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  2. 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 ...

  3. Numbered musical notation - Wikipedia

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    The numbered musical notation ( simplified Chinese: 简谱; traditional Chinese: 簡譜; pinyin: jiǎnpǔ; lit. 'simplified notation', not to be confused with the integer notation) is a cipher notation system used in Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and to some extent in Japan, Indonesia (in a slightly different format called "not angka"), Malaysia, Australia, Ireland, the United Kingdom ...

  4. Musical notation - Wikipedia

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    Musical notation is any system used to visually represent music. Systems of notation generally represent the elements of a piece of music that are considered important for its performance in the context of a given musical tradition. The process of interpreting musical notation is often referred to as reading music .

  5. Scientific pitch notation - Wikipedia

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    Scientific pitch notation ( SPN ), also known as American standard pitch notation ( ASPN) and international pitch notation ( IPN ), [1] is a method of specifying musical pitch by combining a musical note name (with accidental if needed) and a number identifying the pitch's octave .

  6. Two hundred fifty-sixth note - Wikipedia

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    In music, a two hundred fifty-sixth note, or occasionally demisemihemidemisemiquaver ( British ), [1] is a note played for 1⁄256 of the duration of a whole note. It lasts half as long as a hundred twenty-eighth note and takes up one quarter of the length of a sixty-fourth note. In musical notation it has a total of six flags or beams. Since human pitch perception begins at 20 Hz (1200/minute ...

  7. Educational Series - Wikipedia

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    Educational Series. Closeup of the motif on the $2 note, Science presents Steam and Electricity to Commerce and Manufacture. " Educational Series " is the informal name used by numismatists to refer to a series of United States silver certificates produced by the U.S. Treasury in 1896, after its Bureau of Engraving and Printing chief Claude M ...

  8. Tie (music) - Wikipedia

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    Tie (music) A quarter note tied to a sixteenth note. Dotted note notation and the equivalent durations in tied note notation. Tie across the beat, followed by identical rhythm notated without tie. In music notation, a tie is a curved line connecting the heads of two notes of the same pitch, indicating that they are to be played as a single note ...

  9. List of trigonometric identities - Wikipedia

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    These identities are useful whenever expressions involving trigonometric functions need to be simplified. An important application is the integration of non-trigonometric functions: a common technique involves first using the substitution rule with a trigonometric function, and then simplifying the resulting integral with a trigonometric identity.