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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 the caret symbol ^, mean in guitar tablature?What does Opt. S.D. mean?What does the music notation “/ / / /” mean in a music drum score?Mix between Half Notes and Eighth Notes: What Kind of Note is This?What does “fouettez en tirant” mean?Meaning of a dotted quarter note next to bpm in sheet musicWhat do the numbers 2 & 3 mean (duplet/tuplet/finger indication?) in this first bar of a song?What 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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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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