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Music notation glossary · Repeats and jumps

Repeat sign

go back and play again

As a Unicode character — to paste into text, spreadsheets or chat. Whether it appears depends on the font.

In the score

Engraved by Verovio 6.3.0-425dd7b

What it means

Two dots before a barline: back to the beginning or to the mirrored sign. If there is no opening sign, go back to the start of the piece.

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Every note on this page is computed, not typed in — following the rule that also makes F# major spell its seventh degree E#, not F.