q - Notated music One-character alphabetic code that indicates the category of material to which
the item belongs is notated music, which is defined as
graphic, non-realized representations of musical works, both in printed and
digitized manifestations. It includes musical scores and/or parts, diagrammatic
representations, tablature, instructions for chance compositions, pictures or
paintings intended as musical compositions, square note notation, klavarskribo,
chant notation, neumes, braille, and other ways of representing the four
components of musical sound: pitch, duration, timbre, and loudness. Notated
music is often the means for communicating to the performer(s) how the musical
work notated therein is to be realized in sound. A fill character (|) is not
allowed in this position.