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In music, notes are distinct and isolatable sounds that act as the most basic building blocks for nearly all of music. This discretization facilitates performance, comprehension, and analysis.[1] Notes may be visually communicated by writing them in musical notation.
Notes can distinguish the general pitch class or the specific pitch played by a pitched instrument. Although this article focuses on pitch, notes for unpitched percussion instruments distinguish between different percussion instruments (and/or different manners to sound them) instead of pitch. Note value expresses the relative duration of the note in time. Dynamics for a note indicate how loud to play them. Articulations may further indicate how performers should shape the attack and decay of the note and express fluctuations in a note's timbre and pitch. Notes may even distinguish the use of different extended techniques by using special symbols.
The term note can refer to a specific musical event, for instance when saying the song "Happy Birthday to You", begins with two notes of identical pitch. Or more generally, the term can refer to a class of identically sounding events, for instance when saying "the song begins with the same note repeated twice.
symbols. The term note can refer to a specific musical event, for instance when saying the song "Happy Birthday to You", begins with two notes of identical...
communicate information about many musical elements, including pitch, duration, dynamics, or articulation of musicalnotes; tempo, metre, form (e.g., whether...
up note in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Note, notes, or NOTE may refer to: Musicalnote, a pitched sound (or a symbol for a sound) in music Notes (album)...
An eighth note (American) or a quaver (British) is a musicalnote played for one eighth the duration of a whole note (semibreve). Its length relative to...
note (American) or semibreve (British) in musical notation is a single note equivalent to or lasting as long as two half notes or four quarter notes....
ghost note (or a dead, muted, silenced or false note) is a musicalnote with a rhythmic value, but no discernible pitch when played. In musical notation...
of the musical staff, although in polyphonic music the rest may need to be moved to a different line or even a ledger line. As with all notes with stems...
quarter note (American) or crotchet (/ˈkrɒtʃɪt/ KROTCH-it) (British) is a musicalnote played for one quarter of the duration of a whole note (or semibreve)...
In Western musical notation, a dotted note is a note with a small dot written after it. In modern practice, the first dot increases the duration of the...
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all notes with stems, sixteenth notes are drawn with stems to the right of the notehead, facing up, when they are below the middle line of the musical staff...
word that connotes simultaneously a breath, a vowel, the sound of a musicalnote corresponding to its name, and the successive steps of the octave or...
a semitone, but this varies depending on the musical context. Like the blues in general, the blue notes can mean many things. One quality that they all...
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