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  • Table 1: Basic Signs
  • Table 2: Clefs
  • Table 3: Accidentals, Key
    and Time signatures

  • Table 4: Rythmic Groups
  • Table 5: Chords
  • Table 6: Slurs and Ties
  • Table 7: Tremolos
  • Table 8: Fingering
  • Table 9: Bar lines and repeats
  • Table 10: Nuances
  • Table 11: Ornaments
  • Table 12: Theory
  • Table 13: Modern Notation
  • Table 14: General Organization
  • Table 15: Keyboard Music
  • Table 16: Vocal Music
  • Table 17: String Instruments
  • Table 18: Winds & Percussion
  • Table 19: Accordion

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  • TABLE 12: Theory

    A. Chord Symbols

    Prefix for a chord symbol part
    Small circle
    Small circle bisected by line
    Small triangle
    Small triangle bisected by line
    Italicized 7 for a specialized seventh chord
    Use national signs of country for plus, minus and oblique stroke

    B. Figured Bass and Harmonic Analysis

    Prefix for a figured bass part
    Numbers
    Isolated accidentals
    Omitted figure in a string of figures
    A line of continuation
    Two lines of continuation
    Figure (any number) that is crossed in print
    Oblique stroke
    Separation of signs
    Italicized 7 for a specialized seventh chord
    Use national signs of country for upper- and lower-case letters as well as upper- and lower-case roman numerals.

    C. Brackets

    Music parentheses (round brackets)
    Vertical brackets surrounding notes or features
    Square bracket above the staff
    Square bracket above staff with unclear ending
    Dotted square bracket above the staff
    Square bracket below the staff
    Square bracket below staff with unclear ending
    Dotted square bracket below the staff


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