sheet music
handwritten or printed form of musical notation that uses musical symbols to indicate the pitches, rhythms, or chords of a song or instrumental musical piece
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Summary
sheet music ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,839 views/month).[1]
Key Facts
- Subclass of: notated music[2], musical work[3], structure[4]
- Has use: performed music[5], music performance[6]
- Commons category: Sheet music[7]
- Unicode character: 🎼[8]
- Topic's main category: Category:Sheet music[9]
- Described at URL: http://www.urfm.braidense.it/risorse/glossario_1984.php[10]
- Facet of: classical music[11]
- Described by source: Otto's encyclopedia[12], Riemann's Music Dictionary[13], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 9[14]
- Main Wikidata property: P3030[15]
- Equivalent class: http://bibliograph.net/MusicScore[16], https://citationstyles.org/ontology/type/musical_score[17]
- Different from: score[18], part[19], printed sheet music[20]
- Uses: figuring[21], notated music[22]
Why It Matters
sheet music has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[23] It is known by 50 alternative names across languages and contexts.[24]