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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



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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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?






sheet-music




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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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    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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