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There might’ve been times when you’ve come across difficult musical symbol marks in animation, such as the “:||” in “Shin Evangelion the Movie:||” (also known as Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 in English), and the “X”, “mp” or “Mf” symbol marks for characters in “Idolish7”. For that purpose, a “Searching for meaning by looking up these unusual ‘shapes’, a dictionary of musical symbols, junior edition” will be released on Apr. 19, 2020. The dictionary will allow you to search for these musical symbols by shape, even if you don’t know how to pronounce them.

This book, “Searching for meaning by looking up these unusual ‘shapes’, a dictionary of musical symbols, junior edition” is a full-color dictionary that will allow you to look up unknown musical symbols and terms by shape. The book is split up into the following categories: “Notes / Rests”, “Clef”, “Time Signatures”, “Modulation Symbols”, “Dynamic Marks”, “Tempo Markings”, “Repeat Symbols”, “Articulation Symbols”, “Stylistic Markings”, and “Others”. Since similar items are sorted close to each other, you can learn related symbols and terms on the adjacent pages.

It’s the perfect book if you want to figure out the meanings of musical symbols like those used in “Shin Evangelion the Movie :||”, “Idolish7”, “Saekano: How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend b” and “Ojamajo Doremi #”.

“Searching for meaning by looking up these unusual “shapes”, a dictionary of musical symbols, junior edition” will be sold for 1,900JPY (tax excluded). It will go on sale nationwide from Apr. 19, at Yamaha instrument specialty stores, bookstores, and online shops.