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  2. Capo (musical device) - Wikipedia

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    Spring clamp capo A guitar capo with a lever-operated over-centre locking action clamp Demonstrating the peg removal feature on an Adagio guitar capo. A capo (/ ˈ k eɪ p oʊ ˌ k æ-ˌ k ɑː-/ KAY-poh, KAH-; short for capodastro, capo tasto or capotasto [ˌkapoˈtasto], Italian for "head of fretboard") [a] is a device a musician uses on the neck of a stringed (typically fretted) instrument ...

  3. Glossary of music terminology - Wikipedia

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    capo 1. capo (short for capotasto: "nut") : A key-changing device for stringed instruments (e.g. guitars and banjos) 2. head (i.e. the beginning, as in da capo) capriccio "A humorous, fanciful, or bizarre, composition, often characterized by an idiosyncratic departure from current stylistic norms." [5] See also: Capriccio (disambiguation ...

  4. Open E tuning - Wikipedia

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    Open E tuning is a tuning for guitar: low to high, E-B-E-G ♯-B-E. [1] Compared to standard tuning, two strings are two semitones higher and one string is one semitone higher. The intervals are identical to those found in open D tuning. In fact, it is common for players to keep their guitar tuned to open d and place a capo over the second fret.

  5. 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 ...

  6. Partial capo - Wikipedia

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    Guitarist and songwriter Harvey Reid is a prominent partial capo popularizer. He pioneered most of the known capo configurations, wrote books, and composed and recorded songs using partial capo. Reid published a book in 1980, A New Frontier in Guitar, detailing 25 ways to use a Third Hand Capo, at the time the only partial capo on the market. [2]

  7. Capo - Wikipedia

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    Capo, short for Caporegime, a rank in the Mafia Capo dei capi , or capo di tutti capi , Italian for "boss of bosses", a phrase used to indicate a powerful individual in organized crime Capo (concentration camp) , a prisoner who supervised forced labor or carried out tasks delegated by Nazi guards

  8. Ternary form - Wikipedia

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    Baroque opera arias and a considerable number of baroque sacred music arias was dominated by the Da capo aria which were in the ABA form. A frequent model of the form began with a long A section in a major key, a short B section in a relative minor key mildly developing the thematic material of the A section and then a repetition of the A section. [4]

  9. Letter notation - Wikipedia

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    Where a capo is indicated, there is little standardisation. For example, after capo 3, most music sheets will write A to indicate a C chord, that is, they give the chord shape rather than its pitch, but some specify it as C, others give two lines, either the C on top and the A on the bottom or vice versa. A few even use the /, writing C/A or A ...