Overlapping notes

Throughout this chapter you encounter the term “overlapping notes”. Two notes are considered overlapping when they are on the same staff and:

• They start at the same position, but have different note values (for example whole note and a quarter note both at the beginning of a bar).

  

  Figure: Notes starting at the same position, without and with polyphonic voices.

• One note starts before another has ended. For example a half note at the beginning of a bar and an eighth note at the second beat.

  

  Figure: A note that starts before another has ended, without and with polyphonic voices.