notehead

There are three key parts of a note: the note head, the stem, and the flag or beam.

Triangle note heads can be useful when writing for percussion instruments or differentiating between different kinds of strike styles. Circled notes are also often used in percussion, and can again indicate the use of cross-stick on a drum kit, or to bring certain notes to the musician's attention.

Definitions of musical note. a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound.

Notes quantify the pitch and duration of a musical sound. The higher up the staff a note is, the higher its pitch. The note head and flag determine the relative time that the note is to be played for. The shape of the note head determines whether the note is to be played as a fundamental or as a harmonic .

In traditional Indian music, musical notes are called svaras and commonly represented using the seven notes, Sa, Re, Ga, Ma, Pa, Dha and Ni.

What are the seven musical notes? There are 7 musical notes, which are the first seven letters of the alphabet. Each musical note is assigned the name of A, B, C, D, E, F, or G.

"DELTA (△) SYMBOL. Introduced into music notation to symbolize a major seventh chord by the late John Coltrane."

Notehead groups

• Normal: A standard notehead.
• Crosshead (Ghost note): Used in percussion notation to represent cymbals.
• Diamond: Used to indicate harmonic notes in instruments such as the guitar, violin etc.
• Slash: Used to notate rhythmic values.
• Triangle: Used in percussion notation.

12 The musical scale is based on our perception of frequency, and harmonic relationships between frequencies. The choice of 12 evenly spaced notes is based on the so-called circle of fifths. Frequencies that are harmonically related tend to sound good together.

Melody, harmony, rhythm, and form and the expressive elements of dynamics, tempo, and timbre (tone color).

Western music typically uses 12 notes – C, D, E, F, G, A and B, plus five flats and equivalent sharps in between, which are: C sharp/D flat (they're the same note, just named differently depending on what key signature is being used), D sharp/E flat, F sharp/G flat, G sharp/A flat and A sharp/B flat.

Likewise, he found that people could remember a sequence of up to seven tones, but not much more. This limit on short-term memory capacity was termed “the magical number seven, plus or minus two”. This may be one reason why we use seven notes in our scales, rather than 12, in order to help us remember more easily.