A dot above or below a notehead, shortening the note without changing it.
Also known as: Staccato, Dot above a note
A dot above or below a note means play it short and detached. The identical dot placed after the note lengthens it instead — position is the whole difference.
Instructs the note to be played shortened and detached from what follows, without changing its written duration in the bar.
Contexts: Music
Is placed above or below the notehead, on the opposite side from the stem, which distinguishes it from the augmentation dot placed after the head.
Contexts: Music
Shortens by no fixed proportion. How short is a matter of style, period and instrument, and no notation specifies it.
Contexts: Music
A small solid round dot centred directly above or below a notehead, on the opposite side from the stem.
The same dot; only its position tells articulation from duration.
Articulation marks placed against a notehead.