N - Audio musical vocabulary

Natural
the cancelling efect of any accidental(# o b).

Notes
Notes duration are normaly represented with a common set of symbols: Whole Note, Half Note, Quarter Note, Eighth Note, 16th Note,...

Relative Durations of the notes: The Whole note is taken as unit.

In descending order Half Notes and Notes of lower value have Stem that is put at the right note if the stem is up and it is put at the left note when stem is down. Usully stems are written up when the note is in a inferior line at tle central line of the staff and stem are down the note is above te central line. The flags are used for the eigths notes or notes of inferior value, the flags are written at the right of the stem ,in its extrem and with the inclination on the contrary. The beam is used as substitution of flags when there is at least two equal notes.
Note
Grafic sign that represents the pitch of a given sound, the notes are written on the lines and the spaces. The notes that are written in the lines smash the lines and , the notes that are written on the spaces fill them.

Cristina Fuertes
cfuertes@pie.xtec.es