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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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Opposite of a Fermata?

However, there is no such thing in standard (modern) musical notation. The only way to shorten a single measure is to temporarily change the time-signature and/or the tempo. … But, as a composer living in the 21st century, feel free to introduce your own ad-hoc notation. Just be sure to add a note in your score explaining what the notation means. …
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Is a rest required at the end of the final measure of a piece?

To simplify Tim H's answer: In traditional music notation, in a piece with a single time signature, the total number of beats with or without a repeat must be a multiple of the number of beats in the …
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