Elements Of A Score

Sir Duke : Stevie Wonder

A. G#m = It is a G-sharp-minor-chord and its in the 2nd bar, it tells the person to play G# B D#.

B. In bar 14 there is a quaver and a minim with a slur on top because a quaver is half a beat and a minim is 2 beats but the slur on top tells the player to play the same note for 2 and a half beats but they should sustain it. The Note is a G#.

C. In bar 21 NC = stands for No Chord 

D. In bar 28 it says D.C al Coda this means "Go back to the beginning" telling the player to go back to start of the score and start again. The al coda part means that the player should skip to forward to the next coda sign. 

E. In Bar 30 it says x3 meaning that something needs to be repeated 3 times but the repeat mark at bar 28 and bar 30 is saying that it should go back to the beginning of bar 28 and start again but only from 28 to 30 but just play it 3 times.

F. Bar 37 is a Semi quaver rest but its just before a crochet, but because its a semi quaver rest it is telling the player to take a breathe for 1/4 seconds. 

Is She Not Passing Fair?

A. Bar 1 above the bar it says Allegro molto means to perform the indicated passage of a composition at a very fast tempo.

B. Its called Brace but can also be called Curved Brackets, this is used to connect two or more different staves together in a musical score system.  The brackets are what connect the two piano parts witch is the bass and treble cleff and this helps the player to understand how it should be played.

C. In bar 9 dim. is at the top of the bar witch is the abbreviation of diminuendo this means that the volume has to be smoothly decreased  in a specific part of the passage.

D. Ped. tells the performer to depress the damper pedal and the marking to indicate the release of the damper pedal or that the pedal should be pressed.

E. Colla Parte is an italian term for with the voice. This means that at the part of the song it should be sang in that part of the song.

F. Accel. is the abbreviation of Accelerando this means gradually accelerating or getting faster. This tells the player that, that specific part should be played faster.

G. a tempo means that it will go back to the original tempo it was before after its been speed up or slowed down it would go back to its original tempo it started of at.