Musical notation in written or printed form
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Resource for sheet music for blind musicians
Question: Do you know any sheet music resources for blind people, i.e. sheet music in braille notation? I don't seem to find any braille files in IMSLP (the Petrucci Library at http://www.imslp.org). ...
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Music sheet notation explanation (Alto sax)
I just got some new sheet-music for alto sax and wonder how to play this notation:
For example in these contexts:
Thanks for every helpful answer!
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Why are these notes separated on the stave?
So I'm just learning this Coldplay piece and it has notes which are not joined but on the same stave. I'm wondering what the purpose of this is or rather what information it's trying to convey? ...
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Transcribing a Standard MIDI File to sheet music
I have a couple of nice guitar midi files that I would like the scores for; is there any software out there that can do this sort of conversion, and output it as a PDF file?
Thanks
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Does software exist to catalogue band parts?
My brass band is looking at putting our band library catalogue into a database, but we haven't been able to find any software designed for this purpose. We'd like to store not only information about ...
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What do you call plucking the violin strings with the finger, rather than using the bow?
I was attempting to learn a bit about violin sheet music, and then I wondered if the act of producing sound with the finger or the fingernail had a written notation.
I had a hard time finding a video ...
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What does one slash through a half note stem AND 4 dots above it mean? [duplicate]
In a version of "Overture to Lucio Silla" by Mozart, half of the viola part of the song has half notes with a SINGLE slash through it, but 4 dots on the base part of every not (The circular part). ...
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Learning standard notation without succombing to simply remembering songs?
I'm in a tricky position. I've been playing guitar for around ten years and am fairly good at improvising and tinkering around on a piano, too. I understand sheet music, I can decipher it, but I can't ...
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What music notation software can handle this complex beaming?
Update: It looks like the votes are clearly in favor of Lilypond. While Sibelius and Finale appear to be the "canonical" solutions, and MuseScore has a nice showing (albeit using a "development" ...
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Free Sheet Music? Please? [duplicate]
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Sites with a good selection of sheet music
I am musician and I keep needing new music score. I was wondering where I could get sheet music for free? Can you recommend ...
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How can I change the time signature to make the score easier to read?
I'm trying to transcribe a pop song.
I'm fairly sure that the time signature is 2/4 since it has a ONE two ONE two, feel like a march.
My problem is that it's a fast song and contains so many 32th ...
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How can I rehearse and perform with PDF scores on screen instead of paper scores?
As a chorus and opera singer, I have gotten tired of lugging thick opera scores everywhere. Most of the music I sing is public-domain, and the scores are freely available in in PDF form. I am working ...
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How to train playing sheet music on guitar?
I am a beginning guitar player, and I struggle to play sheet music.
If I remember the piece I want to play by heart, it goes pretty fine. However, when I look at the sheet (if I forget a few notes, ...
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What does an arranger do?
When you see the "arranged by" attribution on a score, what did the arranger (typically) do?
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Small natural above C in G Major
Here is a picture of the sheet music (Eine Klein Nachtmusik, movement 1). The odd accidental has a red freehand circle around it.
What does this natural sign mean? As you can see, the key is G ...
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What does “1 x Tacet” mean?
What does 1xTacet mean?
Does it mean "play the following in 1st round only"?
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What does “TAG for Three-part voices” mean?
Reading some three-part a cappella music, I see "TAG for Three-part voices" above the staff. Any idea what that might mean?
19 is the measure number. There are 27 measures total in the song, so ...
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Why are some measures separated by double lines?
I play piano. Sometimes, measures in pieces are separated by a double vertical line instead of a single one. What does this signify?
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How to write partitures for an orchesta
I know a single musician would read from a partiture in real time and that is no problem, the partiture has its silences and tempo.
I am more a lyric musician but I like composing music because I ...
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adult piano for musicians: ideas for music pieces [closed]
I bought a piano almost a year ago and I really enjoy playing it. The problem for the moment is that I have no clue what pieces I should try. I bought 'Alfred's Basic Adult Piano Course: Lesson Book, ...
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Why is it common to write tuba sheet music in concert pitch?
I play E♭ tuba in a wind orchestra, and we always get the notes written in concert pitch, and we have to logically "transpose" to the instrument key on the fly.
How common is this approach? Why is ...
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How to Differentiate the sounds of 1 chrochets , 2 chrochets , four chrochets while singing , can anyone provide me a solution? [closed]
I have my basic grade exams in music , so I have to prepare for site reading, can anyone tell me how should I practice for my exams .
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Why is B flat in this key sigiture when B is never played?
In the below sheet music B is marked as flat however the only notes played are g g g d e c C. Is that just a typo on the part of the person who made this image and it should be on the upper C or am I ...
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What does the 3 above the staff represent?
From the below image, What does the 3 above the three quarter notes represent? I attempted to look it up here but I did not find anything similar to it.
I am assuming it makes the 3 notes shorter, ...
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impossible to find music [closed]
The theme from Tony Hart's BBC art programmes in 70s & 80s (Vision On) ,called Left Bank Two, was recorded by the Noveltones at the end of a proper recording session.Maybe because of this, the ...
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Why is the last semiquaver outside the last triplet of the measure?
The following measure is from "Clair De Lune ~ Adagio Sostenuto de la Sonata Op. 27 N. 2 De Beethoven", guitar sheet music .
Correct me if I'm wrong but the last semiquaver isn't going to be ...
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Who was the first composer to notate a trombone smear?
I've been listening to Henry Fillmore's "Trombone Family". It brought me to thinking, how long have trombone smears been around in written sheet music? Was Fillmore, a.k.a. "Father of the Trombone ...
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Accidental in Chopin Opus. 69 No. 2
This is an excerpt from Opus. 69 No. 2 by Chopin from the Henle Urtext:
In the last bar seen in the excerpt, there is a sharp on the A in bass line. Since A is already "sharped" in the key ...
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Sheet Music Books [closed]
I'm a complete newbie to music playing and I've just started learing about sheet music. My mentor was explaining it and showed me some examples from a book called P.Bona. I'm guessing it is Italian.
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Recommendations for sheet music organising software under GNU/Linux [closed]
I'm looking for a piece of software that would run under GNU/Linux and that would allow me to store and organise sheet music in various formats on my hard drive into a database searchable by genre, ...
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Software to convert between sheet music and tablature?
Is there any software available that can (semi)automatically convert between ASCII tablature (especially for guitar and drums) and sheet music? And the other way around?
I realise that there's not ...
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What exactly does a 3 mean over a quarter note and an 8th note?
There is an eighth note followed by a quarter note, and above them is a little overarching bracket with a little 3 in it. I know this has something to do with the timing, but I have no idea what.
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Tracking down sheet music for “God Is” by James Cleveland
I am not sure where to ask this question, but the Stack Exchange sites have been a good resource for me for other interests that I have, so I am hoping that I drilled down to the right level here to ...
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Learning blues piano from music score
I have been playing classical piano reading sheet music, and I want to begin blues by similarly learning some pieces from score. What would be some good books/sites I can use for this?
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Can you help me expand this trill in Mozart's Sonata 16 (k545)?
I wonder if I am reading it wrong, or if i need much more practice on this segment. It simply doesn't sound right when I play it. Can you help me expand this trill into actual notes on the sheet ...
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Why does this note sound like it is not played?
I've been learning the second movement of Mozart's Piano Sonata 16 for a while. While I get most of the stuff memorized, some part of it just doesn't sound right comparing to recordings on YouTube ...
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Is there a specific name for Sheet music that uses numbers (二胡 Èrhú Sheet Music)?
I am searching for a software program (preferably opensource but not necessarily) that can create sheet music. However since I am a beginner at my instrument I still use a simplified notation. I play ...
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Trying to program a piano staff/stave. Is this what it's supposed to look like?
I'm currently writing a software application which creates notes on a staff, when a piano key is pressed. Unfortunately I have no background in music, and thus am finding it quite hard to get started.
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With regards to piano sheet music, when are you supposed to press the pedal(s)?
I've been playing piano for about 8 months. I have a digital weighted 88-key piano with only one pedal.
My friend, who used to play piano, taught me to hold the pedal down when there is an arc in ...
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Is it a typo or how do I play it? [duplicate]
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The same note on two staves
I have put red arrows where I am in trouble. As I understand this, I should hit D but it is already pressed down. Do I misunderstand ...
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With sheet music, what happens with sharps and double sharps that are already sharped in the key signature?
For example, let's say the key signature has an f sharp and then also an individual f note has a sharp next to it. Are they just emphasizing the f sharp or does that actually become a g?
Same ...
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Is there a computer program to transcribe songs to sheet music?
Is there a computer program that I can use where I upload a favourite song and it'll transcribe it to sheet music for me? I'd like to play Running up That Hill by Placebo but I don't want to buy the ...
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What does an arc mean above the notes in a piano sheet music? How do I play it?
See the picture above. Is there a website where these (perhaps not so basic) notations are collected?
UPDATE: I see Wikipedia has a nice collection of musical notations.
How do I play the slur on ...
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Why is the left hand stave missing from the piano sheet music?
Normally, I have both the right and the left hand as here
The left hand stave was always missing in that book of piano sheet music I saw yesterday, however it had letters above the stave for right ...
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What does a grid with dots above the staves mean in a piano sheet music?
First I thought it was for some other musical instrument (guitar?) but both the title and the shopkeeper told me that the music sheet was for piano.
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What genre is John Stump - Faerie's Aire and Death Waltz [closed]
Sorry if this question is not eligible for this QA board, but I really need to know how would musicians classify the John Stump - Faerie's Aire and Death Waltz music? Is it classics? I need to find ...
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What is the song in this modern painting “Petite”?
I can't recognise the musical composition on this painting. What is it?
The painting hangs in the modern art museum Brandhorst in Munich. Unfortunately I didn't write the artist or title down, and ...
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What is the foundational book of Czerny finger exercises for piano?
I've recently started teaching myself piano (via Bartok's Mikrokosmos) and feel it would be helpful to supplement the pieces with some standard exercises. Everyone I speak with suggests Czerny, but ...
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As a guitarist, how can I learn to sight-read music?
I'm learning guitar right now, mostly from Justin Sandercoe's free online lessons, starting from the beginner's course. He has a lot of good tips for how to practice and drill chords, and scales, but ...
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How do you draw a quarter rest with a pen/pencil?
It seems to me that the quarter rest we see everywhere was drawn with a calligraphy pen. I don't have one of those - I have a sharpened/mechanical pencil or a ball-point pen. So usually when I try to ...
