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Western notation symbols

Western notation symbols
  1. What is standard Western notation?
  2. What is Western music notation called?
  3. What are the 7 musical notes?

What is standard Western notation?

Pitched instruments use standard Western classical notation for the pitches and rhythms. In general, notation for unpitched percussion uses the five line staff, with different lines and spaces representing different drum kit instruments. Standard Western rhythmic notation is used to indicate the rhythm.

What is Western music notation called?

Aside from the cuneiform system used by the Greeks, much of music was handed down by oral tradition. Fast forward a few hundred years, though, and the rise of the Medieval era brought the development of neums around the 9th century. A neum is the basic unit of Western music notation (a.k.a. a musical note or sy mbol).

What are the 7 musical notes?

In the chromatic scale there are 7 main musical notes called A, B, C, D, E, F, and G. They each represent a different frequency or pitch. For example, the "middle" A note has a frequency of 440 Hz and the "middle" B note has a frequency of 494 Hz.

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