VANESSA C. DEL CASTILLO
BSED 2A
PARTIDO STATE UNIVERSITY
COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
What is Music?
Music is something that arouses interest and is pleasurable. The casual
fan may learn about music, how to read music, how to sing, or how to play a
musical instrument, but they do not have the all encompassing passion a
musician possesses. Music is a means of relaxation for some, while others
simply enjoy listening to the sounds, melodies, and rhythms that music brings
to their ears, minds, and hearts.
The following definitions are taken from an article that defines music
according to different perspectives.
Music is science
It is exact, specific; and it demands exact acoustics. A conductor's full
score is a chart, a graph which indicates frequencies, intensities, volume
changes, melody, and harmony all at once and with the most exact control of
time.
Music is mathematical
It is rhythmically based on the subdivisions of time into fractions which
must be done, not worked out on paper.
Music is a foreign language
Most of the terms are in Italian, German, or French; and the notation is
certainly not English &endash; but a highly developed kind of shorthand
that uses symbols to represent ideas. The semantics of music is the most
complete and universal language.
Music is history
Music usually reflects the environment and times of its creations, often
even the country and/or racial feeling.
Music is physical education
It requires fantastic coordination of finger, hands, arms, lip, cheek,
and facial muscles, in addition to extraordinary control of the diaphragmatic
back, stomach, and chest muscles, which respond instantly to the sound the ear
hears and the mind interprets.
Music is art
It allows a human being to take all these dry, technically boring (but
difficult) techniques and use them to create emotion. That is one thing science
cannot duplicate: humanism, feeling, emotion, call it what you will.
Music
Commands & Symbols
Building
a Musical Staff
·
A
musical staff is a set of five horizontal
lines containing notes, rests, and musical symbols. When notes are
found off the staff, they’re placed on ledger lines.
The
Grand Staff
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The grand staff is the two-part piano
staff used to accommodate the piano’s wide range of notes:
Note
Lengths
The length of a note will tell you how many
What Are
Accidentals?
An accidental is a symbol that turns a
note into a sharp, a flat, or a natural:
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Natural (♮):
Returns a note to its original pitch after having been sharpened or flattened.
Naturals also cancel out sharps or flats implied by a key signature.
Key Signatures
A key signature expresses the key of a song by displaying which
notes have sharps or flats, if any. It is written as a pattern of accidentals
at the beginning of a staff, after the clef and before the time signature.
Key signatures imply accidentals throughout a song, so its sharps or flats will not be marked in the body
of the music; you must memorize which notes have accidentals by familiarizing
yourself with the key signature.
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