A Music staff is a set of 5 horizontal lines equally spaced where the symbols of musical language are written..Lots of these signs, not just notes. But slowly you will be able to master all of them..I will also post a test after a few lessons just so you can test yourself..The answers are in what I wrote. Remember, no cheating!...:)
I will concentrate this time on the symbols of the music language. I wrote last time about notes, the building blocks of symphonies, soundtrack scores, MIDI music, and others...
But there is another symbol you will learn today, and this symbol is the opposite of notes. They are called RESTS. If you are playing an instrument reading a music score, you will play sometimes and other times you don't..These playing and non playing orders are in the staff of the music score..I have not talked yet about the value of notes ( whole, half, quarter, eighths, sixteenths, 32nds, etc...But for a beginner, all you have to worry about yet are the whole, half, and the quarter notes..
At the same time, there are whole rests, half rests, quarter rests..All of these will be on the staff...
There are two kinds of staffs ( or staves ), the F or treble staff and the G or bass staff..The kind is indicated by a symbol: the staff above is marked with the treble symbol..It is trebel staff.
The bass or G staff is marked in the beginning with the bass sign. It is like an inverted C..
In piano playing, you will be using a piece with 2 staves: the treble on top and the bass on the bottom..These two are connected with a symbol called brace. The brace look something like this symbol: { ...only much bigger to join the two staves together and a space between them..
Aside from the treble and bass symbols, the staff is also marked with a vertical short line called a bar...
This drawing is basically like the other drawing. Difference is the presence of the short vertical lines called BARS. At the extreme left are 2 bars: called double bars! The double bar indicate the starting point of a musical passage. Another double bar will indicate the end of the music selection. The area between two single bars is called a measure. A measure is another term to learn in the study of music/reading and writing....
The statement below is an advanced lesson in music writing and reading..If you count ALL THE MEASURES IN A MUSICAL PASSAGE you will always arrive at a number which is divisible by 4! Always!..Do not ask me why now but later on I will explain it..
Example. If you come across a music score of ARE YOU SLEEPING? ARE YOU SLEEPING?..If this is written with the symbol 4/4, count the measures from the beginning to the end. ( From one double bar to the other double bar. ) You will count 8 measures..Some longer selections may have more than 100 measures, but if you count them, you will always come across a number that is divisible by 4..
Well you must know that in music you must always count. Arithmetic, esp. fractions are an integral part of Music... That is why some say ( but there are exceptions to this rule ), if you are good in music, you are always good in Arithmetic and Math..!
Like a story, music is divided into phrases. A musical phrase, to me is like a paragraph in a written story..FOUR MUSICAL PHRASES makes up a Musical Passage..Depending on the complexity of the composition, a musical work can have so many musical passages the same as there are so many paragraphs in a story depending how complex or long the story is....
Until next lesson!!!
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