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  2. Musical notation - Wikipedia

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    For example, classical performers most often use sheet music using staves, time signatures, key signatures, and noteheads for writing and deciphering pieces. But even so, there are far more systems just that, for instance in professional country music , the Nashville Number System is the main method, and for string instruments such as guitar ...

  3. Transcription (music) - Wikipedia

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    A J.S. Bach keyboard piece transcribed for guitar. In music, transcription is the practice of notating a piece or a sound which was previously unnotated and/or unpopular as a written music, for example, a jazz improvisation or a video game soundtrack.

  4. Glossary of music terminology - Wikipedia

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    Relating to music produced by instruments, as opposed to electric or electronic means ad libitum (commonly ad lib; Latin) At liberty (i.e. the speed and manner of execution are left to the performer. It can also mean improvisation.) adagietto Fairly slowly (but faster than adagio) adagio Slowly adagissimo Very, very slowly affannato, affannoso ...

  5. Musical form - Wikipedia

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    In music, form refers to the structure of a musical composition or performance.In his book, Worlds of Music, Jeff Todd Titon suggests that a number of organizational elements may determine the formal structure of a piece of music, such as "the arrangement of musical units of rhythm, melody, and/or harmony that show repetition or variation, the arrangement of the instruments (as in the order of ...

  6. Musical phrasing - Wikipedia

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    For example, accelerating the tempo or prolonging a note may add tension. A phrase is a substantial musical thought, which ends with a musical punctuation called a cadence. Phrases are created in music through an interaction of melody, harmony, and rhythm. [3]

  7. Sentence (music) - Wikipedia

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    For example, Stewart Macpherson defines a musical sentence as "the smallest period in a musical composition that can give in any sense the impression of a complete statement." [ 1 ] It "may be defined as a period containing two or more phrases, and most frequently ending with some form of perfect cadence ."

  8. Musical syntax - Wikipedia

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    (3)As described above (Does music have a syntax?), music has a hierarchical structure in terms of pitch organization and organization of tensioning and releasing in music. Pitch organization concerning chords means, that in a musical phrase the tonic is the most stable chord and experienced as the resting point.

  9. Transposition (music) - Wikipedia

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    Transposition example from Koch [1] Play top ⓘ Play bottom ⓘ.In this chromatic transposition, the melody on the first line is in the key of D, while the melody on the second line is identical except that it is a major third lower, in the key of B ♭.