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2. 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.

3. 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 ...

4. Sheet music - Wikipedia

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   Sheet music can be used as a record of, a guide to, or a means to perform, a song or piece of music. Sheet music enables instrumental performers who are able to read music notation (a pianist, orchestral instrument players, a jazz band, etc.) or singers to perform a song or piece. Music students use sheet music to learn about different styles ...

5. Musical notation - Wikipedia

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   Music OCR, the application of optical character recognition to interpret sheet music; Neume (plainchant notation) Pitch class; Rastrum, a five-pointed writing implement used to draw parallel staff lines across a blank piece of sheet music; Scorewriter; Semasiography; Sight-reading; Sheet music; Time unit box system, a notation system useful for ...

6. Rastrum - Wikipedia

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   A rastrum (pl. rastra) or raster is a five-pointed writing implement used in music manuscripts to draw parallel staff lines when drawn horizontally across a blank piece of sheet music. The word "raster" is derived from the Latin for "rake".

7. Percussion notation - Wikipedia

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   Rolls: Diagonal lines across the note stem (or above a whole note). Usually three diagonal lines denote a roll, whereas fewer would be interpreted as measured subdivisions of the note (two lines for sixteenths, one for eighths). Open hi-hat: X notehead in the hi-hat part with small o above. Closed hi-hat: X notehead in the hi-hat part with + above.