Latin prefix mal- is a word forming element meaning "bad, badly, I'll poorly, wring, or wrongly"
Especially in the days before audio recording and playback, music was often written out as a means of preserving and communicating it. To do this, a system of notation was developed that gives musicians the information they need to play music as the composer intended it.
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The answer I got after a long research is D pathos
