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    Sheet music uses musical notation to write down melodies, rhythms, and instructions for performing songs. Notation indicates pitches, rhythms, tempo, and other performance details through standardized symbols. Reading notation requires understanding these symbols as well as the performance practices of different eras and genres. Common types of musical notation include scores for ensembles, individual parts for performers, lead sheets for popular music with melody and chords, and tablature which uses diagrams to notate notes on fretted instruments.

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    Sheet music uses musical notation to write down melodies, rhythms, and instructions for performing songs. Notation indicates pitches, rhythms, tempo, and other performance details through standardized symbols. Reading notation requires understanding these symbols as well as the performance practices of different eras and genres. Common types of musical notation include scores for ensembles, individual parts for performers, lead sheets for popular music with melody and chords, and tablature which uses diagrams to notate notes on fretted instruments.

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    Guidelines to a virtuoso

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    Sheet music uses musical notation to write down melodies, rhythms, and instructions for performing songs. Notation indicates pitches, rhythms, tempo, and other performance details through standardized symbols. Reading notation requires understanding these symbols as well as the performance practices of different eras and genres. Common types of musical notation include scores for ensembles, individual parts for performers, lead sheets for popular music with melody and chords, and tablature which uses diagrams to notate notes on fretted instruments.

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    Music IV

    Notation
    Sheet music is written representation of music. This is a homorhythmic (i.e.,
    hymn-style) arrangement of a traditional piece entitled "Adeste Fideles", in
    standard two-staff format for mixed voices. About this sound Play (helpinfo)
    Notation is the written expression of music notes and rhythms on paper
    using symbols. When music is written down, the pitches and rhythm of the
    music is notated, along with instructions on how to perform the music (e.g.,
    regarding the tempo). The study of how to read notation involves music
    theory, harmony, the study of performance practice, and in some cases an
    understanding of historical performance methods. Written notation varies
    with style and period of music. Notated music is produced as sheet music. To
    perform music from notation requires an understanding of both the rhythmic
    and pitch elements embodied in the symbols and the performance practice
    that is associated with a piece of music or a genre. In improvisation, the
    performer often plays from music where only the chord changes and form of
    the song are written, requiring a great understanding of the music's
    structure, harmony and the styles of a particular genre (e.g., jazz or country
    music).
    In Western Art music, the most common types of written notation are scores,
    which include all the music parts of an ensemble piece, and parts, which are
    the music notation for the individual performers or singers. In popular music,
    jazz, and blues, the standard musical notation is the lead sheet, which
    notates the melody, chords, lyrics (if it is a vocal piece), and structure of the
    music. Fake books are also used in jazz; they may consist of lead sheets or
    simply chord charts, which permit rhythm section members to improvise an
    accompaniment part to jazz songs. Scores and parts are also used in popular
    music and jazz, particularly in large ensembles such as jazz "big bands." In
    popular music, guitarists and electric bass players often read music notated
    in tablature (often abbreviated as "tab"), which indicates the location of the
    notes to be played on the instrument using a diagram of the guitar or bass
    fingerboard. Tabulature was also used in the Baroque era to notate music for
    the lute, a stringed, fretted instrument.

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