Note

A note ( from the Medieval Latin nota borrowed from Middle High German ) is in music a graphical characters for written recording of a note or a beat in a system of lines. Your placement in the score shows, in connection with a clef, the name of the sound that is to be played. Its outer shape refers to the tone duration, the note value.

Elements of a score mark

A note is usually of a roundish - oval note head, closed or open, depending on the tone duration, and a laterally accreting it note stem ( note stem ) in bar form. The neck is normally done to the right or above, from the third line of the staff, to the left. A solid note head is fully blackened ( quarter, eighth, sixteenth notes, etc.). A hollow note head (half, whole notes ) is represented by a black- edged white surface. The whole note with a tone duration corresponding to four quarter notes, consists only of the - usually a bit bigger and fatter printed - the note head. Notes with one or more tangential "flagged " on the neck indicate smaller - shorter - note values ​​; several such stems are collected into groups with cross- beams, the beam, respectively. A point right behind any note head extends its duration by half the allowable value ( dotted notes ). The notes correspond break values ​​, which are listed with differently shaped break symbols. Also breaks can be extended by a period by half. Other graphic symbols above or below the note head highlight the desired articulation and loudness of a sound.

Designation of written music records

In the plural denote " notes " or " music notes " and the medium on which the music is recorded in written form: for example, as a bound score, manuscript or printed instrumental part of a song ( "You could not rehearse because Markus had his notes at home Lost "). As a collective term for the written record of music is used next to a term music and the expressions notation or " listing " with accompanying adjective " listed ", even if this record does not contain any marks in the narrow sense: for example, in the graphical notation, the other graphics instead of or in addition to note symbols used.