâ; العربية; Aragonés; Azərbaycanca; বাংলা; Башҡортса; Беларуская; Беларуская (тарашкевіца)

  6. Slur (music) - Wikipedia

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    For vocal music, slurs are usually used to mark notes which are sung to a single syllable . A slur can be extended over many notes, sometimes encompassing several bars. In extreme cases, composers are known to write slurs which are near-impossible to achieve; in that case the composer wishes to emphasise that the notes should be performed with ...

  7. Bracket - Wikipedia

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    Other minor bracket shapes exist, such as (for example) slash or diagonal brackets used by linguists to enclose phonemes. [ 4 ] Brackets are typically deployed in symmetric pairs, and an individual bracket may be identified as a 'left' or 'right' bracket or, alternatively, an "opening bracket" or "closing bracket", [ 5 ] respectively, depending ...

  8. Ornament (music) - Wikipedia

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    Extreme example of ornamentation as a fioritura from Chopin's Nocturne in D ♭ major. In music, ornaments or embellishments are musical flourishes—typically, added notes—that are not essential to carry the overall line of the melody (or harmony), but serve instead to decorate or "ornament" that line (or harmony), provide added interest and variety, and give the performer the opportunity ...

  9. Numbered musical notation - Wikipedia

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    The numbered musical notation (simplified Chinese: 简谱; traditional Chinese: 簡譜; pinyin: jiǎnpǔ; lit. 'simplified notation', not to be confused with the integer notation) is a cipher notation system used in mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and to some extent in Japan, Indonesia (in a slightly different format called "not angka"), Malaysia, Australia, Ireland, the United Kingdom ...