What is the meaning of the symbol that looks like a cursive in front of the tune on the fifth line of music?

Scattered passages in piano music are marked with the symbol "サ" on the third line of the score.

The symbol "サ" is derived from the radical of the Chinese character "散". It means that the rhythm of this section is relatively free, and the rhythm, beat, and tempo can be handled freely according to the player's understanding.

The Scatterboard symbol "サ" is a term used in Chinese folk music to refer to a kind of free rhythm with a slow and irregular tempo. It is often used in traditional instrumental music, Chinese folk songs and opera. The earliest musical compositions to utilize the shengban were the guqin, which began to be notated in the Jin Dynasty, and the ya music of the Tang Dynasty.

The elegant music of the Tang Dynasty was structured in the form of "sequence, break, and rush," where the sequence is the loose plate, the break is the slow plate, and the rush is the fast plate, and many Chinese music pieces have a similar structure.

The symbol "サ" used in piano music is in fact borrowed from the terminology of Chinese folk music.





































All the way up, you're singing 1, and all the way down you're singing 2.

2, recognize the notes

Generally speaking, the notes are composed of three parts: the note head, the note stem and the note tail; the note head can be hollow or solid, with the difference of half the number of beats between the two; in addition to the whole note, all other notes have a note stem, and increasing the note stem reduces the original time value by half; the corresponding tone is sung according to the line where the note head is located, or in between.

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The dotted note is a small dot to the right of the note's head, which is used to increase the note's beat value. If a note has a dot to the right of the note's head, then the note's beat value is increased by 1/2 beat on top of the original.