MUSICAL NOTATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does musical notation mean? 

• MUSICAL NOTATION (noun)
  The noun MUSICAL NOTATION has 1 sense:

1. (music) notation used by musicians

  Familiarity information: MUSICAL NOTATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MUSICAL NOTATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(music) notation used by musicians

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("musical notation" is a kind of...):

notation; notational system (a technical system of symbols used to represent special things)

Meronyms (parts of "musical notation"):

ledger line; leger line (a short line; a notation for extending the range above or below the staff)

space (one of the areas between or below or above the lines of a musical staff)

staff line (any of the 5 horizontal marks comprising a staff)

Domain category:

music (an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "musical notation"):

bar; measure (musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats)

sforzando ((music) a notation written above a note and indicating that it is to be played with a strong initial attack)

segno ((music) a notation written at the beginning or end of a passage that is to be repeated)

solmisation; solmization (a system of naming the notes of a musical scale by syllables instead of letters)

fermata (a musical notation (over a note or chord or rest) that indicates it is to be prolonged by an unspecified amount)

accidental (a musical notation that makes a note sharp or flat or natural although that is not part of the key signature)

cancel; natural (a notation cancelling a previous sharp or flat)

flat (a musical notation indicating one half step lower than the note named)

sharp (a musical notation indicating one half step higher than the note named)

slur ((music) a curved line spanning notes that are to be played legato)

musical note; note; tone (a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound)

rest (a musical notation indicating a silence of a specified duration)

bar line (a vertical line before the accented beat marking the boundary between musical bars)

musical time signature; time signature (a musical notation indicating the number of beats to a measure and kind of note that takes a beat)

atonalism; atonality (the absence of a key; alternative to the diatonic system)

key; tonality (any of 24 major or minor diatonic scales that provide the tonal framework for a piece of music)

key signature; signature (the sharps or flats that follow the clef and indicate the key)

clef (a musical notation written on a staff indicating the pitch of the notes following it)

staff; stave ((music) the system of five horizontal lines on which the musical notes are written)

interval; musical interval (the difference in pitch between two notes)

musical scale; scale ((music) a series of notes differing in pitch according to a specific scheme (usually within an octave))

tablature (a musical notation indicating the fingering to be used)

Holonyms ("musical notation" is a part of...):

musical score; score (a written form of a musical composition; parts for different instruments appear on separate staves on large pages)