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    Musical notation is any system used to visually represent music. Systems of notation generally represent the elements of a piece of music that are considered...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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    Systems of musical notation have been in use in China for over two thousand years. Different systems have been used to record music for bells and for the...
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    to present the Académie des Sciences with a new system of numbered musical notation he believed would make his fortune. His system, intended to be compatible...
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    or other symbols. Ancient Greek Musical Notation is a Unicode block containing symbols representing musical notations used in ancient Greece. The following...
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    pitch notation (SPN), also known as American standard pitch notation (ASPN) and international pitch notation (IPN), is a method of specifying musical pitch...
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  • and analysis. Notes may be visually communicated by writing them in musical notation. Notes can distinguish the general pitch class or the specific pitch...
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  • into music. Composers often rely on graphic notation in experimental music, where standard musical notation can be ineffective. Other uses include pieces...
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  • Staff (music) (redirect from Staff notation)
    In Western musical notation, the staff (UK also stave; plural: staffs or staves), also occasionally referred to as a pentagram, is a set of five horizontal...
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  • specific musical notation, often in some detail. However, dynamics markings require interpretation by the performer depending on the musical context:...
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    language. For a more complete table and explanation, see Musical note. Western letter pitch notation has the virtue of identifying discrete pitches, but among...
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    Znamenny Musical Notation is a Unicode block containing characters for Znamenny musical notation from Russia. Few fonts support this block as of 2021...
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  • Siteswap notation represents a juggling pattern as a sequence of numbers Singmaster notation, to represent Rubik's Cube moves Musical notation permits...
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  • the intended characters. Musical Symbols is a Unicode block containing characters for representing modern musical notation. Fonts that support it include...
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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...
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  • letter. In the notation above and below, the standard double-flat symbol is used to accommodate as far as possible the modern musical convention that...
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  • Tenuto (section Notation)
    In musical notation, tenuto (Italian, past participle of tenere, "to hold"), written as a horizontal bar above or below a note, is a direction for the...
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  • scorewriter, or music notation program is software for creating, editing and printing sheet music. A scorewriter is to music notation what a word processor...
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  • Thumbnail for Helmholtz pitch notation
    Helmholtz pitch notation is a system for naming musical notes of the Western chromatic scale. Fully described and normalized by the German scientist Hermann...
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  • Byzantine Musical Symbols block: Byzantine music Musical Symbols (Unicode block) Ancient Greek Musical Notation (Unicode block) Znamenny Musical Notation (Unicode...
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    printed scores play in classical music. Although a musical composition often uses musical notation and has a single author, this is not always the case...
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    Music theory (redirect from Musical theory)
    United States of America, often include elements of musical acoustics, considerations of musical notation, and techniques of tonal composition (harmony and...
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    Music (redirect from Musical Interpretation)
    000 years. It has its own unique systems of musical notation, as well as musical tuning and pitch, musical instruments and styles or genres. Chinese music...
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  • figured bass, widely used in the Baroque era. numbered musical notation, a musical notation that use numbers characters instance of graphical symbols...
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    Shakuhachi musical notation is a traditional tablature-style method of transcribing shakuhachi music. A number of systems exist for notating shakuhachi...
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    Neume (redirect from Neumatic notation)
    element of Western and some Eastern systems of musical notation prior to the invention of five-line staff notation. The earliest neumes were inflective marks...
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    Earliest Musical Notation", Music and Letters 52 (1971): 365–82; and Raoul Gregory Vitale, "La Musique suméro-accadienne: gamme et notation musicale"...
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  • Sheet music (redirect from Sheet notation)
    printed form of musical notation that uses musical symbols to indicate the pitches, rhythms, or chords of a song or instrumental musical piece. Like its...
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