“ Flags show the duration of a note. Two or more notes with flags next to each other are often connected together; these connections are called "beams". Notes are written in "bars" on a "stave" (or "staff") . A stave starts with a "clef" and will usually have five lines. A bar is a section of the stave, representing a period of time, marked by vertical lines called "bar lines".Knowing the pitch and duration of notes is important. The pitch is shown by the vertical position of the note head. Each line and each space is a different pitch. ”
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“ Reading basic musical notation is not that difficult and once you know what the symbols mean it is usually easy to write out the appropriate code in either LilyPond or ABC.Each note is made of one to three parts:The parts of a musical note: note head, stem and flag. The note head is a circular dot, the stem is a vertical line connected to the head at one side and the flag is a short diagonal mark at the opposite end of the stem to the note head. Note head: All notes have a note head, a circular mark like a dot. Notes heads show the pitch of the note. ”
“ When writing in LilyPond, "commands" start with a backslash and "expressions" are containing in curly brackets. All notations must be contained in a single musical expression. A command followed by an expression counts as a single musical expression.For example, elative c and ime 6/8 are commands; elative c { ... } is a musical expression."Relative mode" is the simplest way to write in LilyPond notation. In this mode notes are assumed to be the closest pitch to the previous note. Absolute notes can be entered instead. The command elative c will start in Bass C (C3, small octave) . ”
