Studied by 1 personMeter
________: the stresses of strong and weak beats.
Rhythmic values
________: the duration of pitches.
Beams
________ facilitate note reading and counting by grouping notes into units reflecting the beat.
Time signature
________: indicates the recurrent grouping of accented and unaccented beats.
Time
the duration of sounds or silences
Beat
the regularity of a pulse
Tempo
the rate of speed of the beat
Rhythmic values
the duration of pitches
In music, the first beat of each measure
is normally the strongest and is given an accent (>).
Metric accent:
the repeating pattern of strong beats followed by weaker beats
When the top number of the time signature is a 2, 3, or 4, this is called
a simple meter.
In a simple meter, the pulse note is
divided into two or four equal parts.
The pitches of a melodic line will sound differently when
they are written in different meters
The time signature is found
at the beginning of a piece of music just after the clef sign (not at the beginning of every staff of music).
Vertical lines called bar lines are placed
at the end of each grouping of beats and separate the groups into measures.
A double bar is placed
at the end of a section of music (not at the end of every staff).
The end of a piece is indicated by
a final double bar
The lower number of the time signature indicates
the type of note that receives one beat (sometimes called the pulse note), and subsequently determines the number of beats that each note receives.
When the lower number of the time signature is 4,
the quarter note is the pulse note and receives one count.
Stems with flags can be added only to
note heads that are filled in
Single eighth notes are drawn
with a stem and one flag
Single sixteenth notes have
a stem and two flags
Several adjacent eighth or sixteenth notes frequently are
linked together with thick, straight lines called beams.
Because beams replace flags, eighth notes have
one beam and sixteenth notes are drawn with two beams.
Beams facilitate note reading and counting by
grouping notes into units reflecting the beat.
In older editions of vocal music it was common to use
individual notes with flags, instead of beams, to match each syllable of the lyrics with a specific pitch; this practice is not in use today.
When beaming groups of notes together, the direction of the stems will be determined by
the placement on the staff of the majority of the notes.
Beginning with the whole note,
each note divides into two smaller parts.
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