List of musical symbols

Musical symbols are the marks and symbols, used since about the 13th century in the musical notation of musical scores, styles, and instruments, in order to describe pitch, rhythm, tempo – and, to some degree, its articulation (e.g., a composition in its fundamentals).

Lines

Staff The staff is the fundamental latticework of music notation, upon which symbols are placed. The five staff lines and four intervening spaces correspond to pitches of the diatonic scale – which pitch is meant by a given line or space is defined by the clef.

Musical notation

This article is about the musical term. For other uses, see Note (disambiguation).

In music, the term note has two primary meanings:

1. A sign used in musical notation to represent the relative duration and pitch of a sound (♪, ♫);
2. A pitched sound itself.

Notes are the "atoms" of much We

Brief History of the Guitar

The guitar is an ancient and noble instrument, whose history can be traced back over 4000 years. Many theories have been advanced about the instrument's ancestry. It has often been claimed that the guitar is a development of the lute,