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2. 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 ...

3. Figured bass notation - Wikipedia

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   In the 20th and 21st century, figured bass is also sometimes used by classical musicians as a shorthand way of indicating chords when a composer is sketching out ideas for a new piece or when a music student is analyzing the harmony of a notated piece of music (e.g., a Bach chorale or a Chopin piano prelude). Figured bass is not generally used ...

4. Ornament (music) - Wikipedia

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   Practice, notation, and nomenclature vary widely for all of these ornaments; that is to say, whether, by including the symbol for a mordent in a musical score, a composer intended the direction of the additional note (or notes) to be played above or below the principal note written on the sheet music varies according to when the piece was ...

5. Musical note - Wikipedia

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   For instance, the standard 440 Hz tuning pitch is named A 4 in scientific notation and instead named a′ in Helmholtz notation. Meanwhile, the electronic musical instrument standard called MIDI doesn't specifically designate pitch classes, but instead names pitches by counting from its lowest note: number 0 ( C −1 ≈ 8.1758 Hz) ; up ...

6. Category:Musical notation - Wikipedia

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   Shakuhachi musical notation; 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 ...

7. Musical notation - Wikipedia

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   Braille music is a complete, well developed, and internationally accepted musical notation system that has symbols and notational conventions quite independent of print music notation. It is linear in nature, similar to a printed language and different from the two-dimensional nature of standard printed music notation.

8. Marcato - Wikipedia

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   ; Italian for marked) is a musical instruction indicating a note, chord, or passage is to be played louder or more forcefully than the surrounding music. The instruction may involve the word marcato itself written above or below the staff or it may take the form of the symbol ∧, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] an open vertical wedge.

9. Slide (musical ornament) - Wikipedia

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   Notation The slide ( Schleifer in German, Coulé in French, Superjectio in Latin) [ 1 ] is a musical ornament often found in baroque musical works, but used during many different periods. [ 1 ] It instructs the performer to begin two or three scale steps below the marked note and "slide" upward—that is, move stepwise diatonically between the ...