Notation guide
All scores published by eSLAPP are compatible with this guide.
Microtonal accidental

Quarter-tone accidental

Action

Bisbigliando

Open mouth (ord.)

Closed mouth

Speech-bubble

Yawn

Invisible notehead

Center

Chromatic cluster

Col legno battuto

Col legno gettato

Con crini

Con crini glissando

With the hands

Tailpiece

Crotale bowed over the timpani

Behind the bridge

Dynamics in parentheses

On the bell (Timpani)

Exhale

Flute out/in

Dead stroke

Strike the strings

Growl + Sing

Güiro

Harmonic cluster

Harmonic gliss

Mallet indication

Inhale

Jet whistle

Lateral bow scrape

LH pizzicato

Mezzo

Look at the audience

Look with a crazy face

Mute

Niente

Clarifying time notation

Pitchless notation

Palm mute

Pause

Pizzicato

Bartók pizzicato

Ordinary pizzicato

Pizzicato sul ponticello

Cymbal bowed over the timpani

Play

Head position

Pick at the end of the strings

Pick on metal

Bridge (pont.)

Rim belly

Wild and crazy

Scratch tone

Seagull effect

Slap (w/ tone)

Slap (w/o tone)

Slow motion bow

Slow motion bow & slow motion gliss

Slow motion gliss

Overpressure (strings)

Overpressure (winds)

Click sound

Tonlos (bowed string)

Airy sound (winds - voice)

Didgeridoo sound

Key clicks

Stopped (with object)

Stopped (muted)

Sul ponticello

Sul tasto

Swap

Tambora

As high as possible

Tap

Tapping

Teeth tone

Tongue ram

Tongue trill

Tremolo

Tremolo / Trill

Long irregular tremolo

Throat trill

Lip trill

Neck

Nails

Whammy bar

Whistle tone (closed)

Whistle tone (open)

Piano zones


