Questions tagged [sheet-music]
Musical notation in written or printed form. Questions asking people to find or transcribe (make) sheet music for a particular song are off-topic.
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Transposing Piano Accompaniment for Vocalist - When to Change Clefs
I have been transposing some voice + piano accompaniment music originally written for a mezzo-soprano or alto into a key for a tenor down (usually by a third or a fourth) and have found the resulting ...
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fingering for violin
When reading music how am I supposed to know which fingering to use? Let me clarify. I can read the notes. However, when there is an A how do I know if I play an open A or the fourth finger on the D ...
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Why are these 2 sharps ignored?
I am trying to learn Via Purifico (浄罪の路) on piano from Nobuo Uematsu, but there is a specific part that doesn't sound right to me - albeit I'm not mastering it yet.
Upon checking online, I found some ...
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Problems reading sheet music with visual disability
I'm not really sure if "visual disability" is correctly said since english is not my native language and had to use Google Translator.
My worries are about reading sheet music.
I'm trying to learn ...
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Learning Piano/Keyboard
I started 1 year ago learning keyboard -the method being Full chord with prominence for melody note with right hand , and left hand with root note ( with fixing last finger on tonic note ). For eg: if ...
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Are these groups of notes played together?
From the sheet, the notes circled in red appears to be separate (1 chord + 1 note), and I have always played them separately.
However, after listening to a few recordings, apparently they are to be ...
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What are these numbers like "6 5" that are stacked on each other below the bass staff in a sheet of music?
This is for piano.
What are the '6' and '5' that are stacked on each other at the bottom?
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Is a two-handed solo piano score a kind of full score?
I'm working on a music categorization project, basically I have to classify what category should this sheet belongs to, but it only has two categories: is full score or is not.
As far as I know, full ...
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Why would anyone say that it is problematic to notate this chant like this instead of using the standard notation for gregorian chant?
I hear many people saying that notating Gregorian chant like this is problematic. Why would anyone say that it is problematic to notate this chant like this instead of using the standard notation for ...
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Overlapping parenthesis symbol name / meaning
Ran into this symbol on some sheet music today, and no matter what I used in my search query I can't find the meaning or name. It's the twisty I / )( shown above the note / below the Cm chord.
This ...
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BWV 893, London or Altnickol version?
There are 2 versions of the B minor prelude from WTC 2, BWV 893 on IMSLP:
A. 'London version' which is in cut time.
B. 'Altnickol version' which is in 4/4, the note values diminutized proportionally, ...
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When you read sheet music do you read the notes or the intervals?
I have found myself doing both but not sure which is the right way. Sometimes I see a note then I can see the next note is a 4th above it so I play it but I actually don't know what note I just played ...
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Sheet Music Software, w/ Measures/Bars per System Setting
For many years I was an "Encore" user, and alas, Encore is no longer supported. (Rumors of a new version persist, but... we'll see....) I used it to create piano sheet music.
Encore allowed ...
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Rhythmic values don't add up in a variant of Chopin's Nocturne op. 9 no 2?
In the book Chopin: Pianist and Teacher: As Seen by his Pupils I found a fragment which shows 2 variants (at least that's what it looks like to me) of bar 24 of Nocturne op. 9 no 2, presented by ...
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How would I number my measures for my solo? [duplicate]
How would I number the the top line, since the first measure is basically 1/2 of a measure, would I still put 1? The measure or 2 after the 2-4 are half measure, but two half measure make one so would ...
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Help reading music sheet [closed]
Could someone help me explain this music sheet of Frere Jacque?
The is a Violin key, A mole on the A line and some notes. What do I habe to do with them in order to play this the correct way according ...
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Is it efficient to visualize chords on sheet music as notes on a piano to know the qualities of it?
For example, say you see sheet music (you are not in front of a piano) and you see the notes D F A . Is it efficient enough to visualize these notes as on a piano to determine that they are a minor ...
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Where do I find original sheet music for songs?
I heard Orleans on Youtube and cover bands and wanted to learn some of their songs. I went to the library and music store to try to find their sheet music but struck out. Seems like no one is ...
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Is it possible to transcribe Indian music (especially vocal ornamentation) in western-style sheet music?
I recently learned that Indian music basically uses the same 12 notes that we see in western music and that at one of the main reasons why it sounds so foreign is the vocal ornamentation. For example ...
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What's this vertical dash called and what does it mean?
I found this vertical dash on some sheet music and I can't figure out what it is or what does it mean. I've tried looking through Wikipedia's list of symbols, but I couldn't find it there and me ...
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How to identify chord a progression from sheet music
I’m a beginner-intermediate harmonica player. I live in a country where Celtic music is very popular and a lot of my friends and family play along with each other. The problem is very few of them know ...
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Any idea what "[Instrument] colle Parti" means?
I'm trying to figure out what "[Previous instrument] colle Parti" means when changing instrument, but I found no information about it. Translation is "[Previous instrument] with parts&...
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What do these quarter notes without a stem represent?
I was playing a piece recently and came across this:
What are these called, and are they any different from your typical quarter notes?
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What do notes on the neutral clef mean? [duplicate]
When writing notes on the neutral clef for percussion, do the notes correspond to different instruments (bass drum, snare drum, etc.) or do the notes represent something else?
Here's an example:
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Can the treble clef be used instead of the bass clef in piano music?
I have been learning the piano for a few months now and I am having trouble learning the bass clef. I have played other instruments that use the treble clef so I know it well. Can the bass clef be ...
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What does the s number mean in the title of the piece?
For example, the transcendental etudes by Liszt are labeled "S. 139." What does this mean? If it's related to the piece's release date, what's the difference between it and opus # (e.g the ...
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How can I verify the accuracy of music scores?
I recently encountered a puzzling issue while working on Jean Sibelius's Thirteen Pieces for Piano Op. 76 No. 2. My teacher pointed out a potential error in my music score, specifically in the ...
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How to identify voice of whole note
I've got a chord of whole notes and have no idea which voice they're in.
There are other chords in the sheet music that I looked at to try to figure out the voice, but this hasn't been conclusive. At ...
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Chopin Waltz in b minor (Op. 69 No. 2) measures 13~14 different versions
I'm seeing two different versions of Chopin Op. 69 No. 2 Waltz in b minor, Measure 13-14. The one that is not urtext (or maybe is also urtext?) seems to be widely used.
My Henle Urtext book (see cover ...
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Unidentified symbol in music notation [duplicate]
What is the symbol marked in red circle?
I tried to search all old hymnbooks, I could not find this symbol.
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Guitar Sheet Music not matching tabs
Sorry, I'm inexperienced, but I have a hard time wrapping my head around sheet music for unusual tunings.
As far as I'm aware, the first note on the tabs is a G#, and it's just a G on the sheet music ...
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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 ...
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Will the accidental of a mordent affect another mordent that is in the same measure?
The first mordent in this measure will be played as D , C# , D. The second mordent in the same measure doesn't have a sharp like the first mordent.
Will the sharp accidental of the first mordent ...
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Music Notation: "Wave" below a note
So recently I stumbled upon this symbol in one of Chopin's works, to be precise in "4 Mazurkas" (Op. 33 No. 1) in bars 14, 16 and 17.
Here's a link to the edition I'm talking about, and below is a ...
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Music Notation adding notes doesn't always match time signature [duplicate]
A couple weeks back I got into piano and now after synesthesia experiments and learning basic stuff. I'm trying to teach myself reading music scores correctly. Went smooth till this presented below ...
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how to play sf/sfp? [duplicate]
I'm a bit confused what sf and sfp mean.
do they mean to suddenly play forte/loud, or to simply play an accent, or both?
and are all the following notes after sf supposed to be played forte?
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What's the meaning of a half note with a flag?
In Carcassi's Arpeggio exercises (for guitar) there are passages like this:
Do these half notes are connected with eighth notes? What does the half notes with flag means?
BTW, how to include these ...
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Best way to indicate L.H over in piano
I have piano sheet music that has this:
But I wanted to change the right hand clef to be lower to get rid of all the ledger lines:
But then I realized I could put the left hand over part on the ...
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When should the last ending bracket(volta) be closed and when should it be open?
I have a question about the last volta (ultima volta, last ending bracket). When should it be closed and when should it be open?
I have found a document about that topic, which can be found here on ...
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Making a confusing sheet with 3 voices and triplets non-ambiguous
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I've transcribed the Title Screen song from Pokémon Red/Blue/Yellow for classical guitar and I am now polishing the sheet.
Here are measures 15 and 16 of the direct transcription of the ...
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LilyPond - Can I change the scoreTitleMarkup style/content depending on the page number?
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Is there a way to change how the score title appears based on whether it’s on an odd or even page?
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I want the note middle-C to be denoted in bass clef in GarageBand
I'm trying to generate a PDF of music sheet with GarageBand, but there's a problem.
Even though I play an arpeggio F-A-C-E-G, the note C3 (middle-C) is denoted in treble clef.1 Even if I moved it down ...
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How to count and play this notation? [duplicate]
This is a measure from Yann Tiersen's "La Valse D'Amelie".
The very first measure of this piece has a 2/4 time signature:
The rest of the measures are like below. Just counting the note ...
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Is there standard notation for guitar left hand barres of natural harmonics?
I'm a self taught guitarrist and hobby musician who composes original music and who creates transcriptions/arrangements of music from other artists for classical guitar.
I've recently learned about ...
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8va or clef change?
I've been transcribing music on and off for a few years now as a hobby and noticed while reading someone else's sheets that they have heaps of clef changes midway through the piece. It sort of blew my ...
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In a classical guitar score, when a section plays very low notes, is it better to use 8va bassa, G clef transposed 1 octave down or the F clef?
My music knowledge background
I never studied music in a music school, but I've composed music for some years and know some theory that I've picked up and read about over the years. I do not have much ...
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What is this quadruple-dotted X above the staff?
At the end of Shiro Sagisu's Robe Des Champs (KK_A09_miyagi), there is a dotted X with brackets covering two bars.
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Unknown notation - thick horizontal bars between notes
I haven't the faintest idea of what these bars could mean. They're thick and mostly horizontal with a slight tilt. Some sort of run perhaps? How do you effect the dynamics/notes these bars are ...
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Tips for learning and memorizing passages consisting of groups of only slightly different notes?
Not sure how to word it better. I give two examples below. On the right hand (treble clef), the small groups of notes have similar patterns but vary slightly, sometimes just an accidental's difference....
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Violin - Sheet music notation for playing the same note at the same time
On the violin you can play a double stop where you are playing 4th finger on the D string (A note) while playing the open A string. This means that you are playing the A note on both strings. How ...
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