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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. Dynamics (music) - Wikipedia

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    In music, the dynamics of a piece are the variation in loudness between notes or phrases.Dynamics are indicated by specific musical notation, often in some detail.However, dynamics markings require interpretation by the performer depending on the musical context: a specific marking may correspond to a different volume between pieces or even sections of one piece.

  4. Musical notation - Wikipedia

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    Jeongganbo musical notation system. Jeongganbo is a traditional musical notation system created during the time of Sejong the Great that was the first East Asian system to represent rhythm, pitch, and time. [20] [21] Among various kinds of Korean traditional music, Jeong-gan-bo targets a particular genre, Jeong-ak (정악, 正樂).

  5. Music theory - Wikipedia

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    Illustration of hairpins in musical notation. In music, "dynamics" normally refers to variations of intensity or volume, as may be measured by physicists and audio engineers in decibels or phons. In music notation, however, dynamics are not treated as absolute values, but as relative ones.

  6. Glossary of music terminology - Wikipedia

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    Composed of the musical interval of the fourth; as in quartal harmony quarter tone Half of a semitone; a pitch division not used in most Western music notation, except in some contemporary art music or experimental music. Quarter tones are used in Western popular music forms such as jazz and blues and in a variety of non-Western musical cultures.

  7. File:Music hairpins.svg - Wikipedia

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    Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 16:24, 11 April 2017: 512 × 131 (4 KB): VSimonian: Updated calligraphy and notation style to match more closely the style commonly found in print

  8. 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 ...

  9. Musical Symbols (Unicode block) - Wikipedia

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    Musical Symbols is a Unicode block containing characters for representing modern musical notation. Fonts that support it include Bravura , Euterpe , FreeSerif , Musica and Symbola .