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Frank J Peter June 2, 2010 How to Read Music

Music Notation: The Grand Staff

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

The Grand Staff is a set of concise and elegant symbols, a unique symbolic language, that communicates an incredible amount of information in a very economical way.

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Such information may include any or all of the following…

The key center and tonality (key signature).
Any changes of key or tonality.
The meter. (time signature)
Which notes to play, when to play them, how long to play them, and in what manner to play them.
When not to play (rests).
Phrasing
Repeats
Pauses
Tempo (how many beats per minutes)
Acceleration or Deceleration of Tempo
Dynamics (loud, soft, changes in loudness)
Fingering
Can you think of some others?

learn more… Music Notation: G-clef & F-clef

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