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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. List of chord progressions - Wikipedia

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    # of chords Quality 50s progression: I–vi–IV–V: 4: Major ... (Type I: Two common tones, two note moves by half step motion) V7–III7: 2: Major Montgomery–Ward

  4. Chord notation - Wikipedia

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    Extended chords add further notes to seventh chords. Of the seven notes in the major scale, a seventh chord uses only four (the root, third, fifth, and seventh). The other three notes (the second, fourth, and sixth) can be added in any combination; however, just as with the triads and seventh chords, notes are most commonly stacked – a ...

  5. Tie (typography) - Wikipedia

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    In musical score engraving, the undertie symbol is called an "elision slur" or "lyric slur", [5] and is used to indicate synalepha: the elision of two or more spoken syllables into a single note; this is in contrast to the more common melisma, the extension of a single spoken syllable over multiple sung notes.

  6. Tie (music) - Wikipedia

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    A tie is a curved line connecting two notes of the same pitch, thereby creating a durational value equal to the sum of the values of the two notes. This is necessary when a note is to be sustained over a bar line, and under certain conditions, within the same measure. [6] [a]

  7. Glossary of music terminology - Wikipedia

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    A rapid, usually unmeasured alternation between two harmonically adjacent notes (e.g. an interval of a semitone or a whole tone). A similar alternation using a wider interval is called a tremolo. triplet (shown with a horizontal bracket and a '3') Three notes in the place of two, used to subdivide a beat. triste Sad, wistful tronco, tronca

  8. Extended chord - Wikipedia

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    In music, extended chords are certain chords (built from thirds) or triads with notes extended, or added, beyond the seventh. Ninth , eleventh , and thirteenth chords are extended chords. [ 2 ] The thirteenth is the farthest extension diatonically possible as, by that point, all seven tonal degrees are represented within the chord (the next ...

  9. Chord substitution - Wikipedia

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    One simple chord substitute for IV is the "ii" chord, a minor chord built on the second scale degree. In the key of C major, the "ii" chord is "D minor", which is the notes "D, F, and A". As there are two shared notes between the IV and "ii" chords, a melody that works well over IV is likely to be supported by the "ii" chord.