MUSIC THEORY. The notes are represented by graphical symbols, also called notes or note signs.
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1 MUSIC THEORY 1. Staffs, Clefs & Pitch notation Naming the Notes Musical notation describes the pitch (how high or low), temporal position (when to start) and duration (how long) of discrete elements, or sounds, we call notes. The notes are represented by graphical symbols, also called notes or note signs. In English-speaking countries, the pitch names given to a row of notes steadily rising in pitch are drawn from the the first seven letters of the Roman alphabet: A B C D E F G In the Netherlands, the letters A to G are also used, but otherwise the 'Dutch' system follows the 'German' system, so-called because it originated in Germany, which also uses H. Staff or Stave The note signs are placed on a grid formed of horizontal lines and spaces. This grid is called the staff or stave. The plural of either word is staves. Although, in the past, staves could have many different numbers of lines, today the most common staff format has five lines separated by four spaces and is know as the pentagram. When numbering the lines, it is a widely used convention to number them from the bottom (1) to the top (5) of each staff. The spaces between the lines are numbered too, again from the bottom (1) to the top (4). 1
2 Music is read from 'left' to 'right', in the same direction as you are reading this text. The higher the pitch of the note, the higher vertically the note will be placed on the staff. Such notation is called diastematic or intervallic Placing Notes on the Staff Note signs may lie on a line (where the line passes through the note-head), in the space between two lines (where the note-head lies between two adjacent lines), in the space above the top line or on the space below the bottom line. Leger or Ledger Lines Note signs outside the range covered by the lines and spaces of the staff are placed on, above or below supplementary lines, called leger (or ledger) lines, which can be placed above or below the staff. Where two or more consecutive notes are written using leger lines, in order to make the notes easier to read, the lines for each note are always horizontally separated from those of the note following. 2
3 The Clef Sign To set the pitch of any note on the staff a graphical symbol called a clef (from the Latin clavis meaning key), clef sign or clef signature, is placed at the far left-hand side of the staff. The clef establishes the pitch of the note on one particular line of the staff and thereby fixes the pitch of all the other notes lying on, or related to, the same staff. It is common practice to visualise each clef as a part of a much larger grid of eleven horizontal lines and ten spaces known variously as the Great Staff, Grand Staff, Great Stave or Grand Stave. Note the relationship between the Great Staff and most commonly used clefs, treble (top left in the picture below), bass (bottom left in the picture below) and alto (right in the picture below). It should be stressed that, historically, there never was a staff of eleven lines. It is solely a 'construct' or 'device' used by theorists to demonstrate the relationship between various staves and clefs. The note we call middle C and which lies in the middle of the alto clef (for clarity, it is shown in red), lies one line below the five lines of the treble clef and lies one line above the five lines of the bass clef. The Treble Clef The treble clef is also called the G clef or G2 because the centre of the clef curls around the the horizontal line (2), marked in red in the diagram below, associated with the note G above middle C. The treble clef symbol is actually a stylised letter G. When drawing this symbol freehand it is easiest to start from the bottom of the symbol and end with the curl around the G line. 3
4 The Score We meet terms like 'letter', 'word', 'sentence', 'line', 'paragraph', 'page', 'chapter' and 'book' when examining the structure of a work of literature. Except in unusual circumstances, structure has nothing to do with content. In music we have terms that serve a similar function; so, for example, ' note ', ' bar ', ' line ', ' section ', ' movement ' and ' score '. A composer creates a musical work, what we call a score, which has various structural elements. The Hexachord The solmisation syllables were applied to sequences of six notes (e.g. C - D - E - F - G - A) called hexachords (Greek: hexa = six, chorde = string or note). There are three hexachords starting on the notes g, c and f. The note letter names of the upward scale from gamma ut then read gamma, A, B, c, d, e, f, g, a, b, c', d', e', f', g', a', b', c'', d'', e'' As it happens, middle C, lies just about in the middle of the standard piano keyboard and for this reason most pianists assume that the description 'middle' is a reference to this accident of piano manufacture. The term 'middle' is applied only to the note c and not to the register within which it lies. 4
5 Naming the Octaves The convention for naming octaves is fairly arbitrary but can be useful when considering how chords, that is groups of notes played together, sound. Keeping the notes well spread apart significantly strengthens the effect of a chord. Each note C is said to be in a different register. 5
6 2. Notes & Rests Duration Where the vertical position of a note on a staff or stave determines its pitch, its relative time value or duration is denoted by the particular sign chosen to represent it. This is the essence of proportional or mensural notation, first developed in the eleventh century. The coin & paper money you use to pay for goods & services are good examples of relative value. While in England 100 pence = 1 pound and in the United States the cent and dollar are similarly related (100 cents = 1 dollar) in neither case do you know the 'absolute' value of a currency or of its 'denominations'; for example, how many dollars = 1 pound. So it is with musical 'denominations'. The signs do not give duration in units of time, minutes or seconds. The Anatomy of a Note Sign note (sign) rest (sign) stem flag, hook In music the denomination of 'coinage' is the note or note sign. One can use either term. Each note sign is a construct of three distinct parts. The notehead, whose position on the stave actually sets its pitch, can be open (white) or closed (black). For all notes except the double whole note and whole note, each note has a stem or tail and, for the notes of shorter time-value, a hook or flag, one for a eighth note, two for a sixteenth note, and so on. The stem can rise from the notehead, in which case it lies on the right-hand side of the notehead, or fall from the notehead, in which case it lies on the left hand side of the notehead (see two quarter notes). In either case, the flag or hook lies on the right-hand side of the stem (see two eighth notes). 6
7 Two quarter notes: Two eighth notes: When placed on the stave, a note sign will be placed either on a line or on a space between the lines. The position indicates the relative pitch of the note. If the note lies above or below the stave then it will lie on, above or below auxiliary lines called leger or ledger lines. Notice how the position of the note on the stave generally determines whether the stem 'rises' or 'falls' from the notehead. 7
8 Chart of Note and Rest Signs If the notes are listed in decreasing time value, longest to shortest, each is half the duration of the one immediately before it. The table of 'denominations' below shows the note with the longest duration at the top and that with the shortest duration at the bottom. The Note Sign English American number equal to 1 semibreve 2/1 breve or brevis double-whole 1 semibreve whole note 1/2 minim half note 1/4 crotchet quarter note 1/8 quaver eighth note 1/16 semiquaver sixteenth note 1/32 demisemiquaver thirty-second note 1/64 hemidemisemiquaver sixty-fourth note 1/128 semihemidemisemiquaver or quasihemidemisemiquaver one hundred and twentyeighth note 8
9 Rest Rest number equal to 1 semibreve English American 2/1 breve rest double-whole rest 1 semibreve rest whole rest 1/2 minim rest half rest 1/4 crotchet rest quarter rest 1/8 quaver rest eighth rest 1/16 semiquaver rest sixteenth rest 1/32 demisemiquaver rest thirty-second rest 1/64 hemidemisemiquaver rest sixty-fourth rest 1/128 semihemidemisemiquaver rest one hundred and twentyeighth rest 9
10 Each line in the example below is a single bar, with the same total time value of notes as every other line. Each line in the example below is a single bar, with the same total time value of rests as every other line. 10
11 Dotting and Double-Dotting Dotted half note: A dot, placed to the immediate right of the notehead, increases its time-value by half; thus a half note (which is equivalent to two quarter notes) followed by a dot (which in this case is equivalent to a further quarter note) is equivalent to three quarter notes, while a dotted quarter note is equivalent to three eighth notes and a dotted eighth note is equivalent to three sixteenth notes. If the notehead is located in a space, the dot is placed in that same space. If the notehead is on a line, the dot is placed in the space just above the line. Exceptions sometimes have to be made if several dotted notes share a single stem. A dot placed after a rest or note is called an augmentation dot. Double-Dotted half note: A second dot, placed to the immediate right of the first dot, increases the original undotted time-value by a further quarter. Another way of thinking about the second dot is that it adds the note equivalent to half the note added by the first dot. So, for example, a half note (equivalent to four eighth notes) followed by one dot (equivalent to two eighth notes) followed by a second dot (equivalent to one eighth note) is equivalent, in total, to seven eighth notes. A triple-dotted note is a note with three dots written after it; its duration is 1 7/8 times (1 + 1/2 + 1/4 + 1/8) its basic note value. Use of a triple-dotted note value is not common in the Baroque and Classical periods, but quite common in the music of Richard Wagner and Anton Bruckner, especially in their brass parts Dots after rests increase their time-value in the same way as dots after notes. 11
12 Beams and Beaming When notes with flags lie together in groups they are often linked by one or more lines called beams. The number of beams reflect the number of flags each would have had when an individual note. The beam that is furthest from the noteheads, and remains unbroken, and connects a group of notes is called a primary beam. Any beam other than than the primary beam is a secondary beam and may be broken, often dividing the grouping into smaller units for easier reading. a group of four sixteenth notes, first unbeamed and then beamed: a group of two eighth notes, first unbeamed and then beamed: a group of one eighth note and two sixteenth notes, first unbeamed and then beamed: Notice the use of primary and secondary beams in this example Notice how the beaming reflects the time value of each note. Where a beam does not join a group of notes, for example a beam joining a dotted eighth note to a sixteenth note, the secondary beam attached to the sixteenth note is called a fractional beam. 12
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