#musical_notation__musicalnotation a notation used by musicians
supertype: #notation__notational_system a technical system of symbols used to represent special things
part: #staff_line #space.surface_area #ledger_line
part of: #musical_score
subtype: #bar_line__barline a vertical line marking the boundary between musical bars
subtype: #double_bar notation marking the end of principal parts of a musical composition; two adjacent bar lines
subtype: #tablature a musical notation indicating the fingering to be used
subtype: #musical_scale__scale a series of notes differing in pitch according to a specific scheme (usually within an octave)
subtype: #gamut.musical_scale the entire scale of musical notes
subtype: #diatonic_scale a scale with eight notes in an octave; all but two are separated by whole tones
subtype: #musical_mode__musicalmode__mode any of various fixed orders of the various diatonic notes within an octave
subtype: #ecclesiastical_mode__Gregorian_mode__church_mode__medieval_mode any of a system of modes used in Gregorian chants up until 1600; derived historically from the Greek mode
subtype: #Greek_mode any of the descending diatonic scales in the music of classical Greece
subtype: #major_scale__majorscale__major_diatonic_scale a diatonic scale with notes separated by whole tones except for the 3rd and 4th and 7th and 8th
subtype: #minor_scale__minorscale__minor_diatonic_scale a diatonic scale with notes separated by whole tones except for the 2nd and 3rd and 5th and 6th
subtype: #chromatic_scale__chromaticscale a 12-note scale including all the semitones of the octave
subtype: #gapped_scale a musical scale with fewer than seven notes
subtype: #pentatonic_scale a gapped scale with five notes
subtype: #musical_interval__musicalinterval__interval the difference in pitch between two notes
subtype: #whole_tone__wholetone__tone__step__whole_step__wholestep a musical interval of two semitones
subtype: #semitone__half_step the musical interval between adjacent keys on a keyboard instrument
subtype: #quartertone half of a semitone
subtype: #musical_octave__musicaloctave__octave a musical interval of eight tones
subtype: #third.musical_interval the musical interval between one note and another three notes away from it; "a simple harmony written in major thirds"
subtype: #fourth.musical_interval the musical interval between one note and another four notes away from it
subtype: #fifth.musical_interval the musical interval between one note and another five notes away from it
subtype: #sixth the musical interval between one note and another six notes away from it
subtype: #seventh the musical interval between one note and another seven notes away from it
subtype: #stave__staff (music) the system of five horizontal lines on which the musical notes are written
subtype: #clef a musical notation written on a staff indicating the pitch of the notes following it
subtype: #treble_clef__G_clef a clef that puts the G above middle C on the second line of a staff
subtype: #bass_clef__F_clef a clef that puts the F below middle C on the fourth line of a staff
subtype: #alto_clef__viola_clef__violaclef a clef that puts middle C on the third line of a staff
subtype: #C_clef a movable clef that puts middle C on one of the lines of a staff
subtype: #soprano_clef__sopranoclef a clef that puts middle C on the bottom line of the staff
subtype: #tenor_clef__tenorclef a clef that puts middle C on the fourth line of the staff; used for writing music for bassoons or cellos or tenor horns
subtype: #key_signature__keysignature__signature the sharps or flats that follow the clef and indicate the key
subtype: #tonality__key any of 24 major or minor diatonic scales that provide the tonal framework for a piece of music
subtype: #atonality__atonalism the absence of a key; alternative to the diatonic system
subtype: #musical_time_signature__time_signature a musical notation indicating the number of beats to a measure and kind of note that takes a beat
subtype: #alla_breve a musical time signature indicating two or four half notes to a measure
subtype: #measure.musical_notation__bar notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats; written followed by a vertical bar
subtype: #rest.musical_notation a musical notation indicating a silence of a specified duration
subtype: #whole_rest__wholerest a rest equal in duration to a whole note
subtype: #musical_note__musicalnote__note__tone a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound; "the singer held the note too long"
subtype: #tonic__keynote (music) the first note of a diatonic scale
subtype: #supertonic (music) the second note of a diatonic scale
subtype: #mediant (music) the third note of a diatonic scale; midway between the tonic and the dominant
subtype: #subdominant (music) the fourth note of the diatonic scale
subtype: #dominant (music) the fifth note of the diatonic scale
subtype: #submediant (music) the sixth note of a major or minor scale (or the third below the tonic)
subtype: #subtonic__leading_tone__leadingtone (music) the seventh note of the diatonic scale
subtype: #pedal_point__pedalpoint__pedal a sustained bass note
subtype: #trill__shake a note that alternates rapidly with another note a semitone above it
subtype: #middle_C the note designated by the first ledger line below the treble staff; 261.63 Hertz
subtype: #chord a combination of three or more notes that blend harmoniously when sounded together
subtype: #arpeggio a chord whose notes are played in rapid succession rather than simultaneously
subtype: #sforzando an accented chord
subtype: #common_chord__triad a 3-note major or minor chord; a note and its third and fifth tones
subtype: #seventh_chord__seventhchord a triad with a seventh added
subtype: #passing_note__passingnote__passing_tone__passingtone a nonharmonic note inserted for transition between harmonic notes
subtype: #whole_note__wholenote__semibreve a musical note having the longest time value
subtype: #half_note__minim a musical note having the time value of half a whole note
subtype: #quarter_note__quarternote__crotchet a musical note having the time value of a quarter of a whole note
subtype: #eighth_note__quaver a musical note having the time value of an eighth of a whole note
subtype: #sixteenth_note__sixteenthnote__semiquaver a musical note having the time value of a sixteenth of a whole note
subtype: #thirty-second_note__demisemiquaver a musical note having the time value of a thirty-second of a whole note
subtype: #sixty-fourth_note__hemidemisemiquaver a musical note having the time value of a sixty-fourth of a whole note
subtype: #grace_note__gracenote__appoggiatura__acciaccatura an embellishing note usually written in smaller size
subtype: #blue_note a flattened third or seventh
subtype: #slur (music) a curved line spanning notes that are to be played legato
subtype: #tie.slur (music) a slur over two notes of the same pitch; indicates that the note is to be sustained for their combined time value
subtype: #sharp.musical_notation a notation indicating one half step higher than the note named
subtype: #flat.musical_notation a notation indicating one half step lower than the note named
subtype: #cancel__natural a notation cancelling a previous sharp or flat
subtype: #accidental a notation that makes a note sharp or flat or natural although that is not part of the key signature
subtype: #solmisation__solmization a system of naming the notes of a musical scale by syllables instead of letters
subtype: #tonic_solfa__tonicsolfa__solfa a system of solmization using the solfa syllables: do-re-mi-fa-sol-la-ti
subtype: #segno (music) a notation written at the beginning or end of a passage that is to be repeated
subtype: #sforzando.musical_notation (music) a notation written above a note and indicating that it is to be played with a strong initial attack
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