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Confused about the natural symbol (♮) and the omnipresence of the C major scale in music theory
There are several good explanations of the background already in other answers. Let me add in a few details.
To begin with, the system proposed in the question exists in several forms already. It is ...
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What does this symbol represent? "x" with four dots
The fact, that some features were surprisingly stable in musical notation over the centuries receives little attention compared to those features, which changed significantly, see similar questions ...
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What does this symbol represent? "x" with four dots
It’s to mark something important, I use it all the time
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Confused about the natural symbol (♮) and the omnipresence of the C major scale in music theory
The natural symbol (♮) is an undercover agent sent by the C major scale. In other words, the natural symbol (♮) is totally linked to the C major scale. Is this statement correct?
No, it has nothing ...
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Confused about the natural symbol (♮) and the omnipresence of the C major scale in music theory
"The use of natural symbols in modern music theory is not relative
to the current key signature, but always absolute as it always refer
to the C major scale. Is this statement a rewording of my ...
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Confused about the natural symbol (♮) and the omnipresence of the C major scale in music theory
There's no short answer to this interesting question.
Going back a long, long time, music was not written down, so no staves were needed, but when came the time that it was necessitated, a certain ...
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Bach BWV 817: what do the slashes between the notes of a chord mean?
This is a slur.
As explained in the foreword to Henry Purcell: Suites, Lessons and Pieces for the Harpsichord (J&W Chester, London, 1919):
and that is indeed how it's played.
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Do accidentals on ornaments apply to the same notes elsewhere in the measure?
It's obvious that B♯ will be played on the same piano key as C♮.
So, there would be no point in writing B♯ in the same triplet as two C ♮ notes. Thus it will be conclusive that the accidental shown in ...
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What is a line prall?
About three years too late for you, but this maybe helpful to others. I have found that pralls are really just the same thing as trill lines. Uppralls do a slide up into the trill notes, and the ...
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Gm+6 Chord notation
The latest picture indicates that this is a Gm+6 chord.
Since there is a Gm6/4 chord earlier in the excerpt, I am forced to assume that the "+6" means "add6" and the resulting ...
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Gm+6 Chord notation
Other answers have missed that this is a G minor chord (they all suggest using B natural). Especially given the context and the preceding Gm chord, this is almost certainly a G minor triad, G Bb D, ...
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Gm+6 Chord notation
While there are several different chord label systems the ones you see most often are pretty consistent and the most common chords used in songs will be fairly obvious to read in those different ...
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Gm+6 Chord notation
This just MIGHT be an attempt to apply chord symbols to 'classical' harmony. There is a chord called an Augmented 6th.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augmented_sixth_chord
An Augmented 6th rooted on ...
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Gm+6 Chord notation
Just like John, after decades of reading music, this is a first. Probably written by someone who didn't have much of a clue!
With some surrounding bits, or a snippet of the song at that point, it ...
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Gm+6 Chord notation
First I’d like to point out that in decades of playing and reading music I have never encountered this specific symbol so it is probably an error or a symbol created by someone that doesn’t quite know ...
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How to play this rhythm in Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata? as a 4/3 polyrythm or as 6/16?
Yes it’s weird that people usually just play this rhythm oversimplifying it like 5/6+1/6, despite the mentioned recommendation of Czerny.
In my opinion, the polyrhythm option gives a great room for ...
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Notation of a sustained note
I am assuming you want the B and C notes to be played one after the other. If you want to write this on a single staff you must use 2 voices with stems up for one and stems down for the other. The A ...
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How Do I Insert Markup (ritardando) Without a Note
In the latest stable version of LilyPond (2.24), there's a new \after music function for this purpose:
\after 2 ^\markup{\italic rit.} ees1
You can push more than one expressive mark into the future ...
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Half notes with slashed stem
Just in case a total music nerd comes across this: a note stem with slash is the modern transcription of a "plica" in Modal (meaning: 12th/13th century School of Notre Dame) notation.
A ...
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Four dots over tremolo minim (half note with slash)
Here's another example of 4 dots over a half note with a slash from Chopin's Prelude No. 15:
The same bars from IMPSL:
And here's the more commonly used notation:
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/...
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