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: notes 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:   notes Anonymous Anonymous Poster From Internet Network: 62.6.139.x posted: 5/17/2005 at 6:48:34 AM ET what does a dot above or beneath a note mean TheHornSupremacy Registered User Registered: 11/17/2004 posted: 5/17/2005 at 9:33:37 AM ET Staccato. Basically means to play the note about half of its normal value. If you were to play a series of these in a row, they would sound detached from each other. This notation is the opposite of Portamento, which means to play the note for its full duration. The symbol for Portamento is a line (as opposed to a dot) above or below the note. 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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