#noteheads

[weirdly-specific-but-ok]

There's a wandering note, slinking through the air Pausing at every ear, to whisper its little despair Who are you? Love, it says I've believed it far too long

I tell it to hush, gently, so it doesn't flee It's been a victim just as much as me Who are you? Love, I say Would never sing that song

The note pauses then, settles, leans Heavier on my shoulder than it's ever been Who are you? Love, it says Sounding less sure every time

I understand, I lay my cheek on its notehead We watch the others, the clamour overfed Who are you? Love, I say Would never sound that chime

And so we wait, together, that note and I Until a silence lays over the cries Who are you? Love, I ask But there is no reply

I look to my side, the note has faded away The lightness at my shoulder, the quiet of the day Who are you? Love, I see And at last I close my eyes. Asmi

It's past 2 in the morning and I've had a tiring day emotionally, and I was staring at all the sad good omens headcanons, and I decided to write a love poem. Well, kind of. A comforting one, I hope. Because I want to remember that love isn't the tears, it's the handkerchief slipped into your hand, it's not the cause of the heartache, but the easing of the pain.

So, to end Valentine's day, as it were... Here's a reminder that love can be painful but in the end, a healthy relationship of any kind is when it's you against the world, not each other. When the comfort is more than the ache.

Have a lovely day or night, my maggots. We love Aziraphale and Crowley's story because they are each other's comfort and safe space. Because even when there is pain, their kindness exceeds it. I hope the people in your life are like that, too. You deserve it. Please know that you deserve respect. You deserve kindness.

I love you.

[drinkybirdz]

i want a new notebook (cuz im a notehead) but i dont want to buy a new notebookkkkkkkkk

[tye-wig-music]

fun fact about western musical notation, pretty much every note value in use today up to the breve/double whole note was at one historical stage or another the shortest in written use.

the breve, or double whole note (literally ‘brief [note]), was originally contrasted—in the 13th century—with the longa, a note twice its length. the semibreve (whole note; literally, half-brief) was a scribal innovation, invented to fill a notational need for shorter notes. this basically kept happening iteratively: the minim (half-note, orig. ‘minima’) was for a time the minimum possible note length*, until the introduction of the semiminim ♩ (quarter note—known in British nomenclature as the crotchet, from the french crochet, ‘small hook’. astute readers will have observed that the name should more accurately refer to the eighth-note (♪) or quaver, which actually possesses a small hook on its stem; as far as I’m aware this discrepancy must have arisen at some stage in the 16th or 17th century, when various systems of nomenclature and notation were in competition †. the term “semiminim” probably persisted longer in choral contexts).

the eighth-note is the direct descendent of the fusa, a halved semiminim; the term quaver, still in use in the british system, is attested from the 16th century, & derives from the sense of these (at the time) extremely fast notes resembling a shaking or quavering of the voice when sung. it’s the shortest note value which has a name of its own in the british system, all shorter notes being formed from the root -quaver with semi-, demi-, hemi- affixed in various permutations.

it’s worth pointing out that very little of this historical contextualising information is actually communicated in routine musical pedagogy in the UK. you have to go to university & study medieval music for that, which, hello; or, you can get almost exactly the same information from wikipedia.org/wiki/mensural_notation. also worth noting that the US system of note names is straightforwardly derived from the modern german system, but I’m hazy on when exactly the “ganze Note/halbe Note” terminology was adopted in germany (post-Bach? post-Mozart??), or when it crossed the atlantic.

^this figure covers about every note value discussed here

*“possible” according to the highly prescriptive treatises of the ~14th/early 15th centuries, few of which are in total agreement with each other, but many of which got hung up on the idea that the minima’s name should be taken very literally

† to be more specific, the term crochet (fr.) or crotchet (eng.) was originally synonymous with the hooked fusa in the earlier full/black note notation; after the development of void/white note notation (15th C), duration could be differentiated by a notehead’s being filled or empty, as in the modern half note & quarter note, which are otherwise identical in form. the hooked note thus became half of the halved minim, which could now itself be represented by a filled note & needed no hook; in french, the name “crochet” was retained by the figure (i.e. ♪), whilst in english, the value (i.e. one half minim) retained it

[balkanlila]

mom got me a 🎵 shaped brooch, except it has hearts functioning as the notehead 🥺

[oodlenoodleroodle]

Description: the still image is musical notation where the notes are laid on the staves in such as way as to create an image of a cat with a crown over its head (the noteheads are mostly normal but the stems and flags are stretched to form the image). The title of the song is Toc-cat-a in B (for pawiano)

The video is someone playing the music on a piano.

To-cat-ata in B by sympawnies

[bouquetted]

Each of the 52 cards, dated from 1725, have engraved a unique love song, some of which are for a singing voice, some for playing the flute.

Paul Hirsch (1881- 1951) assembled one of the largest private music libraries in all of Europe, and these playing cards are just one of the many pieces of his collection.

They are currently on display in the Treasures Exhibition, free to enter, at the British Library.

These are so beautiful! If I were to remake them, or create a set of playing cards inside by them, I'd use red ink and have the notehead in the shape of a heart. ❤️ 🎶

[maximuswolf]

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[automaticfrenchhorn]

As a horn player, I've had this idea in the back of my mind for a long time. You can play the instrument without the valves, making it function like the natural horns of centuries past, but you can also use the valves to change the fundamental key of the instrument at will. In reality, this is what modern brass playing is, but here I have leaned into the natural horn sound by requiring each note be played in the manner of a natural horn, instead of using the standard or most practical fingering.

I've also deliberately prohibited the standard use of the hand for tuning adjustments - typical natural horn playing requires the hornist to retune many notes to fit standard tuning systems - but here I am asking for the notes of the pure harmonic series, creating a microtonal piece featuring the 7th, 11th, 13th harmonics prominently. If you're interested about the notation, I used Helmholtz-Ellis notation, since I find it practical for 13-limit writing, although I did not bother with adjusting the notation for the thirds.

The tuning in the playback isn't perfect, in reality this is 72 EDO, since Dorico can't do true Just Intonation. 72 EDO has a good approximation for the 7th and 11th harmonics, and an alright approx. of the 13th. All the other intervals are close enough in standard 12 EDO that I didn't adjust them.

One other comment, those E-kinda-sharp notes in measure 12 should actually be written F's, using the funny backwards flat seen in measures 38-39. It's the right pitch, but for whatever reason Dorico refused to let me display this note with the notehead on F, I have no idea why.

As always, these pieces are welcome for anyone and everyone to play! All I ask is that you share it with me, because I'd love to hear it done by live players!

[thestarpilot]

had to write a bunch of poems for class so i'm posting them here to make you all suffer "Noise of Shapes" Wood grain and mill marks,

or other shapes to glance and gaze,

even in noise, are meanings to be made

"Cry 'Hunger!'" Anxious dogs will celebrate you,

for waking or walking, but most of all,

for duty, for duly known: food is soon

"Used Lots" Hands of seconds, on time to reflect,

rejoin your other's selves with whom

shared tastes, now or then, tend collect

"Peanuts" There's a three-quarters washy, pink-grounded Snoopy cut-out, pinned up on my wall,

in first three, he and pinks are discrete, as before him Schroeder's unplayed piano calls,

in four, he performs, his pink world's repletion, ascending quaver marked by notehead paws.

"Notes on Portuguese" My notes began on old sugarcane, a spiral bound book of sweet recycled pulp,

some marked point, ebbed my novice jottings on present tense, as practice took their place,

reasons beginner's may possess, yet nothing beats the familiar sense; of voice, case, and face.

"Dead Language" If you love the world's words, the cold and blue and lifeless ones especially, many, or maybe most, will gut you like a fool,

most give whys, never taking much heed or 'huh', but forgotten words remain so much in life, these bygones' own and ours,

here to stay, more yours now than ever their inceptors'; latent prizes, heirloom rubbish of tongue and bone and stolen tool

"Portraits" Our likeness comes out in many varied forums, in words and deeds and any and many other things: the portrait form of people and the portrayals many and any other things, especially,

an expectation is stuck in our eye in our photographic age, laden with endless industrial image and ubiquity of self-publicity, about how things ought to appear, how we as ourselves, especially,

despite the private sense of ancient 'camera', the mechanical image, like cultivated authenticity for profilicity's sake, in all its truth and falseness, pervades, but the liminal remains in us, our likenesses, especially.

"Fishing Out of Water" A submarine has a lot of trouble out of water, and in its domain, cars and trucks and cats fair no better, as all things have places to be,

as you no doubt do too, but may not know, or you may be yet to learn, or you do, but most fish don't know their fitting place is the sea,

finding that fitting place for you is no easy thing, as first you need to know if you are a car or a cat, a fish or submarine; or yet some other thing.

"Cynics" Cynics get a bad rap, probably for playing out open hands and refusing to bluff, often rather avoiding to bite, bearing our teeth,

most often of all by modernists, the optimisers and pessimisers, the Paradisians and Ragnarokians, each defending their attendant belief,

but cynics aren't phased, as ancient underdogs born with our bone in the doghouse, since weaned we're weened to be barking up the wrong tree.

"Of expectation" There's tremendous beauty in life's everyday mundanity, great gifts of the ordinary experience, as those most discerning often tend to know,

gold veins amidst trash-heaps, saplings and great old trees where near fledgling people play, in gutter virtue, and furrow-working virtuousos,

these places least anticipated are often where humanity flourishes best, despite what all those narrow expectations within us might suppose.

[danihost-blog]

Drumset Notation Sibelius

Drumset notation sibelius is a comprehensive system that accurately represents the rhythmic elements of a composition. It includes a special staff layout, drum notes with specific noteheads and symbols, and a variety of articulations, dynamics, and markings that convey valuable performance instructions to the drummer. With the right knowledge and skills, composers and arrangers can produce drum…

[loverboybrightsideghost]

i just spent two hours transcribing the first thirty seconds of this song. the real doozy is about to come in the rest of it because I Have No Idea How To Notate Percussion? i'm p sure it would just be a bunch of x noteheads and rhythms but idk how A Drumset percussion would be notated so i guess i'll find out! can't be that hard, right?

experiment

doing rhythm games to see if it makes me better at. anything

my sense of rhythm is kinda ass so. idk if this will do anything for that but. let's see!

day one

[violins-beat-violas]

My boyfriend did the cutest thing to me while we were waiting between dinner and rehearsal. I swear, this man is going to kill me with cute. <3

[vbv-doodles]

My friends and I have this wall we hang out around between classes. I'm gonna miss it this summer. ❤️

[rizzity]

^ what having 2hp does to a mf

[oneefin]

alright, solution for this let's go.

rot13'd hints:

1) gur nyohz neg vf gur xrl gb oernxvat va. jung'f vg sebz?

2) unir lbh svtherq bhg jung gur K ba gur vzntr vf ersreevat gb? vg'f nffbpvngrq jvgu n fbat.

2.5) ubcrshyyl lbh sbhaq gung gur vzntr vf n jbeyq znc sebz cbxrzba zlfgrel qhatrba tngrf gb vasvavgl, naq gung gur K snyyf ba gur qhatrba "jvgurerq fninaanu".

3) abgvpr nal fvzvynevgvrf orgjrra gur fbat naq gur nhqvb va gur chmmyr? va cnegvphyne, jung'f zvffvat sebz gur chmmyr nhqvb?

3.5) gur abgrf va gur chmmyr nhqvb zngpu gur eulguz bs gur zrybql va gur bevtvany fbat, ohg gurer'f frira abgrf zvffvat. lbh'yy arrq gb svaq gur cvgpurf bs gurfr abgrf, hfvat gur bevtvany fbat.

4) bapr lbh unir gur frira abgrf, lbh znl jnag gb gel cynlvat gurz, be tbbtyr sbe jung gurl ner.

okay, here's the solution:

you'll probably try a few things to start with (eg treating the rhythm as morse code?) but you won't get anything from it.

eventually, you'll have a closer look at the album art. what's this from?

reverse image searching brings up the map from the video game Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity. There's a black X on a certain spot, and this helpful annotated map on the mystery dungeon reddit would help you identify it as Withered Savannah, which is a synonym of the puzzle title.

looking into withered savannah specifically, you should quickly find the song on the soundtrack with the same name. this is the dungeon bgm for this area of the game. listening to the start of the song, the rhythm of the melody is identical to that of the audio clip in the puzzle.

well, almost identical. some of the notes are missing from the audio file. if you count them, there's exactly 7, which is the same number as in the diagram. the ?s on the noteheads suggest that we're looking for the pitches of these notes.

using the original song, we can find the pitches of the notes whose rhythm corresponds to the missing rhythms in the puzzle audio. here's a diagram that shows the melody of the original song with those notes removed, and redrawn in red:

the pitches of these notes, in order, is D E F G E C D. musicians may recognize this immediately, but if you don't, googling this sequence of notes brings up hits for THE LICK, which is the answer to this puzzle.

author's notes:

this hits really close to home! i participated in the mystery dungeon community and wrote arrangements of music from pmd gates for a decent chunk of my musical career. click the reddit link mentioned in this solution and check who posted it :)

withered savannah is a really really good song too. in particular there's an incredible piano arrangement of it by threelines3 which i and many others have etched into our memory:

as a final note, here's a version of the piano cover with the pitches and the missing notes added back in:

music puzzle!

decayed grassland (piano cover)

link to a larger version of the cover art: click here. this link is provided for convenience only

[sweetly-cider]

Everything feels better when you’re dancing~