a vertical line drawn across the staff to mark off measures of a particular length, containing a number of notes whose total time value is set by the time signature see Staff, Barline, & Clef See Elements of Standard Notation for Classical Guitar see Elements of Tablature for Classical Guitar
Barline
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Bar
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a vertical line used to metrically divide music into groups of beats see Staff, Barline, & Clef
Baritone Clef
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See clef in Staff, Barline, & Clef
Barre
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a device that clamps to the neck of a plucked string instrument and which change its tuning by shortening the sounding length…
Beam Grouping
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Notes beamed in groups in a manor to distinguish the beats in a measure. See Elements of Standard Notation for Classical Guit…
B1, B2, B3, B4, ……
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A single finger holding multiple strings on a stringed instrument at the same time. Symbol used in standard notation for guit…
Biwa
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a short necked Japanese lute, used in the seventh century in gagaku, with a cranked neck. played with an oversized plectrum.…
Borrowed division
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a term used to describe when a note is divided into an unusual number of smaller notes, for example, when three quarter notes…
Breath mark
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where, by use of a mark like a large comma or apostrophe placed above the stave, the composer requests that the performer bre…