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A boxed letter or number for finding a place in the music.
Also known as: Letter box music, Study mark
A rehearsal mark is a boxed letter or bar number placed at structural points so a conductor can say where to start. It carries no musical instruction at all, which makes it the only symbol on the page addressed to the rehearsal rather than to the performance.
Marks a place in the music that can be named aloud, drawn as a letter or number in a box or circle.
Contexts: Music
Carries no musical meaning: it exists solely so that a rehearsal can be restarted at an agreed point.
Contexts: Music
Is placed at structural boundaries rather than at even intervals, so that the mark falls where a rehearsal would naturally resume.
Contexts: Music
A capital letter or numeral enclosed in a square or circular outline above the staff.