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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. G minor - Wikipedia

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    In the Classical period, symphonies in G minor almost always used four horns, two in G and two in B ♭ alto. [2] Another convention of G minor symphonies observed in Mozart's No. 25 and Mozart's No. 40 was the choice of E-flat major , the subdominant of the relative major B ♭ , for the slow movement, with other examples including Joseph ...

  4. Pentatonic scale - Wikipedia

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    The first two phrases of the melody from Stephen Foster's "Oh! Susanna" are based on the major pentatonic scale [1]. A pentatonic scale is a musical scale with five notes per octave, in contrast to heptatonic scales, which have seven notes per octave (such as the major scale and minor scale).

  5. Jazz scale - Wikipedia

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    Two pentatonic scales common to jazz are the major pentatonic scale and the minor pentatonic scale. They are both modes of one another. The major pentatonic scale begins with a major scale and omits the fourth and the seventh scale degrees. The minor pentatonic scale uses the same notes as the major pentatonic scale, but begins on the sixth ...

  6. Nashville Number System - Wikipedia

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    Minor chords are noted with a dash after the number or a lowercase m; in the key of D, 1 is D major, and 4- or 4m would be G minor. Often in the NNS, songs in minor keys will be written in the 6- of the relative major key. So if the song was in G minor, the key would be listed as B ♭ major, and G minor chords would appear as 6-.

  7. Hungarian minor scale - Wikipedia

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    Chords that may be derived from the B Hungarian minor scale are Bm(maj7), C ♯ 7 ♭ 5, Dmaj7 ♯ 5, E ♯ 6sus2 ♭ 5, F ♯ maj7, Gmaj7, G7, A ♯ m6 and more. This scale is obtainable from the double harmonic scale by starting from the fourth degree of that scale, so the C Hungarian minor scale is equivalent to the G double harmonic scale.

  8. Stringed instrument tunings - Wikipedia

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    Cumberland Gap:G 4 E 3 A 3 D 4 E 4; G Minor: G 4 D 3 G 3 B ♭ 3 D 4; Open C: G 4 C 3 G 3 C 4 E 4; Bluegrass Banjo US via Africa Standard aka "Open G" Sawmill aka "mountain modal" Open D aka "Graveyard," "Reuben" Guitar aka "Old G," "Sandy River Belle" There are dozens of other, less common tunings. Banjolele: 4 strings 4 courses. Standard ...

  9. Tone cluster - Wikipedia

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    The second is a pentatonic (so-called black-note) cluster, indicated by the flat sign; a sharp sign would be required if the notes showing the limit of the cluster were spelled as sharps. A chromatic cluster—black and white keys together—is shown in this method by a solid bar with no sign at all. [ 12 ]