Dynamics (how loudly or softly something is played) is a huge component of the expressive power of music…
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Category Archive: How to Read Music
Articulations are essential ingredients of any artistic musical interpretation…
The Time Signature, written immediately after the key signature, is a pattern of numbers that looks like a fraction that tells you two things…
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…
Commonly-used note and rest durations for your information…
Let’s explore the way accidentals work by applying them to the note G above middle C…
The notes are named by using a symbols called clefs and a simple pattern of horizontal lines and spaces as follows…
The Grand Staff consists of an upper staff and a lower staff…
Piano music is usually written using something called The Grand Staff…
Let’s explore the variety of ways that an expert musician might perceive and conceive of the music…