Accidental symbol

In music, an accidental is a note of a pitch (or pitch class) that is not a member of the scale or mode indicated by the most recently applied key signature. In musical notation, the sharp (♯), flat (♭), and natural (♮) symbols, among others, mark such notes—and those symbols are also called accidentals.

1. What is natural accidental symbol?
2. What are the five accidental symbols?
3. What do you call the two accidental symbols?
4. Why are sharps flats and naturals called accidentals?

What is natural accidental symbol?

In musical notation, a natural sign (♮) is an accidental sign used to cancel a flat or sharp from either a preceding note or the key signature.

What are the five accidental symbols?

The most commonly used accidentals in music are the sharp (♯), the flat (♭), and the natural (♮). These accidentals raise or lower a pitch by a half-step, making the pitch either higher or lower than it was before the accidental.

What do you call the two accidental symbols?

In musical notation, the sharp (♯), flat (♭), and natural (♮) symbols, among others, are used to mark such notes, and those symbols may themselves be called accidentals.

Why are sharps flats and naturals called accidentals?

They were originally called accidentals because they occur only occasionally in the course of a musical composition, and are thus distinguishable from the signs of similar import written in the key signature and forming part of the normal scale.