How do you play dashed lines on a piano score?!
Question: How do you play dashed lines on a piano score!?
Hi, I am trying to play a piano piece, Star-Spangled Banner, however I don't understand what the dashed lines mean on the ending of the third line!. Could anyone explain with detail how it's played and what the name of it is!? Thanks!.
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Answers:
The dashes you are referring to point out which notes are the melody notes (in case you don't know how the tune goes when you are playing that section)!. Essentially, all you have to do is bring out those melody notes (and harmony notes in the left hand part) when playing the arrangement!.
The closest thing for a name I can think of would be in some of Schoenberg's music, where he would write "Hauptstimme" to designate the melody line and "Nebenstimme" to refer to the secondary (but still prominent) harmony line!. This arrangement uses the same sort of idea, except without the German vocabulary words printed on the sheet music!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
The closest thing for a name I can think of would be in some of Schoenberg's music, where he would write "Hauptstimme" to designate the melody line and "Nebenstimme" to refer to the secondary (but still prominent) harmony line!. This arrangement uses the same sort of idea, except without the German vocabulary words printed on the sheet music!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
8vb________| below the bass cleff means play it down one octave!. (What's up with measure 29, Bb an octave below the keyboard!?)
Measures 17 - 25 have dashed lines -- for God knows what reason -- to indicate the melody notes!. Example: the pick up to measure 17 and 17 had D D Eb F as the melody, with Bbs between; the Bbs would not be prominently played!.
!.!.!. rightly it should have been scored in two voices for the staff!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
Measures 17 - 25 have dashed lines -- for God knows what reason -- to indicate the melody notes!. Example: the pick up to measure 17 and 17 had D D Eb F as the melody, with Bbs between; the Bbs would not be prominently played!.
!.!.!. rightly it should have been scored in two voices for the staff!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
The dashed lines aren't rests!.
I've never seen anything like that before!. I think it's just to show what the melody is, to distinguish it from all of the other right hand notes, like all of those repeated F's!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
I've never seen anything like that before!. I think it's just to show what the melody is, to distinguish it from all of the other right hand notes, like all of those repeated F's!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
I'm going to go on a limb and take it you don't understand written music all that much and say that they're rests!. If it's a dashed line it could very well just be a way that the composer separated measures!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
if you are referring to the dash above the third to the last note, it's called a tenuto!. Tenuto: Hold it down a bit longer with slight rubato!.Www@Enter-QA@Com