The music symbols in the following graphics represent some of the tools a musician uses to express and communicate his or her ideas to the player and/or listener of music.

Like a painter who uses various colors from a palette and sets to canvas with different brush sizes and strokes to create a picture, a musician creates various musical colors with different symbols and tools from a musical palette and sets to manuscript.

  A Glance at Some Important Musical Symbols

Clicking each column’s graphic opens a window that displays info about that column’s symbols. A few of these secondary pop-up windows have links to some short lessons on the material.

Study well! I’ll see you next post.