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turn If you're reading music and you see a sort of squiggly line that looks like a sideways 'S' above a note, that's a sign to insert a sort of ornamentation known as a turn. A turn is a unique embellishment that adds a bit of dissonance by playing with the tone on the page, which we'll call the core note.

Simply called an accent. Indicates that note gets played louder (accentuated) than the surrounding notes.

A “greater than” sign above or below a note, called an accent, indicates that the note should be played louder, with special emphasis. A straight line above or below a note, called tenuto, emphasizes that a note is to be held for its full value.

The '2' means play two notes in the time of the usual three. Rather like a triplet in reverse. A little slower, but even.

Sforzando Accent Sforzando is a type of accent. It means to make the note strong, very suddenly. We can imagine this as a kind of exclamation mark on this note. It is marked with sfz on sheet music.

♭ symbol The ♭ symbol universally indicates a flat note. It tells a player to sound a pitch half a tone lower than the written note. For instance, the following image indicates the note A♭ on the treble clef.

These extra lines that are drawn above. The normal five lines of the staff are called ledger lines. There are temporary extra lines that we use when we have a note that goes up. There.

In order to identify middle C on a treble clef. We will look for one ledger line below the bottom line of the staff. On.

Less than (<) and greater than (>)

What is the proper name for this symbol > | Notes and Queries | guardian.co.uk. Any answers? It is properly referred to by mathematicians and everyone else as the "greater than" symbol. However, it can be described/defined as a chevron or an inverted chevron.

A triplet is written by putting a “3” over the top of the notes to show that 3 notes should fit in where there would normally only be 2. So in this example the “3” over the top of the crotchets means that 3 crotchets adds up to 2 beats instead of 3. Play Triplets Audio Example 1.

Reading Music : Note Value