File:Music notation.svg

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English: Some example music notation. The five horizontal lines running the length of the picture make up the staff. From left to right, the symbols on the staff are:

the treble clef
a time signature (4/4)
a C whole note (semibreve)
a bar line
a B half note (minim)
a C half note on a ledger line
another bar line
a time signature change (to 2/4)
an F quarter note (crotchet)
an A eighth note (quaver)
an F-sharp sixteenth note (semiquaver) beamed to an
E-flat sixteenth note
a double bar line

Español: Algunos ejemplos musicales. Las cincos líneas horizontales situadas a lo largo de la imagen forman el pentagrama. De izquierda a derecha, los símbolos del pentagrama son:

la clave de sol
la indicación de compás (4/4)
un do redonda
una barra de compás
un si blanca
un do blanca en una línea adicional
otra barra de compás
un cambio de indicación de compás (a 2/4)
un fa negra
un la corchea
un fa sostenido semicorchea unido a un
mi bemol semicorchea
una doble barra de compás, que indica fin de la partitura ,cambio de compás o de clave

Date

31 August 2007

Source

Based upon Music notation.png by Dysprosia and bdesham. This version created by bdesham with LilyPond.

Author

Benjamin D. Esham (bdesham)

Permission
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LilyPond

The musical notation in this image was rendered by LilyPond, a free-software engraving program. Here is a listing of the LilyPond source used to create this file.

\version "2.24.0"

#(set-global-staff-size 30)

tune = \relative c'' {
    \clef treble
    \key c \major
    
    \override Staff.TimeSignature.style = #'numbered
    \time 4/4

    c1
    b2 c,

    \time 2/4
    f'4 a,8 fis16[ ees]

    \bar "|."
}

\score {
    \new Staff \tune
    \layout { ragged-right = ##t }
}

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	23:52, 10 April 2023	466 × 69 (9 KB)	Pnorcks	Rerender with LilyPond 2.24.1
	04:24, 9 February 2010	464 × 71 (9 KB)	Pnorcks	Rerender with GNU LilyPond's latest native SVG output.
	14:45, 1 September 2007	512 × 78 (36 KB)	Bdesham	larger nominal size for visibility on the image page
	14:54, 31 August 2007	90 × 15 (35 KB)	Bdesham	{{User:Bdesham/Information \| Description = Some example music notation. The five horizontal lines running the length of the picture make up the ''staff''. From left to right, the symbols on the staff are: # the treble clef # a time signature (4/4) # a C