MUSIC 2F03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Woodwind Instrument, Counterpoint, Musical Note

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Music
• Course: MUSIC 2F03
• Professor: Simon Wood

Document Summary

Part 1: exploring film and music, chapter 3: elements of music. 1: knowledge of the note names and rhythmic values, ability to play notes on a musical instrument while looking at such notation. Music has three properties: pitch, duration, colour. Music notation as a graph: pitch is the vertical axis, duration is the horizontal. Pitch: how high or low a musical note is. Staff: has 5 horizontal lines: higher the note on the staff, higher the pitch. Clef sign: important symbol for the pitch: designates pitches on the staff, and tells us the basic range (treble clef = high range, bass clef = lower range) Two adjacent notes are the same pitch, closer together or have a wide interval between them. Don"t need to know exact duration of each note, you can track music: simply following note by note. Skip symbols of rest, be aware of curved line connecting identical pitch (tie: count beats.