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There are different kinds of musical stress marks that mean different things. All of them are placed above the note that they pertain to. A staccato Is simply a small dot like a period ( . ). a staccatissimo looks like an exclamation point with the dot part being the note head ( ! ) (I personally nave never seen any of these but they were more common in Mozarts days). The marcato is the name for two different kind of stress marks that act slightly different. One looks like an upside down V ( /\ ) and the other is a greater-than sign from mathematics ( > ). There is also the tenuto notated with a horizontal bar ( _ ).

Stacatto is short.

Stacattissimo is even shorter that the stacatto.

Marcatos are played more forcefully than normal.

Tenuto is played long.

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