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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 ...
A typical five-line staff. In Western musical notation, the staff [1] [2] (UK also stave; [3] plural: staffs or staves), [1] also occasionally referred to as a pentagram, [4] [5] [6] is a set of five horizontal lines and four spaces that each represent a different musical pitch or in the case of a percussion staff, different percussion instruments.
These notes correspond to the white keys on the keyboard of a piano. A key signature with no sharps or flats generally indicates A minor or C major, using all natural notes with no sharps or flats. The natural sign is derived from a square b used to denote B ♮ in medieval music (in contrast with the round b denoting B ♭, which became the ...
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In music, the tonic is the first scale degree of the diatonic scale (the first note of a scale) and the tonal center or final resolution tone [1] that is commonly used in the final cadence in tonal (musical key-based) classical music, popular music, and traditional music. In the movable do solfège system, the tonic note is sung as do.
Notes of G Flat. G ♭ (G-flat; also called Ges or sol bémol) is the seventh semitone of the solfège. It lies a diatonic semitone above F and a chromatic semitone below G, thus being enharmonic to F ♯ (F-sharp) or fa dièse. However, in some temperaments, it is not the same as F ♯.
In music, a thirty-second note (American) or demisemiquaver (British) is a note played for 1 ⁄ 32 of the duration of a whole note (or semibreve). It lasts half as long as a sixteenth note (or semiquaver ) and twice as long as a sixty-fourth (or hemidemisemiquaver ).