English > musical notation: 1 sense > noun 1, communication| Meaning | (music) notation used by musicians / musicians. |
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| Category | music | An artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner |
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| Part of | score, musical score | A written form of a musical composition |
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| Parts | ledger line, leger line | A short line |
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| space | One of the areas between or below or above the lines of a musical staff |
| staff line | Any of the 5 horizontal marks comprising a staff |
| Narrower | accidental | A musical notation that makes a note sharp or flat or natural although that is not part of the key signature |
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| atonality, atonalism | The absence of a key |
| bar line | A vertical line before the accented beat marking the boundary between musical bars |
| clef | A musical notation written on a staff indicating the pitch of the notes following it |
| fermata | A musical notation (over a note or chord or rest) that indicates it is to be prolonged by an unspecified amount |
| flat | A musical notation indicating one half step lower than the note named |
| interval, musical interval | The difference in pitch between two notes |
| key, tonality | Any of 24 major or minor diatonic scales that provide the tonal framework for a piece of music |
| key signature, signature | The sharps or flats that follow the clef and indicate the key |
| measure, bar | musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats |
| natural, cancel | A notation cancelling a previous sharp or flat |
| note, musical note, tone | A notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound |
| rest | A musical notation indicating a silence of a specified duration |
| scale, musical scale | (music) a series of notes differing in pitch according to a specific scheme (usually within an octave) |
| segno | (music) a notation written at the beginning or end of a passage that is to be repeated |
| sforzando | (music) a notation written above a note and indicating that it is to be played with a strong initial attack |
| sharp | A musical notation indicating one half step higher than the note named |
| slur | (music) a curved line spanning notes that are to be played legato |
| solmization, solmisation | A system of naming the notes of a musical scale by syllables instead of letters |
| staff, stave | (music) the system of five horizontal lines on which the musical notes are written |
| tablature | A musical notation indicating the fingering to be used |
| time signature, musical time signature | A musical notation indicating the number of beats to a measure and kind of note that takes a beat |
| Broader | notation, notational system | A technical system of symbols used to represent special things |
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| Spanish | notación musical |
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| Catalan | notació musical |
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