Sechzehntelnote

A directive to perform the indicated passage of a composition in a dry, unornamented, cold manner. Also, it implies that the note should be of short duration, similar to a staccato.

Music notes are symbols that denote a musical sound. Notes also represent the pitch and duration of the sound, known as musical notation. Therefore, knowing the music notes meaning helps the musician not only read music, but understand the rhythm the notes should follow.

In musical notation, tenuto (Italian, past participle of tenere, "to hold"), denoted as a horizontal bar adjacent to a note, is a direction for the performer to hold or sustain a note for its full length.

artificial harmonic A square, diamond, or box shaped notehead may be used to indicate a natural or artificial harmonic. A small notehead can be used to indicate a grace note. Parts of the note Noteheads of quarter (and all further subdivisions), half, whole, and double whole notes Left: breve in modern notation.

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The second (s or sec) is the International System of Units (SI) unit of time measurement. One second is the time that elapses during 9,192,631,770 (or 9.192631770 x 109 in decimal form) cycles of the radiation produced by the transition between two levels of the cesium-133 atom.

A frequency is a representation of pitch measured by Hz. Hertz represent how many times a sound wave vibrates in one second. So a note measured at 440 Hz completes 440 vibrations per second. Slow vibrations, or lower values, result in deeper pitches, while faster vibrations (higher values) sound higher.

Frequencies for equal-tempered scale, A4 = 440 Hz

The sustain pedal removes the dampers from the strings, allowing notes to ring out for longer, even when the keys are not held down anymore. That's why it is also called the “damper” pedal.

The 'pause' sign itself is one of the most instantly recognisable in music: a half-circle over a dot, rather like a raised eyebrow over a tiny but penetrating eye. If a pause symbol is placed over a note, you hold the note for longer than its indicated duration.

During the late 11th and early 12th centuries the so-called square notation evolved as a stylisation of the French neumes. They were written on a four-line staff system derived from the use of lines introduced by Guido of Arezzo. Likewise this notation system adopted the use of the letters C and F as clefs.

neumes You can't get too far into Catholic sacred music without running into "neumes," those little square notes on four lines that look beautiful if oddly antiquated. Most people have no idea how to read them, and most trained musicians are as much at a loss as anyone else.