Rhythmic Notation

Unit 1: Feel The Pulse

Lessons 1-4

The 5 Elements of Music

Rhythm

Melody

Harmony

Timbre

Form

Rhythm

The Pulse/Beat

The heartbeat of music. It can be fast or slow but it remains steady. Musicians use a device called a Metronome to help keep the beat at a specific speed(tempo) while singing or playing.

Rhythm

Grouping of musical sounds in time by means of stress and duration. It creates patterns of long and short sounds.

Notes

Notation is the use of written symbols to represent musical sounds in time. Keep the following principles in mind:

• Different types of notes have different parts: note head, stem and flag .
• Note heads on whole notes and half notes are never filled in.
• Whole notes, half notes and quarter notes do not have flags

Dividing The Beats

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Rests

Silences in music are called Rests. Rest have the same relationship to each other as other notes do.

Comparison

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Reading and Performing Rhythms

Reading and Performing Rhythms The Takadimi System

Dotes and Ties

How do musicains extend the duration of note and rests.Lesson 5

Dotes

In music, a dot (•) adds one-half of the value of the note or rest to the note or rest.

Ties

A tie is a curved line connecting two or more notes of the same pitch indicating that the durational values of the notes are to be added together. For example, if a half note is tied to a quarter note, then the note is held for three beats.

What Time Is It?

Lesson 6

What is a Meter?Meter is a pattern of strong and weak beats. Certain styles of music have specific meters. Types of Meter?Quadruple (4)Triple (3)Duple (2)

Time Signatures

Time Signatures

There are several possibilities for the bottom: 1= Whole Note 2= Half Note 4= Quarter note 8= Eighth Note 16= Sixteenth Note

Turn Up the Volume?

Dynamics

Cresendo

Decrescendo

Speed it up a Little!

Tempo

Accelerando, stringendo – gradually get faster Ritard, ritardando, rallentando – gradually get slowerTempo rubato (stolen time)-the performer keeps a relatively steady beat with the left hand (bass notes), while speeding up and slowing down with the right hand (melody notes).