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  2. Texture (music) - Wikipedia

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    The texture is often described in regard to the density, or thickness, and range, or width, between lowest and highest pitches, in relative terms as well as more specifically distinguished according to the number of voices, or parts, and the relationship between these voices (see Common types below). For example, a thick texture contains many ...

  3. List of scorewriters - Wikipedia

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    Impro-Visor, a GUI- and text-based scorewriter for constructing lead sheets and jazz solos on Linux, OS X, and Windows; LilyPond, a text-based scorewriter with several backends including PS, PDF and SVG; MuseScore, a WYSIWYG scorewriter for Linux, Windows, and OS X; MusiXTeX, a set of macros and fonts that allow music typesetting in TeX

  4. 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.

  5. Musical note - Wikipedia

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    Notes in it include a prime symbol below the note's letter. Names of subsequent lower octaves are preceded with "sub". Notes in each include an additional prime symbol below the note's letter. The octave starting at tenor C is called the "small" octave. Notes in it are written as lower case letters, so tenor C itself is written c in Helmholtz ...

  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. Category:Musical notation - Wikipedia

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    Shape note; Sharp (music) Sheet music; Shorthand for orchestra instrumentation; Siffernotskrift; Sight-reading; Simplified music notation; Slide (musical ornament) Slur (music) Solfège; Solmization; Sonido 13; Sori (music) Sotto voce (music) Staccato; Staff (music) Stem (music) Stentato; Svara; Swaralipi; Swing time; Sympathy (music)

  8. Piano acoustics - Wikipedia

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    All but the lowest notes of a piano have multiple strings tuned to the same frequency. The notes with two strings are called bichords, and those with three strings are called trichords. These allow the piano to have a loud attack with a fast decay but a long sustain in the attack–decay–sustain–release (ADSR) system.

  9. ABC notation - Wikipedia

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    ABC notation is a shorthand form of musical notation for computers. In basic form it uses the letter notation with a – g, A – G, and z, to represent the corresponding notes and rests, along with other elements used to place added value on these – sharp, flat, raised or lowered octave, the note length, key, and ornamentation.