Can anybody tell me what this sign is called ?
I thought it was a mordent, but why isn't it written above the lines, why is it so short?
Do you know any theory page on it?
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I assume it is an articulation rather as an ornament. While it seems, that it is covered by Unicode as Stroke-2, no explanation is found there. – guidot Nov 21 '16 at 9:46
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1thanks for answering. But shouldn't articulations be written above or below the note (and not next to it) ? – froggy nathy Nov 21 '16 at 10:31
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1@froggynathy A lot of jazz articulations are written next to the note- for example, falls, bends, doits, shakes. They make more sense there, because the symbol is a visual representation of how you play the start/end of the note. – endorph Nov 22 '16 at 0:09
It's a turn, apparently sometimes called a 'flip':
Source: http://www.timusic.net/wp-content/uploads/jazz+artikulation.pdf, Page 6.
