PART I RHYTHM IN MUSIC
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, ight to the imagination, and li!e to ever"thing# $Plato
Rhythm is Rhythm is the pattern or flow of sound through time in musical piece. There is also rhythm in the way you do your daily activities, can come from musical instruments. It considered as the “heartbeat of music.” It gives life to melodious compositions.
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N'T(S AN) R(STS What do you think songs are made of? When you read a musical piece, perhaps you ask yourself how you can sing or play the piece or maybe you want to interpret it. owever, before you can interpret a musical piece correctly, you must first learn the different types of notes and rest and what they mean. Musical note is as symbol that designates the duration and pitch of a sound while musical rest designates the duration of a silence or the absence of sound. ! note is composed of three parts, namely the stem, the hook , flag or tail " and the head . The head may be shaded or unshaded. It also may or may not have stem and a hook, flag or tail.
! note represent sounds in music. #ach note has a distinct sound and value while rest represents silence in music.
The value of a note or rest may be increased by adding a dot after it. ! dot adds one$half of the value of the note or rest.
! dotted note is worth the full value of the original note plus another half of its value. %tudy these e&les.
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If you notice, when you hear or sing a song you usually respond to it through body movements like a fingers nodding your or swaying your body. What is in music that makes your body move? 0ead on to find out. Meter refers to the repetitive arrangement of strong and weak pulses or beats in a musical composition. The word meter comes from the 1reek word metron, which means “measure”. 2eter is notated at the beginning of a composition with a time signature. The time signature is written with two numbers, one above the other. 2eter also refers to the repetitive arrangement of strong and weak pulses or beats in music.
If the counting of the beats is by twos, the meter is called duple:
If the counting of the beats is by threes, the meter is called triple:
If the counting of the beats is by fours, the meter is called quadruple:
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%esson TIM( SI.NATUR( ! song may have fast, moderate, or slow beat or rhythm, depending on the time signature. In this lesson you will learn about how time signature effects a
musical composition. 4ou will also get to know how to conduct the three simple time signatures in music. Time signature is a fraction$like number written at the beginning of a musical composition. The upper number tells the number of beats or pulses in each measure. The lower number tells the kind of note that receives one beat. Three simple time signatures;
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There are two beats in a measure. The lower the number 567 tells that the note that receives one beat is a 8uarter note. This measure uses duple meter. This means that there are two beats in every measure and accented or strong beat is found on the first beat each measure.
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There are four beats in a measure. The lower the number 567 tells that the note that receives one beat is a 8uarter note. This measure uses 8uadruple meter. This means that there are four beats in every measure and accented or strong beat is found on the first count of the measure. This time signature is also known as the common time signature. %ometimes the / is placed at the beginning of the staff to represent this time signature.
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