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Music Theory for Musicians and Normal People
by Toby W. Rush This page includes links to each of the individual Music Theory pages I've created in PDF form. These pages are available for free under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND license. This collection is a work in progress, but if you would prefer, you can download all the current pages as a single PDF. If this makes you excited enough that you'd like to purchase a theory-related shirt, hat, bag, button or sticker, visit my T-shirts And Other Stuff page. Music Theory Fundamentals Notation: PitchHow pitch — the "highness" or "lowness" of a sound — is notated on the musical staff. Notation: RhythmOur bizarre (yet universally accepted) method of notating rhythm. Notation: MeterThe concept of "the beat" and how it is notated in music. BeamingNobody knows beaming like Sparky knows beaming. The Major ScaleIntroducing the major scale, one of the most common "palettes" of music composition. Key SignaturesNot the kind you sign your credit card receipt with, though I suppose you could try it.
Orchestration
Orchestration is the study or practice of writing music for an orchestra (or, more loosely, for any musical ensemble) or of adapting for an orchestra music composed for another medium. Only gradually over the course of music history did orchestration come to be regarded as a compositional art in itself. Orchestration as practice[edit] The term orchestration in its specific sense refers to the way instruments are used to portray any musical aspect such as melody or harmony. Additionally in orchestration, notes may be placed into another register (such as transposed down two octaves for the basses), doubled (both in the same and different octaves), and altered with various levels of dynamics. The choice of instruments, registers, and dynamics affect the overall tone color. Note that although the above example discussed orchestrating a chord, a melody or even a single note may be orchestrated in this fashion. Orchestration as adaptation[edit] Film orchestration[edit] Process[edit] Payment[edit]
DIY: Silent Mini Keyboards
I recently decided that I wanted to own a set of silent keyboards for doing introductory piano activities with young children, and for using during group theory activities. Unfortunately, buying a set of silent plastic keyboards (view them at musicinmotion.com) can be a rather large studio expense. Of course, a cheap alternative would be to simply print a picture of a keyboard on paper. But there is something nice about the 3D features of a silent keyboard…so I decided to make my own. I got the idea from Anne Cosby Gaudet’s Piano Discoveries website, where she made similar keyboards with wood and foam. My DIY (Do It Yourself) mini keyboards do not have true-to-life sized keys as the store-bought plastic silent keyboards have. Materials: Instructions: A few quick examples of ways to use silent keyboards: Introducing keyboard topography to groups of preschool / pre-piano students: Ask them to cover the black key group of two with fingers 2 and 3. Joy has blogged 936 posts here. Like this:
Meter (music)
Metric levels: beat level shown in middle with division levels above and multiple levels below. Main article: Duple meter Main article: Triple metre Triple meter is a meter in which each measure is divided into three beats, or a multiple thereof. For example, in the time signature 3/4, each measure contains three (3) quarter-note (4) beats, and with a time signature of 9/8, each measure contains three dotted-quarter beats. Simple meter and compound meter are distinguished by the way the beats are subdivided. Simple triple drum pattern: divides each of three beats into two Play Simple meter or simple time is a meter in which each beat of the measure divides naturally into two (as opposed to three) equal parts. Simple quadruple drum pattern: divides each of four beats into two Play For example, in the time signature 3/4, each measure contains three crotchet (quarter note) beats, and each of those beats divides into two quavers (eighth notes), making it a simple meter. Play Play Play : Play Play ).
Elements of Music
Elements of Music Pitch – register (high or low); Organization of pitches with a pattern of intervals between them creates scales; Words we might use to describe scales: major/minor, chromatic, gapped, pentatonic. Rhythm – the time element of music. A specific rhythm is a specific pattern in time; we usually hear these in relation to a steady pulse, and mentally organize this pulse or tempo into meter (sometimes called a "time signature"). Meter organizes beats into groups, usually of two or three; beats can be divided into small units usually 2, 3 or 4 subdivisions Melody, or musical line, is a combination of pitch and rhythm (some say "duration"). Timbre – sound quality or tone color; timbre is the characteristic that allows us to distinguish between one instrument and another, and the difference between vowel sounds (for example, long "a" or "ee"). Dynamics – loud or soft. Texture – monophonic (one voice or line), METER and examples
Cue note
An example of cue notes. This example from the 2nd horn part Overture to Der Freischütz contains cue notes showing the 4th and 3rd horn parts, in order to aid proper entrance. Play "Cue notes may be given as guidance only, to assist a performer's entrance after numerous measures of rest.... See also[edit] Cue sheet Sources[edit]
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