dotted note

Thus compound time uses a dotted note for the beat unit.

A dot indicating staccato articulation is not to be confused with a dotted note.

In Western musical notation, a dotted note is a note with a small dot written after it.

The double-dotted note is used less frequently than the dotted note.

The piano opens with the melody, a very legato one with many dotted notes.

The text is set as a short tenor accompagnato, again based on a pattern of dotted notes in the instruments.

A "dotted note" in music is generally one that is about three times as long as the following short note.

So are dotted notes.

The screen progressively guides one through 40 lessons, teaching subjects like "dotted notes" and "waltz rhythms" with simple songs.

If the basic note lasts 2 beats, the corresponding dotted note lasts 3 beats.

When Billy whistles a snatch of the song, he selects Julie's dotted notes rather than Carrie's.

This reverses the pattern normally associated with dotted notes or notes inégales, in which the longer value precedes the shorter.

A so-called Scotch snap is a short note before a dotted note, which in traditional playing is generally exaggerated rhythmically for musical expression.

Dotted notes were never used in this way in the mensural period; the main beat unit was always a simple (undotted) note value.

There followed some fascinatingly baffling dialogue about dotted notes and retards, diminuendoes and crescendos.

Whether many beginning players are willing to wade through the lesson on dotted notes just to play the first four bars of "Hot Cross Buns" is doubtful.

The dotted notes emphasise the second beat of the bar, giving this song-like theme something of the character of a Sarabande.

If the affect of a passage was dotted, the compelling rhythm of the dotted notes, or notes inégales, would sometimes simply override all the rules.

N.B.: in modern compound meters the beat is a dotted note value, such as a dotted quarter, because the ratios of the modern note value hierarchy are always 2:1.

A dotted note is equivalent to writing the basic note tied to a note of half the value, or with more than one dots, tied to notes of progressively halved value.

In compound meter, subdivisions of the main beat (the upper number) are split into three, not two, equal parts, so that a dotted note (half again longer than a regular note) becomes the beat unit.

However, if a dotted note on a line is part of a chord where a higher note is also on a line, the dot for the lower note is placed in the space below:

An engraved score, it is more modern in its notation but it employs the archaic shortcut for dotted notes across barlines in which instead of a tie to a quarter note only a dot appears.

The typical dotted note themes in pathétique pieces such as Beethoven's "Pathétique" Sonata, Liszt's Concerto pathétique, or Scriabin's "Patetico" Etude Op.

In a French overture (and sometimes other Baroque music), notes written as dotted notes are often interpreted to mean double-dotted notes, and the following note is commensurately shortened; see Historically informed performance.