<attacca>An instruction to begin the next section or movement of a composition without
pause.
<bend>A variation in pitch (often micro-tonal) upwards or downwards during the course of
a
note.
<breath>An indication of a point at which the performer on an instrument requiring
breath (including the voice) may breathe.
<caesura>Break, pause, or interruption in the normal tempo of a composition. Typically indicated
by
"railroad tracks", i.e., two diagonal slashes.
<cpMark>A verbal or graphical indication to copy musical material
written elsewhere.
<dir>An instruction expressed as a combination of text and symbols, typically above,
below, or between staves, but not on the staff — that is not encoded elsewhere in
more specific
elements, like <tempo>, <dynam> or <repeatMark>.
<dynam>Indication of the volume of a note, phrase, or section of music.
<fermata>An indication placed over a note or rest to indicate that it should be held longer
than
its written value. May also occur over a bar line to indicate the end of a phrase
or section.
Sometimes called a 'hold' or 'pause'.
<fing>An individual finger in a fingering indication.
<fingGrp>A group of individual fingers in a fingering indication.
<hairpin>Indicates continuous dynamics expressed on the score as wedge-shaped graphics, e.g., <
and >.
<metaMark>A graphical or textual statement with additional / explanatory information about the
musical text. The textual consequences of this intervention are encoded independently
via
other means; that is, with elements such as <add>, <del>, etc.
<mordent>An ornament indicating rapid alternation of the main note with a secondary note, usually
a
step below, but sometimes a step above.
<octave>An indication that a passage should be performed one or more octaves above or below
its
written pitch.
<ornam>An element indicating an ornament that is not a mordent, turn, or trill.
<repeatMark>
An instruction expressed as a combination of text and symbols – segno and coda – typically
above,
below, or between staves, but not on the staff.
<tempo>Text and symbols descriptive of tempo, mood, or style, e.g., "allarg.", "a tempo",
"cantabile", "Moderato", "♩=60", "Moderato ♩ =60").
<trill>Rapid alternation of a note with another (usually at the interval of a second
above).
<turn>An ornament consisting of four notes — the upper neighbor of the written note, the
written
note, the lower neighbor, and the written note.
Common Music Notation (CMN) repertoire component declarations.
<attacca>An instruction to begin the next section or movement of a composition without
pause.
<bend>A variation in pitch (often micro-tonal) upwards or downwards during the course of
a
note.
<breath>An indication of a point at which the performer on an instrument requiring
breath (including the voice) may breathe.
<fermata>An indication placed over a note or rest to indicate that it should be held longer
than
its written value. May also occur over a bar line to indicate the end of a phrase
or section.
Sometimes called a 'hold' or 'pause'.
<hairpin>Indicates continuous dynamics expressed on the score as wedge-shaped graphics, e.g., <
and >.
<repeatMark>
An instruction expressed as a combination of text and symbols – segno and coda – typically
above,
below, or between staves, but not on the staff.
CMN ornament component declarations.
<mordent>An ornament indicating rapid alternation of the main note with a secondary note, usually
a
step below, but sometimes a step above.
<trill>Rapid alternation of a note with another (usually at the interval of a second
above).
<turn>An ornament consisting of four notes — the upper neighbor of the written note, the
written
note, the lower neighbor, and the written note.
Editorial and transcriptional component declarations.
<cpMark>A verbal or graphical indication to copy musical material
written elsewhere.
<metaMark>A graphical or textual statement with additional / explanatory information about the
musical text. The textual consequences of this intervention are encoded independently
via
other means; that is, with elements such as <add>, <del>, etc.
Fingering component declarations.
<fing>An individual finger in a fingering indication.
<fingGrp>A group of individual fingers in a fingering indication.
Component declarations that are shared between two or more modules.
<caesura>Break, pause, or interruption in the normal tempo of a composition. Typically indicated
by
"railroad tracks", i.e., two diagonal slashes.
<dir>An instruction expressed as a combination of text and symbols, typically above,
below, or between staves, but not on the staff — that is not encoded elsewhere in
more specific
elements, like <tempo>, <dynam> or <repeatMark>.
<dynam>Indication of the volume of a note, phrase, or section of music.
<ornam>An element indicating an ornament that is not a mordent, turn, or trill.
<tempo>Text and symbols descriptive of tempo, mood, or style, e.g., "allarg.", "a tempo",
"cantabile", "Moderato", "♩=60", "Moderato ♩ =60").