Music Reflection

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Music Reflection

• Write a short paragraph about the music that
  you hear
• Salvation is Created
• Composer Pavel Tschesnokov
• Genre Sacred Choral Music
• Period 20th Century (1912)

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Music History

• Theory Review

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Pitch

• Music is written on a set of 5 lines and 4 spaces
  called a staff.
• Notes may be placed on a line or a space.

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Pitch

• A staff is broken up by measures or bars.
• Bar-lines divide up the measures
• A double bar-line indicates the end of a piece of
  music.

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Pitch

• The Treble Clef (g clef) High Pitched
• The Bass Clef (f clef) Low Pitched

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Pitch

• The Musical Alphabet
• A B C D E F G
• The lines and spaces on a staff represent a
  different letter of the music alphabet depending
  on the clef.

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Pitch

• Notes in the Treble Clef
• F
• E
• D
• C
• B
• A
• G
• F
• E

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Pitch

• Notes in the Bass Clef
• A
• G
• F
• E
• D
• C
• B
• A
• G

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Pitch

• We can add Ledger Lines to a staff to extend
  the amount of notes that we can write. They can
  be written in bass and treble clef Ledger
  Lines

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Pitch

• The Grand Staff
• A pianist uses a grand staff to read music. The
  notes on the top staff are played with the right
  hand and the notes on the bottom are played with
  the left.
• Middle C divides the grand staff

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Pitch

• Complete Exercises
• 1.1 1.2

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Tones and SemitonesAccidentals

• A semitone is a measurement of distance between
  two pitches. All instruments play semitones.
• The distance from one key to the very next on a
  keyboard is a semitone.

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Tones and SemitonesAccidentals

• Semi Half
• The distance between two adjacent keys on the
  keyboard is a semitone. Therefore, there are two
  semitones in a tone.

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Tones and SemitonesAccidentals

• Accidentals are signs that alter the sound of a
  pitch.

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Tones and SemitonesAccidentals

• The black key immediately to the right of C is C
  sharp
• The black key immediately to the left of D is D
  flat

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Tones and SemitonesAccidentals

• Notice each black key has two names depending on
  whether it is being related to the white key to
  the left or right. This is called Enharmonics

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Tones and Semitones Accidentals

• A Natural is an accidental that cancels the
  previous sharp or flat.
• An accidental remains in effect until it is
  canceled by a natural sign.
• A Bar-line can also cancels an accidental.

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Tones and SemitonesAccidentals

• Homework
• Complete Exercise 2.1