bird’s eye

Definition: The musical slang term “bird’s eye” means fermata, and instructs a player to hold a note or chord for as long as desired.

See Grand Pause.

Also Known As:

• hold
• fermata; corona (It)
• point d’orgue (Fr)
• Fermate (Ger)

More Musical Symbols:

• ledger line
• F-clef
• (♯) sharp


• repeat sign
• music rest
• segno