1. Ties
To indicate that a sequence of notes (all
of the same pitch) are tied, append a left
square bracket "[" to the first note of the
sequence, and a right square bracket "]" to
the last note.
Example
**n[A-B-C]
*t[100]
8f 4b- 4dd[ | 8dd] 4cc 8b- 8a 8a
4cc[ |
8cc] 4b- 8a 4.g 16a 16b- | 8cc
8b- 8a 8g 4f 16b- 16a 16b- 16cc
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4.b-
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2. Slurs
To slur a sequence of notes or join them
together as a phrase, append a left
parenthesis "(" to the first note of the
sequence, and a right parenthesis ")" to the
last note.
3. Staccato
To indicate that a particular note should be
played staccato, append an apostrophe (') to
the note.
4. Tuplets
As explained earlier in
The Basics, durations are
represented using a reciprocal number
notation. With the exception of the value
zero, durations are represented by
reciprocal numerical values corresponding to
the American duration names: "1" for whole
note, "8" for eighth, "32" for
thirty-second, etc. The number zero (0) is
reserved for the breve duration (a duration
of twice the length of a whole note).
Triplet and other irregular durations are
represented using the same reciprocal logic.
Consider, for example, the quarter-note
triplet duration. Three quarter triplets
occur in the time of four quarters or one
whole duration. If we divide a whole
duration ("1") into three equal parts, each
part has a duration of one-third. The
corresponding reciprocal integer for 1/3 is
3, hence we represent a quarter-note triplet
as a "third-note", 3. Similarly, eighth-note
triplets are represented by the integer 6
and sixteenth-note triplets are represented
by the integer 12.
In general, the way to determine the
equivalent of an arbitrary "tuplet" duration
is to multiply the number of tuplets by the
total duration which they occupy. If 5 notes
of equal duration occupy the duration of a
quarter-note ("4"), then each septuplet is
represented by the value 20 (i.e. 4 x 5).
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