Quick Links This Day in Music History Music Education @ DataDragon.com Music Education Forums Maintain Your Forum Information Bernadette Peters - Broadway's Best Sudoku (take a break for a puzzle!) Topic: An unfamiliar mark From the Music Questions forum. Post a reply or begin a new topic. View other threads or jump to a different forum. Enter your search terms Submit search form   Web datadragon.com Author Topic:   An unfamiliar mark Anonymous Anonymous Poster From Internet Network: 216.148.246.x posted: 10/25/2004 at 4:02:26 PM ET What does a mark ~ mean above a note and how is it performed along the note? maintube Registered User Registered: 5/26/2004 posted: 10/25/2004 at 5:02:04 PM ET I think what you are refering to is a "turn" or in Italian The Grupetto. The mark is actually more pronounced than ~, but this is the only key on the PC keyboard that comes close to it. The Rubank Books define it as_"consisting of four tones: the next scale tone above the written Tone, the written tone itself, the tone below the written tone, and the written tone again. Fro eaxample if the turn mark(~) is above a G, you would quickly play G,A,G,F# and G then the next written note (whatever). Hope this helps. Almost any Rubank woodwind book has a good explanation of musical ornaments. Anonymous Anonymous Poster From Internet Network: 66.119.34.x posted: 10/26/2004 at 4:21:43 PM ET It helped. Thank you. maintube Registered User Registered: 5/26/2004 posted: 10/27/2004 at 11:29:18 AM ET No problem Do you think this topic is inappropriate? Vote it down. After a thread receives a certain amount of negative votes it will be automatically locked. Please contact us with any concerns you might have.

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