Pg 8 to 20 CGP Flashcards
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What do the clef’s tell you?
How high or low to play the notes
What does the time signature tell you?
How many beats there are in a bar
What’s a key signature?
It determines what key you play in and it is shown by either sharps or flats
What’s pitch?
Notes that are higher up on the stave have a higher pitch and lower notes have a lower pitch. Pitch is how high the notes are
What is a chord?
More than one note. played together makes a chord.
What’s a double bar line?
It shows that you have gotten to the end of the piece
What is the treble clef used for?
- It is used for higher pitched melody instruments like flutes
- It is also used for soprano and alto voices and music for them is on the treble cleff
What is the bass clef used for?
- It is used for lower pitched instruments like cello, trombone
- It is also used for bass voices
What is this clef called and what is it used for?
- This is the vocal tenor clef and it is for tenor voices and lead guitar
- Each note in the vocal tenor clef is the exact same note as it is in the treble clef except it is one octave lower
What is this cleff called and what does it do?
- It is called the C clef
- It has a middle point which is the middle C. When it is on the middle line of the stave, it is the alto clef used for viola parts
- When the middle c is on the 4th line up, it is the tenor clef for higher notes like cellos
What is this and what does it do?
- It is a sharp
- You play the note a semitone higher
- A double sharp makes the note two semitones higher
What are enharmonic equivalents?
When two notes sound the same but have different names like C## and D
What is this?
- It is a flat
- You play it one semitone lower
- A double flat makes a note two semitones lower
What are key signatures?
- Sharps or flats at the start of the piece tell you the key signature
- They make the notes all the way through the piece of music
- Sharps and flats on individual notes are called accidentals and once it appears in a bar you have to keep it until the rest of the bar or a natural
What is a natural?
It cancels out the sharp or flat
What is a strong beat?
- The first beat of each bar and they come at regular intervals
What does time signature show?
- The top number tells how many beats there are in a bar
- The bottom number tells you how long each beat is
Give examples of time signatures
- 3/2 - 2 means each beat is 1 minim long and there are three beats in a bar
- 3/4 means each beat is 1 crochet long
What is anacrusis?
when not all of the pieces start on the first beat of the bar and they start on an unaccented beat
What is simple time
- They have 2, 3 or 4 as their top number
- When counting the beats you count every beat
What is compound time for?
- Copounds have 6,9,12 as their top numbers, you can divide their top number by three
- You just count the main beats
What is a metre and give examples
- The patterns the beat make is a metre. There are three types:
- Regular- strong beats make the same pattern all the way
- Irregular -there could be five beats in one bar or 7 beats in a bar
- Free - music with no particular metre
What is hemiola?
Rythmic device to create contrast within a piece, eg. in music written in duple metre is temporarily accented to make it feel like it’s in a triple metre
What is largo and the bpm?
Broad and slow
40-60
