Part 2 · Music Notation: The Written Language of Music

Example 2.1

Note values against a steady beat

What you hear

One bar each at 60 BPM over a soft pulse on C3: a whole note, two half notes, four quarter notes, eight eighth notes, sixteen sixteenth notes (C5)

Every example in Part 2

• Example 2.1Note values against a steady beat
• Example 2.2A bar of notes and rests, counted
• Example 2.3One bar at 60 BPM, then at 120 BPM
• Example 2.4The treble staff, line by line and space by space
• Example 2.5The bass staff, line by line and space by space
• Example 2.6Across the grand staff through middle C
• Example 2.7Ledger lines below and above the treble staff
• Example 2.8One note natural, sharp, flat and natural again
• Example 2.9One melody in C, G and F major
• Example 2.10A phrase as written, then 8va, then 8vb
• Example 2.11Dynamics pp to fff; staccato, accent and tenuto
• Example 2.12The Reading Lab, with its repeat