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| signs that indicate how loud or how soft you will play. Degrees of intensity, Examples p=piano=soft; f=forte=loud, etc |
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| how fast or how slow, indicated by terms such as: Andante=walking Tempo; presto=fast; allegro= animated, moving forward, kind of fast |
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| curve line over different kinds of notes, indicates legato playing and also indicates phrasing. |
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| a three note chord comprised of two thirds |
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| distance between sounds , i.e. thirds, seconds, fourths, etc |
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| numbers at the beginning of the score, looks like a fraction. The top number indicates amount of beats per measure, the lower number indicates what notes gets one beat. |
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| are the ones that have 2,3 or four numerator |
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| have 6,9 or 12 for numerator |
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| have 1,5,7,8,10,11 or other numbers |
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| do, re, mi , fa, so , la, si/ti |
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| source for the names of sounds |
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| a hymn in Latin to Saint John. Guido D'Arezzo an Italian monk, took the first opening syllables of each sentence of this hymn to come up with the names for the seven sounds |
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| indicated by a slur, means smoothly connected |
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| indicates momentary absence od sounds, there are seven , one for each note |
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| a major second or two half steps i.e. C to D |
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| shortest distance between two sounds of the same kind, on the same line on in the same space i.e. G to G, C to C, Bb to Bb, etc. |
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| figures , symbols, that are used to write sounds, represent sounds. There are seven kinds. Whole note (4); half note (2), quarter note (1), Eighth note (1/2), sixteenth note (1/4), thirty second (1/8), and sixty fourth (1/16) |
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| raises the sound half step up |
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| lowers the sound half step down |
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| set of flats or sharps at the beginning of the score indication the name of the key or tonality of the piece |
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| short, light touch indicated by dots over or under the notes |
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| follows the formula WWHWWWH |
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dot adds half the value to the note
i.e. dotted half note = 3 beats |
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| a sign indicating hold the note under the fermata longer than its value |
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| pedal to the right of the piano, holds, sustains the sounds. It is also called a sustain pedal |
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