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  2. 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).

  3. 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 ...

  4. Tablature - Wikipedia

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    Tablature was common during the Renaissance and Baroque eras, and is commonly used today in notating many forms of music. Three types of organ tablature were used in Europe: German, Spanish and Italian. [1] To distinguish standard musical notation from tablature, the former is usually called "staff notation" or just "notation".

  5. Sheet music - Wikipedia

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    Sheet music is a handwritten or printed form of musical notation that uses musical symbols to indicate the pitches, rhythms, or chords of a song or instrumental musical piece. Like its analogs – printed books or pamphlets in English, Arabic, or other languages – the medium of sheet music typically is paper (or, in earlier centuries, papyrus ...

  6. Neume - Wikipedia

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    A neume (/ nj uː m /; sometimes spelled neum) [1] [2] [3] is the basic element of Western and some Eastern systems of musical notation prior to the invention of five-line staff notation. The earliest neumes were inflective marks that indicated the general shape but not necessarily the exact notes or rhythms to be sung.

  7. 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 ...

  8. Shape note - Wikipedia

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    The notation became a popular teaching device in American singing schools during the 19th century. Shapes were added to the noteheads in written music to help singers find pitches within major and minor scales without the use of more complex information found in key signatures on the staff.

  9. Category:Musical notation - Wikipedia

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    Scientific pitch notation; Segue; Shakuhachi musical notation; Shape note; Sharp (music) Sheet music; Shorthand for orchestra instrumentation; Siffernotskrift; Sight-reading; Simplified music notation; Slide (musical ornament) Slur (music) Solfège; Solmization; Sonido 13; Sori (music) Sotto voce (music) Staccato; Staff (music) Stem (music ...