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  2. Musical system of ancient Greece - Wikipedia

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    The modern note-names are given in the Helmholtz pitch notation, and the Greek note symbols are as given in the work of Egert Pöhlmann . [9] The pitches of the notes in modern notation are conventional, going back to the time of a publication by Johann Friedrich Bellermann [ de ] in 1840; [ 10 ] in practice the pitches would have been somewhat ...

  3. Ancient Greek Musical Notation - Wikipedia

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    Greek: Symbol sets: Ancient Greek music notation: Assigned: 70 code points: Unused: 10 reserved code points: Unicode version history; 4.1 (2005) 70 (+70) Unicode ...

  4. 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 ...

  5. Musical notation - Wikipedia

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    Braille music is a complete, well developed, and internationally accepted musical notation system that has symbols and notational conventions quite independent of print music notation. It is linear in nature, similar to a printed language and different from the two-dimensional nature of standard printed music notation.

  6. Music of ancient Greece - Wikipedia

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    Musical scene with three women painted by the Niobid painter.Side A of a red-figure amphora, Walters Art Museum. Music played an integral role in ancient Greek society. Pericles' teacher Damon said, according to Plato in the Republic, "when fundamental modes of music change, the fundamental modes of the state change with t

  7. Glossary of music terminology - Wikipedia

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    The symbol is not a C as an abbreviation for common time, but a broken circle; the full circle at one time stood for triple time, 3 4. comodo Comfortable (i.e. at moderate speed); also, allegro comodo, tempo comodo, etc. comp 1. abbreviation of accompanying, accompanying music, accompaniment

  8. Octave species - Wikipedia

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    The most important of all the consonant species was the octave species, because "from the species of the consonance of the diapason arise what are called modes". [5] The basis of the octave species was the smaller category of species of the perfect fourth, or diatessaron; when filled in with two intermediary notes, the resulting four notes and three consecutive intervals constitute a ...

  9. Frequency - Wikipedia

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    The conventional symbol for frequency is f or ν (the Greek letter nu) is also used. [3] The period T is the time taken to complete one cycle of an oscillation or rotation. The frequency and the period are related by the equation [ 4 ] f = 1 T . {\displaystyle f={\frac {1}{T}}.}