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  2. Musical cryptogram - Wikipedia

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    for Edvard Grieg; his full name being Edvard Hagerup Grieg, the motif is a descending E-minor arpeggio which opens his Piano Sonata (Grieg) E ♭ , C, B ♮ , A (= S, C, H, A ) for Schumann, used in Carnaval , it is a re-ordering of that piece's A-S-C-H motif

  3. Abbreviation (music) - Wikipedia

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    The continued repetition of a note or chord is expressed by a stroke or strokes across the stem, or above or below the note if it be a whole note or double whole note.The number of strokes denotes the subdivision of the written note into eighth notes, sixteenth notes, etc., unless the word tremolo or tremolando is added, in which case the repetition is as rapid as possible, without regard to ...

  4. Glossary of music terminology - Wikipedia

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    vocal score or piano-vocal score A music score of an opera, musical, or a vocal or choral composition with orchestra (like oratorio or cantata) where the vocal parts are written out in full but the accompaniment is reduced to two staves and adapted for playing on piano voce Voice volante Flying volti subito (V.S.) Turn immediately (i.e. turn ...

  5. Chord notation - Wikipedia

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    In 2003 Benjamin, Horvit, and Nelson describe the use of letters to indicate chord root as, "popular music ([and/specifically] jazz) lead sheet symbols." [ 3 ] The use of letters, "is an analytical technique that may be employed along with, or instead of, more conventional methods of analysis such as Roman numeral analysis .

  6. Staff (music) - Wikipedia

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    A typical five-line staff. In Western musical notation, the staff [1] [2] (UK also stave; [3] plural: staffs or staves), [1] also occasionally referred to as a pentagram, [4] [5] [6] is a set of five horizontal lines and four spaces that each represent a different musical pitch or in the case of a percussion staff, different percussion instruments.

  7. Chromatic scale - Wikipedia

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    Chromatic instruments, such as the piano, are made to produce the chromatic scale, while other instruments capable of continuously variable pitch, such as the trombone and violin, can also produce microtones, or notes between those available on a piano. Most music uses subsets of the chromatic scale such as diatonic scales.

  8. Sus - Wikipedia

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    Sus law, formerly allowing broad powers to the police in Britain to stop and search; Sus al-Aksa, a former town in what is now Morocco; Suspicion (emotion), a feeling of distrust or perceived guilt for someone or something

  9. Grace note - Wikipedia

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    In notation, a grace note is distinguished from a standard note by print size. A grace note is indicated by printing a note much smaller than an ordinary note, sometimes with a slash through the note stem (if two or more grace notes, there might be a slash through the note stem of the first note but not the subsequent grace notes).