Elements Of A Score

Is She Not Passing Fair:

A: This symbol is called a brace, and what this brace does on a score is it ties the different elements of musical instruments together. And you would use this brace for a piano and it would tie the bass and the treble clef together. The brace ties the 2 stave's together, but the difference between the brace and the bracket they both are presented in different shapes, the brace is a thinner shape then the bracket, and the brace is more rounded then the bracket, where the bracket is more square like and a straight line.

B: MF is short for Mezzo - forte which means moderately loud, the crescendo symbol which is next to MF symbolises to get gradually louder. So this would mean the musician has to slowly get louder.

DIM: dim is short for Diminuendo which means to gradually decrease the volume of the music

C: This symbol is a tie, what a tie does is adds the notes together and tells the musician to play these notes in the amount of time the notes are added together. So in this score the time signature is 3/4 so the tie is adding the 2 notes together and making it being played to last for 3 beats or notes.

D: This symbol is a slur, what a slur does is tell the musician to play the notes with a slur on them to be played smoothly or in a more detailed way to explain it, to be played in legato which means the same thing to be played smoothly and to be played into each other smoothly and not separately and create gaps, so the symbol of the slur prevents the musician to play the notes in staccato to the slur would automatically make the musician know they have to play the notes smoothly without staccato.

E: (Sorry Phillip I had to miss this one out i could not understand clearly what it was saying)

F: Colla Parte - This means the conductor has to follow the solo performer's rhythm and tempo and usually this would be for a short passage. It also means to play the same part as another part in a score and to keep the same rhythm and tempo as a another part in a score.

Sir Duke: 

A: this symbol is called a natural so because the key is in b major the note with the natural symbol is meant to be a d sharp but with the natural symbol it makes it a d major (natural D). This means the composer wanted the note to be different so that symbol is what they would have to put to make it is a different note. The natural symbol makes any note turn to the natural note of the specific note. So depending on the note it would either make the note go higher then it was originally or lower to make it a natural note.

B: Fm7 - means a F minor 7 chord (minor 7th chord). It is known that a minor 7th chord means lowering the 3rd and 7th note in the chord, also you can say flatten. In the F minor 7th chord the notes being played is: F, Ab, C, Eb.

C: NC: is short for No Chord, so this means that no chord is being played and there is no implied harmony. The NC would be written in the chord row of music notation.

D: D.C. al Coda: this means when you see this word you have to go back to the beginning of the score and play until you see a circle with a cross on it. D.c is short for da capo which means beginning in Italian and then al coda means end or tail in Italian. So the full saying is Da Capo Al Coda (from head to the tail), (from start to finish).