What does this notation mean?
It is in 5/8 time. Is it some sort of a performance direction?
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4I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because this site isn't about completing someone's homework. – Tim Jun 19 '15 at 06:56
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7@Tim We don't have a rule against homework. It's one thing if it's low quality in which case we treat it like any other post: http://meta.music.stackexchange.com/a/2148/28 and http://meta.music.stackexchange.com/q/304/28 – Jun 19 '15 at 12:28
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How about a dupe: http://music.stackexchange.com/questions/7527/four-dots-over-tremolo-minim-half-note-with-slash – Josiah Jun 19 '15 at 14:50
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The beam fragments drawn through stems mean that each of the 8th notes should be divided into two 16th notes.
This has nothing to do with the 5/8 time, it's simply a shorthand notation to save writing a lot of note heads, particularly for dense tremolos.
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