Dashes after a note lengthen it, each dash by the length of a quarter note.Ī dot after the plain or underlined note works increases its length by half, and two dots by three quarters. Each underline halves the note length: One represents an eighth note (quaver), two represent a sixteenth note (semiquaver), and so on. The plain number represents a quarter note (crotchet). Each note has its own octave dots, but only the lowest note has the length lines (next section).Īrpeggiated chords are notated by writing the standard Western arpeggiation symbol to the left of the chord.Ĭhord symbols such as Cm may be used if the exact voicing is unimportant. Thus the dots below numbers do not always vertically align with each other, since some of them may be moved slightly downward so as not to collide with the note length lines.Ĭhords can be transcribed by vertically stacking the notes, with the lowest note at the bottom as with Western notation. Where there are note length lines (see following section) underneath the numbers, any dots are placed below the lines. Where there is more than one dot above or below the number, the dots are vertically stacked: Musical scales can thus be written as follows: The number of dots equals the number of octaves. ('Si' has been supplanted in English by 'ti', for the sake of having a different beginning consonant for each degree.)ĭots above or below a musical note raise or lower it to other octaves. When the notes are read aloud or sung, they are called 'do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, si'. For example, in the key of C, their relationship with the notes and the solfège is as follows: They always correspond to the diatonic major scale. Numbers 1 to 7 represent the musical notes (more accurately the scale degrees). Numbered notation described Musical notes It is also known as Ziffernsystem, meaning 'number system' or ' cipher system' in German. It dates back to the system designed by Pierre Galin, known as Galin-Paris-Chevé system. 'simplified notation', not to be confused with the integer notation) is a cipher notation system used in China, and to some extent in Japan (with 7th being si, ), Indonesia (in a slightly different format called 'not angka'), Malaysia, Australia, Ireland, the United Kingdom, the United States and English-speaking Canada. The numbered musical notation ( simplified Chinese: 简谱 traditional Chinese: 簡譜 pinyin: jiǎnpǔ lit. ( September 2017) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)

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