the flag attached to the tail of a note to show its length
Coda uncinata
Language: Italian
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Code uncinate
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the flags attached to the tail of a note to show their length
Acciaccatura
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Grace note; crushed note, written with a diagonal line through the note hook or flag
Staccatissimo
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an extreme form of staccato, often taken to indicate that one should shorten the note thus marked to one quarter of its writt…
Staccato
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a dot above the note indicating that the note thus marked should be shortened to half its written length, the second half rep…
Fermata
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musical symbol placed over a note or rest to be extended beyond its normal duration See fermata in Note Symbols see fermata i…
Coda
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passage ended onto the end of a composition see in Repeats, D.S.,D.C....
Codetta
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a passage within a composition in sonata form which, while resembling a coda, occurs at the end of the exposition rather than…
Capo d'astro
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device that clamps to the neck of a guitar and which change its tuning by shortening the sounding length of every string