In musical notation, a natural sign is a sign used to cancel a flat or sharp from either a preceding note or the key signature. The Unicode character '♮' (U+266E) may display as a natural sign on some computers. Naturals are assumed (by default) in key signatures and mentioned only in key signature changes. Hand-written musical notation by Johann Sebastian Bach. ... Image File history File links Music-natural. ... Figure 1. ... Figure 1. ... In musical notation, a key signature is a series of sharp symbols or flat symbols placed on the staff, designating notes that are to be played one semitone higher or lower unless otherwise noted with an accidental. ... Due to technical limitations, some web browsers may not display some special characters in this article. ... The tower of a personal computer. ...

In highly chromatic and atonal music, to prevent any ambiguity in performance, natural signs may be placed in front of any note that is to be neither flattened (flatted) nor sharpened (sharped). In music, chromatic indicates the inclusion of notes not in the prevailing scale and is also used for those notes themselves (Shir-Cliff et al 1965, p. ... Atonality in a general sense describes music that departs from the system of tonal hierarchies that are said to characterized the sound of classical European music from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries. ...