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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. Close and open harmony - Wikipedia

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    In contrast, a chord is in open harmony (also called open position or open structure [1]) if there is more than an octave between the top and bottom notes. The more general term spacing describes how far apart the notes in a chord are voiced. A triad in close harmony has compact spacing, while one in open harmony has wider spacing.

  4. Open-mid back rounded vowel - Wikipedia

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    The open-mid back rounded vowel, or low-mid back rounded vowel, [1] is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ɔ . The IPA symbol is a turned letter c and both the symbol and the sound are

  5. Syllable - Wikipedia

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    For example, Spanish casar ("to marry") is composed of an open syllable followed by a closed syllable (ca-sar), whereas cansar "to get tired" is composed of two closed syllables (can-sar). When a geminate (double) consonant occurs, the syllable boundary occurs in the middle, e.g. Italian panna "cream" ( pan-na ); cf. Italian pane "bread" ( pa-ne ).

  6. Open vowel - Wikipedia

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    Open vowels are sometimes also called low vowels (in U.S. terminology [1]) in reference to the low position of the tongue. In the context of the phonology of any particular language, a low vowel can be any vowel that is more open than a mid vowel. That is, open-mid vowels, near-open vowels, and open vowels can all be considered low vowels.

  7. Open-mid central rounded vowel - Wikipedia

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    The open-mid central rounded vowel, or low-mid central rounded vowel, [1] is a vowel sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ɞ , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is 3\. The symbol is called closed reversed epsilon.

  8. Naming conventions of the International Phonetic Alphabet

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    The symbol's names and phonetic descriptions are described in the Handbook of the International Phonetic Association. The symbols also have nonce names in the Unicode standard. In some cases, the Unicode names and the IPA names do not agree. For example, IPA calls ɛ "epsilon", but Unicode calls it "small letter open E".

  9. List of Latin-script letters - Wikipedia

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    Closed reversed open E (closed reversed epsilon) IPA /ɞ/ IPA oPA Open-mid central rounded vowel; Superscript form is an IPA superscript letter [7] ʚ: Closed open E (closed epsilon) IPA (obsolete) LAMSAS /ɞ/ /œ/ Obsolete IPA open-mid front rounded vowel used from 1904-1920s, [17] misprinted version of ɞ: ᴈ ᵌ: Turned open E IPA (obsolete ...