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Category Archive: How to Read Music

Music Notation: Dynamic Markings

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Dynamics (how loudly or softly something is played) is a huge component of the expressive power of music…

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2010-06-02 How to Read Music

Music Notation: Articulations

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Articulations are essential ingredients of any artistic musical interpretation…

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2010-06-02 How to Read Music

Music Notation: Time Signatures

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The Time Signature, written immediately after the key signature, is a pattern of numbers that looks like a fraction that tells you two things…

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2010-06-02 How to Read Music

How to Read Music: Key Signatures

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The Key Signature is a pattern of sharps or flats (or none at all) written at the very beginning of a piece of music, immediately after the clef…

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2010-06-02 How to Read Music

Music Notation: Note & Rest Durations

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Commonly-used note and rest durations for your information…

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2010-06-02 How to Read Music

Music Notation: Accidentals (Sharps, Flats, & Naturals)

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Let’s explore the way accidentals work by applying them to the note G above middle C…

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2010-06-02 How to Read Music

Music Notation: Lines & Spaces

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The notes are named by using a symbols called clefs and a simple pattern of horizontal lines and spaces as follows…

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2010-06-02 How to Read Music

Music Notation: Clefs (G-Clef & F-Clef)

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The Grand Staff consists of an upper staff and a lower staff…

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2010-06-02 How to Read Music

Music Notation: The Grand Staff

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Piano music is usually written using something called The Grand Staff…

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2010-06-02 How to Read Music

How to Read Music: The Musical Way

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Let’s explore the variety of ways that an expert musician might perceive and conceive of the music…

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2010-06-01 How to Read Music

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