Musical notation

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 147. Chapters: Clef, Time signature, Staff, Note, Key signature, Orchestration, Solfège, Figured bass, Guido of Arezzo, Sheet music, Accidental, Ledger line, Quarter note, Eighth note, Staccato, Sharp, Half note, Flat, Whole note, Meter, Da capo, Time unit box system, Chord names and symbols, Eye movement in music reading, List of musical symbols, Tablature, Mensural notation, Neume, Numbered musical notation, Shape note, Braille music, Sight reading, Rhythmic mode, Dynamics, Eye music, Pitch class, Swung note, Sonido 13, Colored music notation, Scientific pitch notation, Rehearsal letter, Swara, Canntaireachd, Gongche notation, Transcription, Fingering, Soundpainting, Time Structured Mapping, Coda, Dotted note, Note value, Guqin notation, Graphic notation, Rest, Ligature, Klavarskribo, Grace note, Znamenny chant, Tongan music notation, Bar, Dancing Dots, Theoretical key, Caesura, Simplified Music Notation, Ghost note, Compound meter, Tonic sol-fa, Chord chart, Kepatihan notation, OLGA, Letter notation, Ring Tone Transfer Language, Trumpet tablature, Keyboard tablature, Helmholtz pitch notation, Numerical sight-singing, Shorthand for orchestra instrumentation, Solmization, Music engraving, Alla breve, Daseian notation, Lead sheet, Double whole note, Half time, Jacob Isaacson, Ovation Press, MusicWriter, Fermata, Extension, Tempo giusto, Piano transcription, Intabulation, Elastic scoring, Sixteenth note, Macro analysis, Parsons code, Shakuhachi musical notation, Slur, Hundred twenty-eighth note, Tenuto, Thirty-second note, Rastrum, Sixty-fourth note, Note head, Qinpu, Sotto voce, Repeat sign, Segue, Additive meter, Musical tone, Longa, Double-time, Beam, Ossia, Tutti, Natural, Natural sign, TabWiki, Dal Segno, Piano-vocal score, Nashville number system, Maestoso, Prolation, Tonsilabo, Orchestral reduction, Partbook, Tacet, Unfigured bass, Accarezzévole, Breath mark, Staccatissimo, OpenOMR, A due, Mensurstrich, Vivace, Kari, Manuscript paper, Bent note, A capriccio, Pesante, Piano reduction, Line notation, Dotted quarter note, Stentato, Verso sciolto, Ekphonetic notation, Colossale, Notations, Fortepiano, Kräftig, Dead Note. Excerpt: Various kinds of chord names and symbols are used in different contexts, to represent musical chords. In jazz and popular music, a chord name and the corresponding symbol are typically composed of one or more of the following parts: For instance, the name C augmented seventh, and the corresponding symbol Caug7, or C+7, are both composed of parts 1, 2, and 3. All this parts, except for the root, do not directly refer to the notes forming the chord, but to the intervals they form with respect to the root. For instance, Caug7 is formed by the notes C-E-G-B. However, its name and symbol refer only to the root note C, the augmented (fifth) interval from C to G, and the (minor) seventh interval from C to B. A set of decoding rules is applied to deduce the missing information. Although they are used occasionally in classical music, these names and symbols are "universally used in jazz and popular music", usually inside lead sheets, fake books, and chord charts, to specify the harmony of compositions. Other notation systems for chords include: plain staff notation, used in classical music, Roman numerals, commonly used in harmonic analysis, figured bass, much used in the Baroque era, and macro symbols, sometimes used in modern musicology. Any chord can be denoted using staff notation, showin...