Talk:Modern musical symbols

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How extensive is this going to be? I don't see the value in this beyond what's already in the existing notation articles. Seems like it's mainly an image gallery, which is prohibited on WP. Anyway, the lines and spaces on a staff don't show the chromatic scale, but rather the diatonic scale. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Wahoofive (talk • contribs) 04:54, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

Well, this is supposed to consolidate all of that information into one article. And besides, someone reading a piece of sheet music will occasionally encounter a symbol of which he or she does not know its meaning. This article provides a very good "legend" to those symbols, and it should reduce, if not eliminate, the necessity of having to search the 'Net to find them.  Denelson83  03:37, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

OMISSION There is no mention of the dotted note until section on the grace note. This needs to be included with a visual example as well. Thank You

Oh my. In the event that someone encounters something that they do not know I seriously doubt they would find it on this page – at least at the time I am posting this, this page is very partial.

I disagree that this page is useless. I can see that this might become a useful place for some people to turn to in the event that one comes across a symbol but knows nothing about what it's called. (How do you suppose someone would look up a mordent, say, or a tremolo, without knowing what it was called?) I might also add that some of the information could be expanded to include symbols, directions, etc. that are more specific to style -- rinforzando, for example. --Todeswalzer 03:06, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] SVG?

Ideally, the article would use SVG versions of all the notation symbols. Would this be feasable? Ppk01 23:38, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Clefs

I've been trying to improve the Clef page lately. The clef section here is admirably elegant and spare. But I think the Tenor clef could be added, since on the clef page it is listed, along with the treble, bass and alto clefs, as the fourth clef used in modern notation. (Other clefs are labeled "obsolete".) --Gheuf 19:37, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

I agree. Tenor clef should probably be added. 212.143.66.129 11:13, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Quarter tones

Quarter-tone notation is not standardized. All sorts of different symbols are used, and the ones shown are some of the least common. Moreover, to this day quarter-tones are not commonly used at all in Western music; they are still experimental and likely to remain so.TheScotch 09:30, 18 February 2007 (UTC)