b (musical notation)

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A lowers an A to an Ace

The b or Be ( ) referred to in the notation of music the humiliation of a Stammtons a semitone . The character has roughly the shape of a stylized lowercase letter b . The character is written either on a line or a space on the staff and alters the pitch on that pitch. If the tone to be lowered is on an auxiliary line , the Be is placed in front of the auxiliary line.

The ending -es is added to the tone name of the altered tone . Exceptions: H becomes B , E becomes Es , A becomes As .

The symbol is used in two ways:

  • as an accidental , it is placed directly before a certain note ; it is only valid in the measure in which it is notated and only for the designated octave range
  • as an accidental it is immediately after the clef and is valid either until the end of the piece or until it is resolved by another accidental; it also applies to all octave ranges

history

In the older chorale notation , only two accidentals emerged from the 10th century, which always refer to the root note B : the b rotundum or also b molle ("round B") denotes the lower tone variant, the b quadratum or b durum ("Square B") the higher. The foreign-language designations bemolle (Italian) or bémol (French) and the name of the minor tone family are derived from the term b molle .

Representation in computer systems

In the international Unicode character coding system , the ♭ is in position U + 266D (“Musical Flat Sign”).

In LaTeX the loading is determined by the syntax \flatgenerated achieves the following result .

See also