Music Appreciation

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Music Appreciation

• Behold, the beginnings of music!

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Five Lines and a Squiggle Thats it.

• The Staff
• Five lines and four spaces, indicating which
  pitch to play
• Vertical lines break the staff in to sections,
  called measures

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Five Lines and a Squiggle Thats it.

• The Clefs
• A symbol that determines the range of notes
  played on the staff
• Found at the beginning of every staff
• Two main clefs Treble and Bass

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Five Lines and a Squiggle Thats it.

• The Clefs Treble
• Indicates higher notes, the top half of a piano
• Called the G clef

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Five Lines and a Squiggle Thats it.

• The Clefs Bass
• Indicates lower notes, the bottom half of the
  piano
• Called the F clef

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Five Lines and a Squiggle Thats it.

• Note Names
• Each line and space in a staff has a name,
  corresponding to a certain note
• Names differ between Treble and Bass clefs

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Five Lines and a Squiggle Thats it.

• Note Names Treble
• Lines E, G, B, D, and F
  (Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge)
• Spaces F, A, C, and E
  (FACE, heh)

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Five Lines and a Squiggle Thats it.

• Note Names Bass
• Lines G, B, D, F, and A
  (Good Boys Deserve Fudge Always)
• Spaces A, C, E, and G
  (All Cows Eat Grass)

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Five Lines and a Squiggle Thats it.

• Other Clefs Percussion
• Used for percussion instruments, on a single line
  staff, or sometimes a five line staff too

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Five Lines and a Squiggle Thats it.

• Other Clefs C clefs
• Called the movable clef
• Whichever line is in the middle of the clef
  symbol, that line is middle C

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Little Circles for the Lines, too.

• Notes
• Symbols used to designates pitches and rhythms in
  music
• Position in staff determines pitch
• Shape of note determines rhythm (duration)

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Little Circles for the Lines, too.

• Notes Types
• Whole Note four beats
• Half Note two beats (half of a whole note)

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Little Circles for the Lines, too.

• Notes Types
• Quarter Note one beat (quarter of a whole note,
  half of a half note)
• Eighth note half a beat (hopefully by now you
  see the pattern

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Little Circles for the Lines, too.

• Notes Types
• Notes continue in to sixteenth and thirty-second
  notes, but those are two small and fast to really
  matter right now

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Little Circles for the Lines, too.

• The Dot!
• Adding a dote to a note multiplies its duration
  by 1.5
• Thus, a half note with a dote is three beats
  (2 x 1.5 3)

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The Antithesis of Little Circles.

• Rests
• Just like a note, but stand for silence instead
  of a played pitch
• Oh, they look different, too.

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Now We Add Some Numbers

• Time Signature
• A set of stacked numbers that determines the
  meter of the music
• Top Number number of beats in a measure
• Bottom Number size of a note that determines
  what a single beat is

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Now We Add Some Numbers

• Time Signature Denominator explained
• Bottom number is the note determining the beat
  (pulse)
• Common time number is a 4, so a quarter note
  equals the beat
• So, if the number is 8, and eighth note is the
  pulse/beat of the music

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But What Does It Sound Like?

• Key
• Key is an arranged pattern of notes that
  correspond to a tonic pitch
• 12 major keys, 12 minor keys

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But What Does It Sound Like?

• And that means what?
• It just means its the characteristic sound of
  the music

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But What Does It Sound Like?

• Key Signature
• Symbols that indicate what they key of the music
  is
• Designated by sharps or flats at the beginning of
  every staff
• Each key has a set number of sharps or flats in
  it
• Sharps raise a pitch, flats lower a pitch

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But What Does It Sound Like?

• Sharps and Flats
• Order of Flats BEADGCF
• Order of Sharps FCGDEAB

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Do We Have Music Now?

• Yes, we do.
• Put it all together (staff, clef, notes,
  measures, key, time), and you have some simple
  music.
• Though, there is much more to it than that.

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The End.