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music-glossary: note head

 
 1.215 note head
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 ES: cabeza, I: testa, testina, capocchia, F: tête de note, D: Notenkopf,
 NL: nootballetje, DK: nodehovede, S: nothuvud, FI: nuotin pää.
 
    A head-like sign which indicates pitch by its position on a staff
 provided with a clef, and duration by a variety of shapes such as hollow
 or black heads with or without stems, flags, etc.  For percussion
 instruments (often having no defined pitch) the note head may indicate
 the instrument.
 
 
 See also
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    clef, flag, staff, stem.
 

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