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How to Read Music · 4th edition

Example 1.5

Quarter-note and eighth-note rests

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Figure 1.10 on piano at 80 BPM.

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The Musical Staff and Its Elements

Example 1.1A violin part
Example 1.2Single and double bar lines
Example 1.3The final bar line
Example 1.4Beamed eighth notes
Example 1.5Quarter-note and eighth-note rests
Example 1.6Repeat signs
Example 1.7Repeating a bar
Example 1.8D.S., D.C., Fine and Coda
Example 1.9First and second endings
Example 1.10Checkpoint 1.3: Repeats and endings
Example 1.11Checkpoint 1.4: D.C. al Fine

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