Accents are symbols placed on top or below one or several notes. It tells you how the note should sound: Hard, soft, short, attacked, hammered... Accents are often referred as articulation.
Articulation symbols indicate how a note should sound. Accents are one group of articulation that indicates how hard, soft, short or long a note should sound. Other articulation symbols indicates that a note should be repeated a number of times or should express a certain texture.
There are five basic accent symbols. Three of these accents could be paired with the staccato. The staccato indicates that the note should be held for about half its value. A series of staccato notes would sound as detached.
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