System uses a list of names which are derived from The British or The European rhythmic naming I finally located the same slash-stems explanations as found in the Brooke Flute Method on the Dolmetsch site here. It's interesting to note that this slash-through-stem abbreviation was a little difficult to locate in this otherwise very complete music symbol page from Dolmetsch music history, theory and music dictionary online, which is otherwise an excellent resource. Since an eighth already has one beam, if a slash is added, that indicates to create two sixteenths (slash + 1/8th beam = two beams = sixteenth notes). This short-hand symbol method goes further into numbers of beams if you have a slash through an eighth note (see above jpeg). Exammple one beam (one dot, = 8th notes) (two dots = divide into 16ths four dots = divide into 32nd notes.)
DEMI HEMI SEMI QUAVER PDF
The PDF version is easier to view and read.Īs you will see slashes through note stems and/or dots shown above the note head indicate the same principle: Divide the note into the value that has the number of beams.
DEMI HEMI SEMI QUAVER FULL
This picture is taken from the excellent flute method book by Alfred Brooke:Ī full page pdf version of the above page from the Brooke Method for flute is here in PDF, and shows further practise samples of these note division abbreviations. Just as thirty-seconds have three beams, this slash mark has three beams".
Three slashes mean to divide that note value into thirty-seconds. Look at it as "sixteenths have two beams". Two slashes through a quarter note stem mean to divide that note value into sixteenths. Look at it as "eighth notes have one beam, so one slash on a quarter note means eighth notes". One slash through a the stem of a quarter note* (British "crochet" translation below) means for you to divide that note value into eighth notes*. These slashes represent a short-hand method of indicating dividing the written pitch into repeated eighth notes, sixteenths or even 32nd notes all played on the same pitch. One of the abbreviations that often confuses the student, when it pops up unexpectedly in older printed music, is the symbol that looks like slashes through the note stems. There are many abbreviations in printed music which have been used over the past 1-3 centuries to make hand-written music faster to copy out, use less ink, and allow some music to be abbreviated for ease of page turns and the like.
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