Composers use a range of signs and symbols to show how they want their music to be played. This was essential in times before music could be recorded and replayed, but it is still important today.

On the Something Special page of the CBeebies website, you can join in with Justin singing songs and signing along, watch clips of Makaton signs for many words, and print off some Makaton symbols.

This allows even distorted representations of the music score to be analyzed accurately, taking into account tilted symbols ...