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Acciaccatura

A short grace note. See →grace note

Accidental

Accidentals appear in front of notes and shift their pitch.
Accidentals are used to alter the pitch of a note within a piece, the same symbols as in the →key signature are used, but they are place before a particular note. Accidentals are for example sharps, flats and naturals. Accidentals affect all notes on the same staff position for the remainder of the measure in which they occur, but it can be cancelled by another accidental.

Appoggiatura

A long grace note. See →grace note

Beam

Notes with a duration of an eighth or smaller either carry a flag or a beam. Beams are used for grouping notes.

BPM

See →metronome mark

Breve

A double whole note or breve is a note that has the duration of two whole notes.

Chord

The minimal definition of a chord is a minimum of two different notes played together. Chords are based on the choices made by a composer between harmonics of one, two or three (and more) fundamental sounds. Ex. In the chord of C, G is the second harmonic, E the fourth of the fundamental C. Now in C7, the B flat is the 6th harmonic of C and in C Maj7 B is the second harmonic of E and the fourth harmonic of G...

Clef

Sign at the beginning of the Staff, used to tell which are the musical notes on the lines and between the lines.
There are 2 F Clefs, 4 C Clefs and 2 G Clefs: F third, F fourth, C first, C second, C third, C fourth, G first, G second (known as treble key too).
G first and F fourth are equivalent.
Clefs are very useful for transposition.

Crotchet

A crotchet is the British english term for what is called a quarter note in American english. It's a quarter of the duration of a whole note (semibreve).

Demisemiquaver

Thirty-second note

Duplet (engl.)

See →tuplet

Flag

See →beam .

Grace note

Grace notes appear as small notes in front of a normal-sized main note. A short grace note (acciaccatura) has a stroke through the stem, A long grace note (appoggiatura) does not.

Hemidemisemiquaver

Sixty-fourth note

Key Signature

Set of sharps or flats at the beginning of the staves. It gives an idea about the tonality and avoids to repeat those signs all along the staff.
A Key Signature with B flat means F major or D minor tonality.

Longa

A longa is a quadruple whole note.

Metronome mark

Metronome marks are usually given by a note length equalling a certain playback speed in bpm. Beats per minute (BPM) is the unit for measuring tempo. In MuseScore, metronome marks are used in tempo .

Minim

A minim is the British term for a half note. It has half the duration of a whole note (semibreve).

Part

Music to be played or sang by one or a group of musicians. In a string quartet, 1st part = Violin 1, 2nd part = Violin 2, 3rd part = Alto, 4th part = Cello.

Quaver

The british quaver is what is called in American eighth note. It has on eighth the duration of a whole note.

Quadruplet

See →tuplet

Quintuplet

See →tuplet

Semibreve

A semibreve is the british term for a whole note. It's last's a whole measure in 4/4 time.

Semiquaver

Sixteenth note

Semihemidemisemiquaver (Quasihemidemisemiquaver)

Hundred twenty-eighth note

Sextuplet

See →tuplet

Slur

Tie and Slur are two words used to define a curved line between two or more notes. Slur means that the notes will be played without attack ( legato ). Tie is used between two or three ( rare ) same notes to indicate its duration:
Quarter note + Tie + Quarter note = Half note,
Quarter note + Tie + Eighth note = Dotted Quarter note
Quarter note + Tie + Eighth note + Tie + 16th note = Double Dotted Quarter note

Staff (Staves)

Group of one to five horizontal lines used to lay on musical signs. The staff appeared in the XIth Century with 4 lines (Gregorian notation).

System

System: Set of staves to be read simultaneously in a score.
Operating System (OS): Set of programs written in the aim to set up a computer from a lot of electronic components. Popular OS are Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and GNU/Linux.

Tie

See →slur .

Triplet (engl.)

See →tuplet

Tuplet

A tuplet divides it's next higher note value by a number of notes other than given by the time signature. For example a triplet divides the next higher note value into three parts, rather than two. Tuplets may be: triplets, duplets, quintuplet, and other.

Voice

Polyphonic instruments like Keyboards, Violin(s) or Drums, need to write notes of different duration at the same time on the same Staff. To write such things each horizontal succession of notes has to be written on the staff independently.