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  2. Cadenza - Wikipedia

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    Thus an improvised cadenza is indicated in written notation by a fermata in all parts. A cadenza will usually occur over either the final or penultimate note in a piece, the lead-in (German: Eingang), [2] or the final or penultimate note in an important subsection of a piece. A cadenza can also be found before a final coda or ritornello. [3]

  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. 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 ...

  5. Cadence - Wikipedia

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    Cadences often include (and may be emphasized or signalled by) a change in the prevailing rhythmic pattern; in such cases the final note of the cadence usually takes more time (a longer note value, or followed by a rest, or both), and within a piece of music the cadences may also share a rhythmic pattern that is characteristic of the cadences ...

  6. Musical improvisation - Wikipedia

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    The Verdian "full-stop" cadenza; Arias without "full-stop": ballate, canzoni, and romanze; Ornamentation of internal cadences; Melodic variants (interpolated high notes, acciaccature, rising two-note "slide") Strophic variation and the problem of the cabaletta; Facilitations (puntature, simplification of fioratura, etc.) Recitative

  7. Fermata - Wikipedia

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    A fermata (Italian: [ferˈmaːta]; "from fermare, to stay, or stop"; [2] also known as a hold, pause, colloquially a birdseye or cyclops eye, or as a grand pause when placed on a note or a rest) is a symbol of musical notation indicating that the note should be prolonged beyond the normal duration its note value would indicate. [3]

  8. Musical notation - Wikipedia

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    The duration (note length or note value) is indicated by the form of the note-head or with the addition of a note-stem plus beams or flags. A stemless hollow oval is a whole note or semibreve, a hollow rectangle or stemless hollow oval with one or two vertical lines on both sides is a double whole note or breve.

  9. Glossary of music terminology - Wikipedia

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    Rapid single alternation of a note with the note immediately below or above it in the scale, sometimes further distinguished as lower mordent and upper mordent. morendo Dying (i.e. dying away in dynamics, and perhaps also in tempo) mosso Moved, moving; used with a preceding più or meno, for faster or slower respectively moto