a perpendicular line with bracket joining multiple staves
Bracket
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Extension
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an horizontal line (or broken line) placed next to the right of a symbol to show that a symbol must be maintained during the…
Great staff
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A combination of the bass clef and treble clef staves with the common line between them
System
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notation of a line of music including all the parts and voices involved, presented in a group of two or more staves which are…
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…
Barline
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a vertical line drawn across the staff to mark off measures of a particular length, containing a number of notes whose total…
Basso ostinato
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ground bass, a pattern repeated several times over in the bass line to accompany one or more ever varying upper parts
Bar
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a vertical line used to metrically divide music into groups of beats see Staff, Barline, & Clef
C1, C2, C3, C4, ……
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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…