![]() If there are two consecutive eighth notes after each other, they are connected by a beam. Generally, we avoid writing more than two voices on one staff, but sometimes you might see up to four voices on one staff.Ī quarter note has a black head and stem, and an eighth note has a stem with a tail. If a third voice appears, a middle voice, well… we must somehow manage. ![]() ![]() When we write two parts on one staff, the upper voice has stems always directed upwards (although it is usually over the third line!) and the bottom voice has stems always directed downwards. But this situation only occurs in one-part music. The stems are directed upwards if the notes are below the third line of the staff, and downwards if the notes are written from the third line upwards. If the stem is directed upwards, it is written on the right side of the head, and if down, we write the stem on the left. The half note also includes a vertical line, called a stem. Because the note is not filled, we call it white. The whole note is a hollow oval, called the head. In slow tempos, you can play five hundred and twelfth notes, maybe even a thousand and twenty fourth notes, but these values are never used because the notes would be so complex that they would be illegible. Quarter notes are divided into eighth notes, eighth notes into sixteenth notes, and so on. Thus, a whole note lasts as much as two half-notes, and one half note - two quarter notes. The duration of the notes is modified by a dot, triplet, fermata, and sometimes an arc. At a moderate pace, a half-note lasts a second, a quarter note - half a second, which gives 120 quarter notes per minute. But why “relative”? Because the longer one lasts as long as two shorter ones, but how much exactly - we don’t know. The relative duration of the sound depends on the shape of the note: a longer note is divided into two shorter ones, these two notes into four, and so on. The key is essential to deciphering the musical code. The same note can be read differently depending on what key appears in front of it. Without the key, we don’t know what the pitch of the notes on the staff is. It is very important to keep in mind the entire previous sentence. The pitch of the sound is read from the position of the head of the note on the staff relative to the key. ![]() Strictly speaking, notes are marks placed on the staff, which provide information about the pitch and duration of the sound. ![]()
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