musical theory

8/4/2019 Musical Theory

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Musical Theory


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Treble Clef


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Semibreve

Lasts for four beats.


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Minim

Lasts for two beats.


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Crotchet

Lasts for one beats


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Quaver

beat


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A dotted minim

Lasts for three beats


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Semibreve rest. 4 beats of silence.


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Minim rest

2 beats of silence


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Crotchet Rest

One breath of silence


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Quaver Rest

Half a beat of silence


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Semi quaver rest


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Note values and Rests

Semibreve = four beats

Minim = two beats

Crotchet = one beat Quaver = half beat

Semiquaver = quarter beat


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Clefs

A clef is a musical symbol placed at thebeginning of the staff that determines theletter names of the lines and spaces. The

two main clefs are the treble and the bass.
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A grand staff is a combination of both thetreble and bass clefs connected by avertical line on the left side of the staves

(plural staffs)


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Bar lines and time signatures

Bar lines

Double bar line


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Ledger lines are an extension of the staff.They are additional lines both above andbelow which are parallel to the staff. Each

ledger line contains one note.


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Each note has a specific duration


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Meter

Meter is the regular recurring pattern of strongand weak beats of equal duration also known astime. The meter or time signature in a musicalcomposition is indicated by a fraction and

located at the beginning of a piece of music. Thelower number of the fraction tells what kin d ofnote receives one beat. the upper number tellshow many beats are in a measure

In western music there are two types of mete,simple and compound in simple meter the uppernumber is either 2 3 or 4 each beat is subdividedby two.


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At the beginning of a piece of music you willusually find two numbers, for example.

The most common simple time signaturesare 2/4, 3/4, and 4/4.


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A staff/stave is made up of five horizontallines and four spaces.


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Notes and their names.

Pitches are named after the first sevenletters of the alphabet (A B C D E F G)


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In a musical score, the time signatureappears at the beginning of the piece, as atime symbol or stacked numerals (such as

or 3/4) immediately following the keysignature (or immediately following the clefif the piece is in C major, A minor, or a

modal subset). A mid-score timesignature, usually immediately following abar line, indicates a change of meter.
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4/4 is sometimes represented by thesymbol C (short for common time)


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Bar lines

Bar lines are placed on the musical staff toseparate the divisions of the. Time isdivided in groups of pulses as defined in

the time signature. The space betweentwo bar lines is called a measure or bar.

A double bar line, not to be confused withthe double line, indicates that the end ofthe piece of music has been reached.


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Elementary Time Values

4 beats = semibreve

2 beats = Minim

1 beats = crotchet = quaver


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A minim lasts for two beats/crotchets

A semibreve lasts for four beats/crotchets

A semibreve lasts for 2 minims A minim lasts for 4 quavers

A crotchet lasts for 2 quavers

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