A ledger line or leger line is used in Western musical notation to notate pitches above or below the lines and spaces of the regular musical staff . A line slightly longer than the note head is drawn parallel to the staff, above or below, spaced at the same distance as the lines within the staff.
13-457: (Redirected from Minims ) Minim may refer to: Minim, British English for a half note (which usually gets two beats) MINIM (band) , an industrial rock band from Spain Minim (unit) , a small amount of fluid, essentially a standardized drop Order of Minims , a member of a religious order founded by St. Francis of Paula Franciscan Minims of
26-510: A global satellite internet, telephony and fax network operated by Inmarsat Minim, French for "little one", was used at the University of Notre Dame from the 1840s to the 1920s to describe students in their grade school department See also [ edit ] Minimum Minimi (disambiguation) Minime (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
39-491: Is a 19th-century loan translation of German halbe Note . The Catalan, French, and Spanish names ( blanca , blanche , meaning "white") derive from the fact that the minima was the shortest unfilled note in mensural white notation, which is true of the modern form as well. The form in the earlier black notation resembles the modern quarter note (crotchet). The Greek, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean names mean "half", and in Greek,
52-409: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Half note In music , a half note (American) or minim (British) is a note played for half the duration of a whole note (or semibreve) and twice the duration of a quarter note (or crotchet). It was given its Latin name ( minima , meaning "least or smallest") because it was the shortest of
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78-460: The cello, bassoon or trombone, use tenor clef for the high notes rather than the treble clef. Alto clef is used for the alto trombone , and for the tenor trombone parts in Russian repertoire. Bass trombone and tuba use the bass clef only. A ledger line is also used to support a half rest [REDACTED] or whole rest [REDACTED] where there are multiple voices on one staff and such
91-420: The composer would usually switch clefs or use the 8 notation. Some transposing instruments , such as the piccolo , double bass , guitar , and the tenor voice , transpose at the octave to avoid ledger lines. Notation of tuba , trombone , and euphonium parts always use ledger lines below the bass staff, and never the 8 bassa notation ( Read 1969 , 354). Music for bass clef instruments, such as
104-421: The five note values used in early medieval music notation . Half notes are notated with a hollow oval notehead like a whole note and straight note stem with no flags like a quarter note (see Figure 1). The half rest (or minim rest ) denotes a silence of the same duration. Half rests are drawn as filled-in rectangles sitting on top of the middle line of the musical staff , although in polyphonic music
117-536: The modern word ( miso – μισό) and older ( imisi – ήμισι) are used. Ledger line The origin of the word is uncertain, but may have been borrowed attributively from the term for a horizontal timber in a scaffolding , lying parallel to the face of the building and supporting the putlogs . There is no basis to support the often-found claim that the word originates from the French léger , meaning "light" or "slight" ( OED 2005 ). The Oxford online dictionary describes
130-458: The origin of the "leger" spelling as a "variant of ledger" that first appeared in the 19th century ( Oxford Living Dictionary n.d. ). Although ledger lines are found occasionally in manuscripts of plainchant and early polyphony , it was only in the early 16th century in keyboard music that their use became at all extensive ( Anon. 2001 ). Even then, printers had an aversion to ledger lines which caused difficulties in setting type, wasting space on
143-557: The page and causing a messy appearance. Vocal music employed a variety of different clefs to keep the range of the part on the staff as much as possible; in keyboard notation a common way of avoiding ledger lines was the use of open score on four staves with different clefs ( Godwin 1974 , 16–17). Except for woodwind players, who prefer ledger lines to 8 notation because they associate fingerings with staff positions ( Shatzkin 1993 , 48), notes that use at least four ledger lines make music more difficult to read. For easier readability,
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#1732772755307156-399: The rest may need to be moved to a different line or even a ledger line . As with all notes with stems, half notes are drawn with upward stems on the right when they are below the middle line of the staff and downward stems on the left when they are on or above the middle line. In vocal music, notes on the middle line have a downward stem instead of an upward stem. The American term half note
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