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  2. List of musical symbols - Wikipedia

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    A brace is used to connect two or more lines of music that are played simultaneously, usually by a single player, generally when using a grand staff. The grand staff is used for piano, harp, organ, and some pitched percussion instruments. [1] The brace is occasionally called an accolade in some old texts and can vary in design and style. Bracket

  3. Staff (music) - Wikipedia

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    A bracket is an additional vertical line joining staves to show groupings of instruments that function as a unit, such as the string section of an orchestra. Sometimes a second bracket is used to show instruments grouped in pairs, such as the first and second oboes or first and second violins in an orchestra. [ 10 ]

  4. Glossary of music terminology - Wikipedia

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    triplet (shown with a horizontal bracket and a '3') Three notes in the place of two, used to subdivide a beat. triste Sad, wistful tronco, tronca Broken off, truncated troppo Too much; usually seen as non troppo, meaning moderately or, when combined with other terms, not too much, such as allegro [ma] non troppo (fast but not too fast) turn

  5. Bracket - Wikipedia

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    A bracket is either of two tall fore- or back-facing punctuation marks commonly used to isolate a segment of text or data from its surroundings. [3] They come in four main pairs of shapes, as given in the box to the right, which also gives their names, that vary between British and American English. [1] "

  6. List of typographical symbols and punctuation marks - Wikipedia

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    Brackets: Angle bracket, Parenthesis • Bullet: Interpunct ‸ ⁁ ⎀ Caret (proofreading) Caret (computing) (^) Chevron (non-Unicode name) Caret, Circumflex, Guillemet, Hacek, Glossary of mathematical symbols ^ Circumflex (symbol) Caret (The freestanding circumflex symbol is known as a caret in computing and mathematics)

  7. Tuplet - Wikipedia

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    In music, a tuplet (also irrational rhythm or groupings, artificial division or groupings, abnormal divisions, irregular rhythm, gruppetto, extra-metric groupings, or, rarely, contrametric rhythm) is "any rhythm that involves dividing the beat into a different number of equal subdivisions from that usually permitted by the time-signature (e.g., triplets, duplets, etc.)" [1] This is indicated ...

  8. 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 ...

  9. Musical notation - Wikipedia

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    Musical notation is any system used to visually represent music. Systems of notation generally represent the elements of a piece of music that are considered important for its performance in the context of a given musical tradition. The process of interpreting musical notation is often referred to as reading music.