signs

Composers use a range of signs and symbols to show how they want their music to be played. This was essential in times before music could be recorded and replayed, but it is still important today.

There are seven main musical figures, ordered from largest to smallest:

• Whole note, marks four strokes (4).
• Half note, two strokes (2).
• Quarter note, one stroke (1).
• The eighth note, half a beat (1/2).
• Sixteenth note, beats a quarter of a beat (1/4).
• Thirty-second note, one eighth of a beat (1/8).

In music, a note is the representation of a musical sound. Notes can represent the pitch and duration of a sound in musical notation. A note can also represent a pitch class.

cymbal: (noun) a percussion instrument consisting of a concave brass disk; makes a loud crashing sound when hit with a drumstick or when two are struck together. symbol: (noun) an arbitrary sign (written or printed) that has acquired a conventional significance.

Understanding: Signs and symbols can convey complex ideas and concepts in a way that is easy to understand. They can simplify information and help people to remember important details. Identification: Signs and symbols can be used to identify people, places, objects, and concepts.

In contrast, symbols influence how we feel about something and they work well when we find it difficult to put our thoughts or feelings into words. In visual art, an artist's use of symbolism, such as the use of colour, placement, scale, pattern and shape, can evoke powerful emotions for artist and observer alike.

Musical symbols are the marks and symbols, used since about the 13th century in the musical notation of musical scores, styles, and instruments, in order to describe pitch, rhythm, tempo – and, to some degree, its articulation (e.g., a composition in its fundamentals).

The earliest physical evidence we do have of human music-making are fragments of bird-bone pipes found deep in caves of the Swabian Alps made roughly 40,000 years ago.

A note indicates both pitch and rhythm . Notes are written on a staff . Notes with a higher frequency (shorter wavelength) are written higher on the staff than notes with a lower frequency (longer wavelength). That is, higher notes are placed above lower ones.

a brief record of something written down to assist the memory or for future reference. notes, a record or outline of a speech, statement, testimony, etc., or of one's impressions of something.

If you look at a piece of music, there are two types of symbols that permeate the score - notes and rests. Notes represent the sounds we hear, while rests represent the sounds we don't hear. Rests are musical symbols that indicate the absence of a sounding note.

Music Symbols with Unicode Values