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bar line

noun

Music.


bar line

noun

  1. music the vertical line marking the boundary between one bar and the next
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of bar line1

First recorded in 1925–30
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When this happens, the bar line will still appear at the end of the completed measure.

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Instrumental lines snake over bar lines, intersecting in convoluted ways.

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As in “Mass,” Bernstein changes idioms by the minute and rhythms, to Broadway’s dismay, by the bar line.

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For hundreds of years, Western composers have used bar lines to subdivide a piece of music.

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A wood bar lines the perimeter, offering socialization for you as well.

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