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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J.S. Bach: March in C?
I found a copy of the notes to "March in C" by J.S. Bach, see image attached. I’d like to learn more about it, but surprisingly, I can't find information or recordings online.
Can anyone ...
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What's this curved line after this note?
It's not a slur because it doesn't connect to any other notes, so what is it?
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Standard sheet music file
I am working on a project that converts raw sheet music into MIDI, mp3 files. I did this because right now many of the sheet music players I have heard are very bad and I think I can do better. In ...
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Best place to buy good quality sheet music for violin? [closed]
My son would like to try to play songs that are not in his school book. The challenge we are facing is that every time we search for a song we are faced with tens, if not more, different sheets and we ...
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Liszt Transcendental Étude No.1 (Prelude) -- Piano zu 7 Oktaven -- which order to play?
In Franz Liszt Transcendental Étude No.1 (Prelude) --
There is something saying "Piano zu 7 Oktaven" --
my question:
Which is the ordering to play these bars?
Am I understanding correctly ...
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accidentals of the treble and bass clef
I don't understand why we have to write the key signature on the bass line?
It's already precise on the treble line, so we already know the tonality of the piece.
What's more, is it possible in this ...
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Has Belwin Mills improved their bookbinding?
I'm sitting here looking at three separate books of sheet music for piano published as Kalmus Piano Series by Belwin-Mills. You know the ones; they have a cover in a solid color (often red or orange) ...
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Which staff does the dynamic apply to [duplicate]
The dynamic is in between the two staves, so does it apply to the upper staff, lower staff or both staves?
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Mozart K331 Rondo Alla Turca m.55 discrepancy (Urtext vs Urtext?)
I have the Wiener Urtext edition of the Mozart K331 (see cover image). As you can see in the picture, the 4th note of measure 55 of the Rondo Alla Turca is A (E#FGA). However, I saw two videos where ...
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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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What does this number between these 2 staff mean? [duplicate]
Johan Strauss Jr - The Beautiful Blue Danube
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In which cadence can parents reasonably expect multiple key signatures to be introduced in piano instruction?
If a child starts to play the piano at six (at or about the beginning of Grade 1) with a teacher, reading sheet music from the first lesson, at what point can one reasonably expect the pupil/teacher ...
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What is the meaning of this New Year's Resolution joke using music sheet notations?
I came across this joke while browsing the social medias of some piano dealers:
The picture depicts two staves: the one above with a G clef and the one below with the F clef. The time signature is 4 ...
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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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What do these little triangles above the note mean for Euphonium/Trombone? [duplicate]
This was from a Complete Method For Trombone & Euphonium, by Joseph Alessi and Dr. Brian Bowmen. Called Arban. Page 17 of the book.
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Kuhlau Op. 55 No. 2 Movement 3 Measures 79~81 discrepancy in different editions
I'm learning Kuhlau's Sonatina Op. 55 No. 2, 3rd movement. I have the book of Kuhlau sonatinas edited by Keith Snell (see pic). I also watched the score shown in this youtube video. I found they ...
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Formatting First and Second Repetitions
Anytime I'm formatting a score with first and second repetitions I struggle on how should I write them in the score. I tend to do 4 bars for each staff (not counting pick up bars) unless the melody's ...
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Piano notes not placed as they should [duplicate]
I am reading piano music (treble clef) and there are two notes on top of each other. Yes, I know what a chord is but notes for chords are usually connected right? And the stem of the note shouldn’t be ...
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What is this "<>" thing above a note
It looks like a crescendo and a decrescendo on one note, but I don't think that's it:
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Can someone please tell me what is written on this score?
I found this writing on a certain sheet music, but I can't read it:
Can someone please tell me what this writing says, and what it means?
The composer is G. Donizetti, and the title of the piece is ...
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Notes on treble line extend down to bass line
What is happening when some notes extend down from the treble to the bass on this piano score? Piece is 'Wandering Sprite' by JC Engelbrecht
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Understanding How to Play Chord Symbols
I am 3 months into my guitar journey and I've been learning the basics with a book that's available at home. The book jumps into chords pretty quickly and is relatively clear but leaves a lot to the ...
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I want to learn transcribing music, where should I start? [closed]
I found a music notation app called Musescore, I fell in love with exploring it and started recreating music scores from another user's score for my practice, and also I started to learn video ...
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Tremolo strokes above stems with flags
Is it okay to draw tremolo strokes above/below stems with flags for more readability? Otherwise, it looks a bit tight when tremolo strokes are positioned right on a stem with a flag:
Also, I just don'...
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What pickup time signature is this [closed]
How can you have an eighth note quadruplet and three eighth notes after. And how can you have a quadruplet with a dotted half note and two quarter notes?
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How should I read the timing on this measure of Rachmaninoff 32 10?
I'm working on Rachmaninoff's piano prelude Op 32 No 10, and I'm having trouble combining the left and right hand on m. 47 (screenshot below).
Basically, I can't figure out which right hand notes line ...
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Ties for Chords
Are the chords should be always tied like this? Or there are rules when the ties should connect top/bottom of note heads in chords?
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15 tongue steel drum sheet music symbol meanings
The music has numbers ( 1 or sometimes more)that are underscored _ once and sometimes twice. Meaning??
Phrase marks?
Brackets connecting a group of numbers?
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Eighth-note missing from score?
In this version of sheet music "The Rain" by Joe Hisaishi, how should I read this line?
It seems that voice y in measure 42 is missing one eighth note (between eighth note B in treble clef ...
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Were the correct enharmonics used here?
I’m still a bit new to properly writing out sheet music, so I was wondering if the last few measures (see image below) were written out correctly. If they aren’t, then which ones are wrong and why (...
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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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Notating Sheet Music with Strict Tempo for Accompaniment but Rubato for Vocalist
I have some sheet music for vocal + piano accompaniment where I want to notate that the vocalist should feel out the rhythms and phrases and sing expressively while the pianist maintains a steady ...
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How to notate 3 quarters framed by eighths?
Context: I recently transcribed a Piano solo piece in MuseScore 4. It was based on a different person's transcription that used ♩ = 70 as tempo marking. My transcription initially used the same tempo. ...
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What does this diagonal line in the drums sheet music mean?
As the title says, what does the indicated line in the figure mean in a drum sheet music?
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Regarding the music notation symbol "simili"
I have been researching the music notation symbol "simili" after coming across it in the piano score for Debussy's "Passepied" from the "Suite bergamasque".
The score ...
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Spacing in tuplets (in sheet-music)
I am trying to understand whether it's okay to have different spaces within tuplets in case if I have other voices, or should I aim somehow to have even spaces in tuplets?
Here is an example:
For me ...
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Changing the time signature so all notes fit in one bar
I'm currently making sheet music for a song that isn't mine and I know it's in 4/4 but as the song progresses, there's no way I can fit all notes in that time signature, so I'm changing it to 6/4, 7/4,...
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Optional notes in baroque clavier score?
I'm not a keyboard player so I'm not sure what the smaller notes in this score mean. Are they optional like an ossia or something to be played on a repeat or something else?
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How do you represent different instrument of the same section alternating a part?
I've composed a passage with an upper tonic pedal point in the flutes. Problem is that the pedal point lasts 51 bars in an adagio tempo(roughly 2 minutes), and nobody would be able to play a ...
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Sharp getting erased without notation in Rachmaninoff's Prelude in C# Minor
On the sixth measure of Rachmaninoff's Prelude in C# Minor there is a second chord that appears to be D#-E-D#. I didn't think that this sounded quite right, and in all the videos I've watched it's ...
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When is the "d" in "Goldfinger" sung?
I noticed that some choirs will synch up their consonants while singing. Is there a standard approach for timing consonants? For the sake of example, here's a cropped portion of sheet music (source):
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Same note on two staves in a piano score
These are bars 56–59 in Patrik Pietschmann's arrangement of Hans Zimmer's "Interstellar Main Theme"
How does one deal with the Es that appear in both staves?
The first two bars I can play ...
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Idiomatic guitar notation; notating L.V. passages?
I'm conflicted. I have this passage (note: tuning = DADGBE, D2 notated as D2):
First, this is incorrect, as I'm not including the three beat rest in the third bar for the second-from-the-top voice, ...
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F#5 or Fx5 in La Campanella m. 128?
In MuseScore version 3.6.2 I see it being F##5 indeed, but the next note in line is also F##, but looking into how it looks like in Piano visualiser that first one must be a mistake.
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A standard way of marking alternate tunings for classical guitar?
I'm writing a piece that needs to have a drop D tuning- how do I mark the guitar's tuning at the top of the score? Is there a standard? Something like "E = D" or just "DADGBE"? ...
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What are the notes in that circled? [duplicate]
Are the circled notes below : F, G, F and then D? I try to understand music sheet. I tried to find F notes in the song, African Suite, Op. 35: II. Love-Song but I can't find them.
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Trouble reading sheet music - identifying sharp note [duplicate]
I have watched this YouTube video and wanted to play it myself. I downloaded the sheet music from his description. In the following image I have marked the first incident where I wasn't sure about the ...
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What are the rules i need to follow when writing for the piano?
Okay so i recently discovered writing in 4 part harmony and now i'm really confused, i saw people say that you don't need to follow the same rules for piano. But, are there any rules or guidelines for ...
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Multiple Voices in "Rock" Piano
I generally get the idea of "multiple voices" in music such as explained in this question and answer.
Is it also correct that in modern (e.g. non-classical) music multiple voices are used to ...
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identify a piano etude by music score of initial bars [closed]
Please help identify a piano etude from the below score. Conventional apps (Shazam, SoundHound) seem to fail.