What do these brackets mean?
What do the brackets in the image shown below mean?:
piano
edited Mar 4 at 8:40
Xilpex
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What do the brackets in the image shown below mean?:
piano
edited Mar 4 at 8:40
Xilpex
371214
asked Mar 3 at 10:51
klippyklippy
1665
2
The given answers are surely correct. But could we also ask what sense it makes a) to notate it b) to put the paranthesis as the left hand has nothing else to fo?
– Albrecht Hügli
Mar 3 at 16:07
1
It makes sense to notate it, when two independent voices converge temporarily on the same pitch. The notation indicates that the same note "belongs" equally to both voices even if it is only played by one hand. For example, I have seen the same notation in an edition of Bach two-part inventions (invention #8 in particular)
– wrschneider
Mar 4 at 2:57
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What do the brackets in the image shown below mean?:
piano
edited Mar 4 at 8:40
Xilpex
371214
asked Mar 3 at 10:51
klippyklippy
1665
What do the brackets in the image shown below mean?:
piano
piano
edited Mar 4 at 8:40
Xilpex
371214
asked Mar 3 at 10:51
klippyklippy
1665
edited Mar 4 at 8:40
Xilpex
371214
asked Mar 3 at 10:51
klippyklippy
1665
edited Mar 4 at 8:40
Xilpex
371214
edited Mar 4 at 8:40
Xilpex
371214
edited Mar 4 at 8:40
Xilpex
371214
371214
asked Mar 3 at 10:51
klippyklippy
1665
asked Mar 3 at 10:51
klippyklippy
1665
asked Mar 3 at 10:51
klippyklippy
1665
1665
2
The given answers are surely correct. But could we also ask what sense it makes a) to notate it b) to put the paranthesis as the left hand has nothing else to fo?
– Albrecht Hügli
Mar 3 at 16:07
1
It makes sense to notate it, when two independent voices converge temporarily on the same pitch. The notation indicates that the same note "belongs" equally to both voices even if it is only played by one hand. For example, I have seen the same notation in an edition of Bach two-part inventions (invention #8 in particular)
– wrschneider
Mar 4 at 2:57
add a comment |
2
The given answers are surely correct. But could we also ask what sense it makes a) to notate it b) to put the paranthesis as the left hand has nothing else to fo?
– Albrecht Hügli
Mar 3 at 16:07
1
It makes sense to notate it, when two independent voices converge temporarily on the same pitch. The notation indicates that the same note "belongs" equally to both voices even if it is only played by one hand. For example, I have seen the same notation in an edition of Bach two-part inventions (invention #8 in particular)
– wrschneider
Mar 4 at 2:57
2
2
The given answers are surely correct. But could we also ask what sense it makes a) to notate it b) to put the paranthesis as the left hand has nothing else to fo?
– Albrecht Hügli
Mar 3 at 16:07
The given answers are surely correct. But could we also ask what sense it makes a) to notate it b) to put the paranthesis as the left hand has nothing else to fo?
– Albrecht Hügli
Mar 3 at 16:07
1
1
It makes sense to notate it, when two independent voices converge temporarily on the same pitch. The notation indicates that the same note "belongs" equally to both voices even if it is only played by one hand. For example, I have seen the same notation in an edition of Bach two-part inventions (invention #8 in particular)
– wrschneider
Mar 4 at 2:57
It makes sense to notate it, when two independent voices converge temporarily on the same pitch. The notation indicates that the same note "belongs" equally to both voices even if it is only played by one hand. For example, I have seen the same notation in an edition of Bach two-part inventions (invention #8 in particular)
– wrschneider
Mar 4 at 2:57
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My guess (I cannot really see the notes for the upper voice): The same note is already played by your right hand. Both voices share the same note but it obviously only needs to be played once. That's why it is written in brackets for the left hand.
answered Mar 3 at 11:11
dodidodi
13613
Yeah it is the same note now that I look at it. Thanks
– klippy
Mar 3 at 12:13
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Your image is clipped, but I'm guessing the top note is two ledger lines below the staff?
That would make the right hand note A. The A in parenthesis is telling you it's the same note as the left hand top staff line. So it's an optional way to play it, using the left hand instead of the right.
answered Mar 3 at 11:13
Tom SerbTom Serb
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My guess (I cannot really see the notes for the upper voice): The same note is already played by your right hand. Both voices share the same note but it obviously only needs to be played once. That's why it is written in brackets for the left hand.
answered Mar 3 at 11:11
dodidodi
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Yeah it is the same note now that I look at it. Thanks
– klippy
Mar 3 at 12:13
add a comment |
My guess (I cannot really see the notes for the upper voice): The same note is already played by your right hand. Both voices share the same note but it obviously only needs to be played once. That's why it is written in brackets for the left hand.
answered Mar 3 at 11:11
dodidodi
13613
Yeah it is the same note now that I look at it. Thanks
– klippy
Mar 3 at 12:13
add a comment |
My guess (I cannot really see the notes for the upper voice): The same note is already played by your right hand. Both voices share the same note but it obviously only needs to be played once. That's why it is written in brackets for the left hand.
answered Mar 3 at 11:11
dodidodi
13613
My guess (I cannot really see the notes for the upper voice): The same note is already played by your right hand. Both voices share the same note but it obviously only needs to be played once. That's why it is written in brackets for the left hand.
answered Mar 3 at 11:11
dodidodi
13613
answered Mar 3 at 11:11
dodidodi
13613
answered Mar 3 at 11:11
dodidodi
13613
answered Mar 3 at 11:11
dodidodi
13613
13613
Yeah it is the same note now that I look at it. Thanks
– klippy
Mar 3 at 12:13
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Yeah it is the same note now that I look at it. Thanks
– klippy
Mar 3 at 12:13
Yeah it is the same note now that I look at it. Thanks
– klippy
Mar 3 at 12:13
Yeah it is the same note now that I look at it. Thanks
– klippy
Mar 3 at 12:13
add a comment |
Your image is clipped, but I'm guessing the top note is two ledger lines below the staff?
That would make the right hand note A. The A in parenthesis is telling you it's the same note as the left hand top staff line. So it's an optional way to play it, using the left hand instead of the right.
answered Mar 3 at 11:13
Tom SerbTom Serb
1,0179
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Your image is clipped, but I'm guessing the top note is two ledger lines below the staff?
That would make the right hand note A. The A in parenthesis is telling you it's the same note as the left hand top staff line. So it's an optional way to play it, using the left hand instead of the right.
answered Mar 3 at 11:13
Tom SerbTom Serb
1,0179
add a comment |
Your image is clipped, but I'm guessing the top note is two ledger lines below the staff?
That would make the right hand note A. The A in parenthesis is telling you it's the same note as the left hand top staff line. So it's an optional way to play it, using the left hand instead of the right.
answered Mar 3 at 11:13
Tom SerbTom Serb
1,0179
Your image is clipped, but I'm guessing the top note is two ledger lines below the staff?
That would make the right hand note A. The A in parenthesis is telling you it's the same note as the left hand top staff line. So it's an optional way to play it, using the left hand instead of the right.
answered Mar 3 at 11:13
Tom SerbTom Serb
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The given answers are surely correct. But could we also ask what sense it makes a) to notate it b) to put the paranthesis as the left hand has nothing else to fo?
– Albrecht Hügli
Mar 3 at 16:07
1
It makes sense to notate it, when two independent voices converge temporarily on the same pitch. The notation indicates that the same note "belongs" equally to both voices even if it is only played by one hand. For example, I have seen the same notation in an edition of Bach two-part inventions (invention #8 in particular)
– wrschneider
Mar 4 at 2:57