Just a guess, but it's probably the composer/editor's "helpful" instruction to sing an eighth note and breathe instead of singing a full quarter.
But don't use it...the apostrophe/comma above the barline tells the singers all they need to know. The note in parentheses is an added distraction. The standard way of indicating special performance instructions that are difficult to notate in standard notation (which this is NOT) would be to use a footnote ( a small asterisk or a number like in a book ) and at the bottom of the page, write: "Sing an 1/8th instead of a 1/4 note, then take a breath and proceed." But you do not need anything like this for this example. LKent Tampa FL On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 4:19 PM, Son_V <vincenzo.a...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all and excuse me; I found this symbol, parenthesis before and after a > note added to a 2/4 beat: here it is; > > <http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/file/n167597/Strange_sign.jpg> > > that should be a note inserted when singing for the second time the beat. > How can I insert in in the score? How can it be called? I posted some days > ago the request for a "visual" dictionary for musical notation; That could > have helped me. Maybe I'll try to make a first edition of it. > Thanks. > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/A-sign-I-can-t-understand-tp167597.html > Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user >
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