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notes on a scale
Term | Definition |
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quarter note | receives one beat of sound |
quarter rest | receives on beat of silence |
half note | receives two beats of sound |
half rest | receives two beats of silence |
whole note | receives four beats of sound |
whole rest | receives four beats of silence |
eighth note | receives ½ a beat of sound |
eighth rest | receives ½ a beat of silence |
Staff - | five lines and four spaces where music is written |
Measure | the space between the barlines |
Bar line | a symbol that separates the notes into measures |
Key signature - | indicates where the tonic is located |
Double bar line | indicates the end of a song or a section of a song |
Treble clef | indicates notes higher than middle |
Bass clef | indicates notes lower than middle |
Step | - moving from one note to the next without skipping any notes |
Skip - | - moving from one note to the next while skipping only one note |
Leap - | moving from one note to the next while skipping more than one note |
Tonic - | the home note |
Line note | a note that has a line going through the notehead |
Space note | a note that is between two lines on the staff |
Grand staff | - a staff that is created when two staves are joined together |
Time signature | - a symbol that indicates how many beats are in each |