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What does this horizontal bar at the first measure mean?


What does this split stem notation mean?What does Grt. and Sw. mean in this organ score?What does this horizontal dotted line mean?What does a pair of long horizontal lines between two whole notes mean?What's this horizontal bar notation in liturgy called?What does “Time on” mean in the context of a Lead Sheet?What does this up bow/strum symbol at the end of a measure (in a classical guitar piece) mean?Reasoning for redundant “natural” (but not courtesy accidental)Strange “x” in front of noteheadWhat is this type of notehead called?













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I was looking at some sheet music when I came across something I am seeing for the first time. It looked like a horizontal bar on the first measure. Here is an image:



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    I was looking at some sheet music when I came across something I am seeing for the first time. It looked like a horizontal bar on the first measure. Here is an image:



    Bar



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      I was looking at some sheet music when I came across something I am seeing for the first time. It looked like a horizontal bar on the first measure. Here is an image:



      Bar



      What does this bar tell you? What is it for?






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      I was looking at some sheet music when I came across something I am seeing for the first time. It looked like a horizontal bar on the first measure. Here is an image:



      Bar



      What does this bar tell you? What is it for?






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          That is a multi-measure rest. It is equivalent to writing out fifteen bars of full-measure rests. This is done to save space, for example in orchestral parts.






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