Questions tagged [notation]
For questions about visual representation of music and its uses. If the question is about a specific type of notation like tablature, that should also be tagged. Questions about how to input specific notation are best served with the engraving tag.
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Why the usual clef for guitar is G?
Analyzing by two parameters, polyphony and range, musics written for guitar should use two clefs, G and F. Usually, solo guitar has a polyphonical expression. Writing two melodies in a single stave ...
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Lilypond: How to write - when the left hand should play more than the number of notes per bar as per the time signature
This is what I am aiming for:
How can I tell LilyPond that the c1 in the first three measures is to be played by the thumb of the left hand in parallel with the other three notes also played by the ...
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Dash symbol above or below a note [duplicate]
The dash symbol or the horizontal bar at the F G A in the first measure and at A B C in the third measure, what is it called? Looking at the video, I could not tell what was unusual. (Measure 25 and ...
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Instrumental intro on "Piano and melody with lyrics" score in LilyPond
I am creating a LilyPond piano/vocal score starting with the Template A.3.2 Piano and melody with lyrics. In my piece, there will be several bars of instrumental introduction before the vocal line ...
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Lilypond: Putting left hand notes on treble clef - one more question
Similar to my earlier question -
How to put Left hand notes on the treble clef
But this still has me stumped -
This is what I am trying to achieve:
This is what I am getting:
My right hand is:
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Multiple staccato dots on minim with tremolo repeat in Lilypond
I'm writing a piano reduction of Gustav Mahler's 4th Symphony (to help study the score and practice music notation, but mainly just for kicks 'n' grins) using GNU LilyPond. (Yes, I know, I'm totally ...
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How to put Left hand notes on the treble clef
I want to put a note to be played by the left hand on the treble clef - using LilyPond.
How can this be done?
What I want to achieve is like this:
This is how my code looks right now:
Right Hand:
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Notating the 3rd and 5th of an augmented chord
I am transposing a piano solo which is in A major. At a certain point (3rd beat of bar 7) the piano plays a dyad which consists of what I would normally call Eb and G natural (a major third apart). ...
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Notation Question - Augmented vs. Diminished for Accidental
Another noob question, sorry if it is trivial or stoopid...
I am notating a song that I wrote and question the correct way to notate an accidental. I suppose it is technically correct to notate ...
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What's going on in this musical notation?
The notation snippet below is from the cover of a Composition textbook. The cover has a pale blue background and pale green notes, so I changed it to be black on white to make it easier to read.
From ...
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Was a 13-line (6 over 7) staff system ever in wide use?
On the Wikipedia article for Passacaglia, there is an excerpt of a piece by 17th-century composer Bernardo Storace. It has a 6-line staff with both G and C clefs above a 7 line staff with both C and ...
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Beams broken/unbroken with rests - meaning and usage
Shown in the circled parts of the image, are two different ways of representing a beam that spans a sixteenth note - a sixteenth rest - a sixteenth note
In one of them, the beam is broken at the rest,...
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Making a melodic line stand out in written score
I'm arranging an orchestral piece for solo piano, and find myself transcribing a passage with a single melodic line in the lower register, which to play on piano should alternate between the left and ...
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What was the first published "cutaway/cut-out" score?
Sometimes scores are formatted so that silent measures are completely omitted—not just left empty, but left blank, including the staff. The oldest score in this style that I have seen is Lutosławski's ...
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Bass Guitar Nomenclature for Intermediate Players
My call for advice involves music nomenclature of intermediate-level bass players who can’t read sheet music. I am such a bass player, self-taught and want to take my playing to the next level. My ...
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In sheet music, can notes of a chord have different length, or how to read this sheet?
I have some sheet music that I'm trying to understand, but I'm unfamiliar with the correct terminology and my understanding of it (just starting out learning music).
Specifically, the notes that are ...
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Notating a sus chord with thirteenth
How do you notate a chord like G F A C E without using slash notation? G13sus? G13sus4?
If it’s along the lines of a G13, this leads to me to wonder why the chord G F A C is usually notated as G9sus4 ...
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how to disconnect two notes
I’m rewriting a sheet of music where the first two notes are separate, but lilypond connect them. How to disconnect those two 1/8 notes?
Thanks.
see exemple: http://lilybin.com/rexyws/1
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How do I play two bass clefs sharing piano keys? [duplicate]
I have some sheet music for the song Mad World. Part way though the treble clef on the grand staff changes to bass, which is fine, but a few bars later I hit a snag.
In bar 7 both hands are given the ...
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Orchestral score has inconsistent time signature changes and note lengths
I'm learning music notation and as both a fan and enthusiast I bought the Star Trek: The Motion Picture film score from Omni Music Publishing. Unfortunately, I've encountered a confusing bit of ...
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What does a B on a note stem in guitar music mean?
I found B's on note stems in sheet music of the 3rd movement of the Libra Sonatine, "Fuoco", by Roland Dyens, which is for guitar:
What does that B on a note stem mean in this guitar music? ...
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Which came first: the dot or the tie?
In considering the question of the benefits of dots versus ties for extending note values, I got to wondering about the origins of those two notations.
Did one emerge before the other?
For what ...
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How to notate a phrase than goes up and down several octaves
I have several bars of sixteenth notes that span quite a large range on the keyboard, and also go up and down the length of four octaves on the keyboard quite rapidly. I am not sure about how best to ...
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How long should the note modifiers be played? [duplicate]
There is a D natural modifier at the begining here. Does that mean that all of the D's in the bass clef are natural or just this specific one?
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Lilypond error: Loose column does not have right side to attach to
in every song that I compile there is the message: "programming error: " but at the same time Frescobaldi says: "Completed successfully in 1.9" Why that error?
Lilypond code below:
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What do the rests in this bar mean? [duplicate]
I don't understand what the half note rest means at the start of this measure. If it's a half note rest then why are all the notes in the chord not half notes? Same question for the eight note rest ...
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Small note in standard notation (not ossia)
In this bar from "Sundown", by Gordon Lightfoot, there is a small note (F):
I'm pretty sure it is not an ossia, since it does not occur at the same time as another note, and it does not ...
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How can I notate this better in 12/8 time?
Can I write tied notes instead of half notes? tied dotted quarter + an eighth note? If not how can I write this better?
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Where can I find music written in baritone and mezzo-soprano clefs?
I use C clefs as tools for transposition, and while it's relatively easy to find music written in alto, tenor, and soprano clefs, I've never found a consistent source for music in baritone and mezzo-...
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Rewriting a measure in 6/8
How can I rewrite this? What I did wasn't right, so I was wondering if there was another way to rewrite it. It's in 6/8.
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When transposing songs from major key to minor key, should it be natural minor or harmonic minor?
I noticed that people can transpose songs from major key to minor key vice versa, but I'm wondering that should a major key be transposed to natural minor or harmonic minor? I'm confused
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How to notate an arpeggio that anticipates the beat
The last chord of a piece of music I wrote has an arpeggio in the right hand and not in the left. I want the top note in the right chord to fall on the beat so that it matches with the chord in the ...
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How to write a double sharp in a figured bass symbol
Here is an image of the exercise I am doing. I'm supposed to write the figured bass symbol underneath the chord label but I am not sure if this is right. I just put a double sharp next to the 3. Can ...
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How to calculate notes beats and properly draw notes beams?
I am fairly new to music theory and i find these 2 topics related but not explained in depth in...pretty much every resource i have found.
How are beats normally calculated? I went through the ...
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can someone explain me how many beats in my notation in the photo?
I'm confused about notation in my music sheet for my training classical guitar, in this photo there are 2 beats notation (orange circle) but the time signature is 3/4, can someone explain me how many ...
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What this is, and how can it be put into Sibelius?
If you look at the bass staff, there is one more 16th note than there should be on a 4/4 time signature. Can someone explain this to me? And what is the number of top of the barline?
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Why is a third-space C on the staff played on the second-string, 1st guitar fret? [duplicate]
I am reading Classic Guitar for Dummies by Chappell, Jon; Phillips, Mark. Classical Guitar For Dummies® (p. 83). Wiley. Kindle Edition.
The question comes from a direct statement in the text, which I ...
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Interpreting Concert Scores
(Perhaps somewhat unusually) I understand how a transposed score works, but I don't understand the details of how "concert score" works – it's not as simple as: show every note at sounding ...
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Notehead direction in keyboard style 4-part harmony
Can someone please explain to me which of the last two chords is written correctly and why? What are the rules for writing the soprano stem going up?
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Error and flat notes
Lilypond gives me an error in the second line but I can't find out where it is.
Plus in the last line all the F note are flat (ff) but the second F note even if it is written correctely do not show ...
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Tempo marking for double time
I came across a marking in music where it says that the quarter note = half note and then says double time. I don't understand why the notation implies double time. Can someone explain how saying the ...
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Note naming system with one unique name per note
Is there any note naming system out there that uses the normal note names for non-accidental notes (A,B,C,D,E,F,G) but has one syllable unique names for the accidental notes?
I find it frustrating ...
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Ignored rest at the beginning of a section
I'm entering some fiddle music into Guitar Pro 7.5 and trying to handle a second section.
At the beginning of the second section, the bar is short (only two eighth notes) just like an anacrusis, but ...
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What is this curve going upwards to a note that's also detached from the previous note? [duplicate]
In Cedric Dent's "He's Got The Whole World In His Hands, this symbol appears attached to the note on "-ands." From first glance, it seems like a poorly drawn legato, but there is a ...
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two alternatives for one song in a bookpart
I am making a music book where each song is on its own page. The code for each song is:
title = ...
music = ...
\bookpart {
\header {
title = \title
}
\score {
\music
\layout { }
}
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notation for different versions of melody
I have a simple song for which I know two melodies to play. They are not played simultaneously - one has to choose between one of them.
What is the common/standard notation for that?
As far as I know, ...
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Lilypond: modifying woodwind diagrams
Regarding woodwind diagram in LilyPond as:
\markup {
\center-column {
\override #'(size . 0.7) {
\woodwind-diagram #'flute #'((cc . (oneF two three four five six))
(lh . (...
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Left aligning copyright in Lilypond
Is it possible to left-align the copyright information in Lilypond instead of the default center-alignment?
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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 ...
