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Beginner Musicians Musical Symbols, Terms and Definitions
Music is a language in itself. It is very much like learning to speak and read a foreign language because each musical symbol stands for a very specific musical meaning. Take the time to carefully read through the music terms in this article to prepare you for music training on any instrument, including the human voice!
Begin your musical study by becoming familiar with these very important musical terms:
BAR LINE – A vertical line which separates notes into groups
DOUBLE BAR LINE – A set of two (2) vertical lines which stand for the end of a piece of music
REPEAT SIGN – Double bar with two dots at the end of a section or piece of music which indicates that section will be played twice.
MEASURE – The distance between two bar lines.
TREBLE CLEF – The S-shaped symbol which stands for notes played with the right hand. This is also referred to as the G cleff since this inner curve of the symbol rests on the G line.
BASS CLEF – The reversed C-shaped symbol which stand for notes played with the left hand. This clef is also referred to as the F cleff since the two dots beside the clef surround the F line.
STAFF – The five lines and four spaces of both the bass and treble clefs.
QUARTER NOTE – Musical symbol with solid note head and stem which gets one count of sound.
QUARTER REST – Musical symbol resembling a sideways W which gets one count of silence.
HALF NOTE – Musical symbol with hollow note head and stem which gets two counts of sound.
HALF REST – Solid half block sitting on third line of the staff which gets two counts of silence.
DOTTED HALF NOTE – Musical symbol with hollow note head, dot and stem which gets three counts of sound.
WHOLE NOTE – Musical symbol resembling a circle on the staff which gets four counts of sound.
WHOLE REST – Solid half block hanging from the second line on the staff which gets four counts of silence.
CHORD – Two or more notes played at the same time.
BLOCKED CHORD – Two or more notes from the same chord played at the same time.
BROKEN CHORD – Two or more notes from the same chord played in sequence.
INTERVAL – The distance between two notes on the musical staff.
FINGERING – Refers to which finger number is used to play a particular note (See Chapter Two: Fingering)
CURVED FINGER – Refers to playing with a rounded finger and on the tip of each finger. This is the best position of the fingers for playing piano or keyboard because it develops finger strength and independence.
Question by monica: A bird tattoo made out of musical symbols?
My friend recently showed me a picture of a tattoo of a bird where the bird was made up of musical symbols, (fermatta for the head, sharp sign for the feet, etc) does anyone have a picture of what I’m talking about?
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Answer by Lovinlife
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12 Palaces of Chinese Astrology
The 12 Palaces of Chinese Astrology (Polaris Astrology, Real Chinese Astrology) 1. Life Palace
This is the most important palace among the 12 palaces. It represents a person’s personality, psyche, and behavior. It also represents one’s innate abilities, physical appearance.
2. Sibling Palace
Sibling palace represents the relationship between a person and his or her siblings. It also represents the number of siblings and the gender of siblings.
3. Spouse Palace
Spouse palace represents a person’s love life, a person’s relationship between his or her spouse. It also represent the physical appearance and personality of a person’s spouse. It foretells if the person is going to have early marriage, late marriage, never married or in risk of divorce.
4. Children Palace
Children palace represents the gender of a person’s children, the number of children, the personalities of children and the relationship between the children and the parents.
5. Wealth Palace
Wealth palace represents a person’s wealth, poor or rich. How he or she feels about money, and how money is acquired.
6. Health Palace
Health Palace represents a person’s health. What type of health problem he or she may have or at risk of.
7. Journey Palace
Journey palace represents the external relationship between a person and others, especially when a person is traveling or moving from places to palace.
8. Friend Palace
Friend Palace represents the relationship between a person and his or her friends. What type of friends dose a person have, good friends or bad friends. Friend palace is formerly called Servant palace. Today most people just call it friend palace.
9. Career Palace
Career Palace represents a person’s career. What type of occupation a person has. Is he or she making money from his or her occupation. Dose a person feels good or bad about his or her occupation. How dose a person’s life being affected by his or her occupation.
10. Estate Palace
Estate palace represents a person’s possession, most importantly, the possession of real estate. Literally, in Chinese, the Estate palace is called farm and real estate palace
11. Pleasure Palace
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Pleasure palace represents a person’s interest and hobby. How a person spends his or her money. This palace is also very important, similar to the life, it is about a person’s psyche and feelings.
12. Parent Palace (Physical Appearance Palace)
Parent Palace represents the relationship between a person and his or her parents including his or her employer or superior. In some branches of Polaris astrology, the Parent palace is also called the Physical appearance palace.
13. Body Palace
According to most of the Polaris astrology litterateurs, the Life palace is called “before heaven” it represents a person’s innate abilities or personalities that he or she is born with. The Body palace is called “after heaven”. It represents the abilities a person could acquire or achieve, if he or she worked hard enough. According to some astrologers, the importance of the Body palace is no less then the Life palace and the pleasure palace.
In addition, some astrologers believe that because the life palace is before heaven and the Body palace is after heaven, the Life palace represents the earlier part of a person’s life which is before the age of forty. The Body Palace represents the later part of a person’s life, after the age of forty. Therefore, when analyzing the earlier part of a person’s life, The life palace should receive more focus then the Body palace. Vice versa for analyzing the later part of a person’s life. This concept is only supported by a small group of astrologers, and I currently do not have enough statistic to confirm it.
Palaces that are Shared by the Body Palaces
Due to the rules on determining the Life palace and the body palace, the Body palace can only share its location with one of the following six palaces:
1. Life Palace 2. Career Palace 3. Wealth Palace
4. Journey Palace 5. Spouse Palace 6. Pleasure Palace
Whichever palace the Body palace shears with, It is where one’s energy is mostly focus on.
Indicates that a person is constantly focusing his energy on himself, have great fortitude and emotionally strong. However, this can sometimes means stubbornness.
Indicates career is everything, a person of such is constantly in pursuit of leadership and recognition for what he does.
Indicates nothing is more important than money. a person of such is very economical and never wastes money.
A person of such loves to travel and doesn’t like to stay at one place for long. His working environment is always changing.
Because such person is constantly focusing his or her energy on spousal matters and family life, his or her emotion on such matters is highly sensitive. Thus, it can be interpreted as emotionally weak. Any minor wrong doings from the spouse, boyfriend or girlfriend can hurt his or her feelings.
Such person is constantly in pursuit of his hobbies and interest. He can be emotionally distressed if his occupation is not in the field of his interest.
*Please be advised that the above definitions are only general descriptions. Whether it is auspicious or inauspicious depends on stars in its palace, the opposite palace and companion palaces etc.
Major Fortune and Minor Fortune
While the 12 Palaces represent all the aspects of one’s life, Major-fortune and Minor-fortune represent the fortunes or the happenings that had or will occur to a person during particular period of his or her life.
You can find out more about Polaris Astrology at www.PloarisAstrology.com
Question by Aneri V: What are the Imperial Palaces in the Ming and Qing Dynasties in Beijing?
What are the imperial palaces in the ming and qing dynasties? Are they the winter and summer palaces? Are the winter and summer palaces located in the forbidden city of Beijing?
Thanks!
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Answer by Claire U
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