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  2. Drum roll - Wikipedia

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    A drum roll (or roll for short) is a technique used by percussionists to produce a sustained sound for the duration of a written note. [2]All drum figures are based upon three fundamental beats, technically called roll, single stroke, and flam...Sustentation is accomplished upon wind instruments by blowing into the instrument; it is accomplished upon the violin and the allied instruments by ...

  3. List of scorewriters - Wikipedia

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    Notation Composer; NoteWorthy Composer; Overture, plus lite version Score Writer; SCORE, one of the earliest scorewriters to be used for commercial publishing, no longer developed or sold; ScoreCloud, audio, manual or MIDI input analysis to musical notation, and editor; Sibelius, Sibelius First, Sibelius Artist, and Sibelius Ultimate

  4. 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). Percussion instruments are generally grouped into two categories: pitched and non-pitched. The notation ...

  5. Glossary of music terminology - Wikipedia

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    octave above the treble staff, G 5 to G 6 [7] in altissimo Octave above the in alt octave, G 6 to G 7 in modo di In the art of, in the style of in stand An instruction to brass players to direct the bell of their instrument into the music stand, instead of up and toward the audience, thus muting the sound but without changing the timbre as a ...

  6. 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 ...

  7. Tremolo - Wikipedia

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    The roll on percussion instruments is one of the most familiar examples. On unpitched instruments, as well as timpani, it may be notated as either a tremolo or a trill-- a fact suggestive of the close relationship between tremolos and trills (see below). A rapid alternation between two different pitches is another type of tremolo.

  8. Evolution of timpani in the 18th and 19th centuries - Wikipedia

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    Again there is a continuous timpani roll from shortly after rehearsal number 58 to rehearsal number 59. In the final movement, the Agnus Dei , 8 players play pairs of timpani tuned to nearly all the diatonic notes of G major from low F ♯ to D (E is missing).

  9. LilyPond - Wikipedia

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    Denemo integrates the PDF output of LilyPond in its display, allowing some editing operations on the final typeset score. The Mutopia Project, which distributes free content sheet music, uses LilyPond to typeset its music, as does Musipedia, a collaborative music encyclopedia. Emacs' org-mode contains support for embedding LilyPond scores into ...