Demonstration of how to encode turn ornaments. The example is from Beethoven's piano sonata no. 1 in F minor, op. 2, no. 1, mvmt. 2: Adagio. The first turn is centered above the note it applies to. The second turn in the next measure is centered between the note it is applied to and the following note in the layer. Both of the example turns have accidentals underneath them; the first has a natural sign which means play the lower diatonic note as a natural (B-natural). The second has a sharp sign underneath it which means play a sharped lower diatonic tone (F-sharp). Turns can also have accidentals placed above them which indicate the chromatic alteration of the upper diatonic tone.
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