Music Theory for Dummies A Scholastic Bowl Presentation By: Bekah

Music Notes In music, there are 7 base notes. A, B, C, D, E, F, G These notes can have flats or sharps. These are known as accidentals. A flat is a note that is a half step lower. A-A♭ A sharp is a note that is a half step higher. A-A#

Music Notes

Reading G/Treble Clef Spaces- FACE Lines-EGBDF Every Good Boy Does Fine Treble Clef is the highest clef. When reading in any clef the notes above and below the staff are called ledger lines Reading G/Treble Clef

Reading C Clef in Alto Position Lines- FACEG Spaces-GBDF Gummy Bears Don’t Fly Alto Clef is in between Bass Clef and Treble Clef. It is considered the easiest clef to learn because it is the only movable clef. Where the chick is on the music decides what clef it is in. . If you move the chick up one you have tenor clef. Reading C Clef in Alto Position

Reading F/Bass Clef Lines-GBDFA Spaces-ACEGB Gummy Bears Don’t Fly Anytime Spaces-ACEGB All Cows Eat Grass Burp Reading F/Bass Clef

Key Signatures Any of several combinations of sharps or flats after the clef at the beginning of each staff indicating the key of a composition. Examples: The key of D has 2#’s and 0♭’s The key of C has zero accidentals. The Circle of Fifths is commonly used to remember the key signatures.

Circle of Fifths As it is names, the circle of fifths go up and down five notes. If you go down five notes from C you reach F. The Key of F has one flat. If you count up five from C you reach G. The key of G has 1 sharp.

Dynamics In music, dynamics means how loud or quiet the music is.

Time Signatures The time signature explains how many beats in a measure and how many counts each note is given. The top number in a time signature tells how many beats per measure The bottom number tells you what note value consists of 1 beat.

Time Signatures

Extras A slur connects two notes of different pitches. A tie connects two notes of the same pitch. Staccato notes are played shorted and faster. Legato notes are played swiftly and connected; the opposite of staccato. The tension of the 230-odd strings in a grand piano exert a combined force of 20 tons on the cast iron frame. A single violin is made from over 70 individual pieces of wood.

2 Bases? 2 VIOLINS In a string quartet, there are usually 1 Viola 1 Cello

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Musical Theatre for Dummies

Musical Theatre A musical is very different from play. A play has no singing or dancing. The only component is acting. In a musical, there is singing, dancing, and acting. For practice trivia go to http://www.funtrivia.com/quizzes/humanities/song_mixture/name_t he_musical.html

Edvard Grieg – Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 46: Morning Mood Ludwig van Beethoven – Symphony No. 5 In C Minor, Op. 67, "Fate": I. Allegro Con Brio Antonio Vivaldi – The Four Seasons, Op. 8, "Spring": Allegro Samuel Barber – Adagio for Strings Richard Wagner – The Valkyrie: Ride of the Valkyries Frédéric Chopin – Nocturne No. 2 In E-Flat Major, Op. 9 Johann Pachelbel – Canon in D major Carl Orff – Carmina Burana: O Fortuna Johann Sebastian Bach – Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major, BWV 1068: Air Gustav Holst – The Planets, Op. 32: Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity Claude Debussy – Suite bergamasque, L 75: Clair de Lune Giuseppe Verdi – Nabucco: Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves (Va', Pensiero, Sull'ali Dorate) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major, K. 467: II. Andante Johann Sebastian Bach – Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G major, BWV 1048: Allegro Jules Massenet – Thaïs: Meditation Antonín Dvořák – Symphony No. 9 In E Minor, Op. 95, "From the New World": II. Largo Johann Strauss II – On the Beautiful Blue Danube, Op. 314 Johannes Brahms – Hungarian Dance No. 5 In G Minor Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – Swan Lake Suite, Op. 20: Scene Erik Satie – Gymnopédie No. 1 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Requiem, K. 626: Lacrimosa Dies Illa Ludwig van Beethoven – Bagatelle In A Minor, Wo Op. 59, "Für Elise" Edward Elgar – Pomp and Circumstance, Op. 39: Land of Hope and Glory Georges Bizet – Carmen Suite No. 2: Habanera Ludwig van Beethoven – Symphony No. 9 In D Minor, Op. 125, "Choral": Ode an Die Freude Jacques Offenbach – The Tales of Hoffmann: Barcarolle Remo Giazotto – Adagio In G Minor for Strings and Organ (after T. Albinoni) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Serenade No. 13 In G Major, K. 525, "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik": I. Allegro Gioachino Rossini – The Barber of Seville: Overture Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano Sonata No. 14 In C-Sharp Minor, Op. 27:2, "Moonlight Sonata": Adagio Sostenuto Bedřich Smetana – Má Vlast (My Fatherland): Vltava (The Moldau River) Luigi Boccherini – String Quintet In e Major, Op. 13: Minuet (Mislabeled – Should be Op. 11, No. 5 (G 275): Minuet) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Symphony No. 40 In G Minor, K. 550: I. Allegro Molto Antonín Dvořák – Slavonic Dance No. 2, Op. 72 Charles Gounod – Ave Maria (after J.S. Bach) Jean Sibelius – Finlandia, Op. 26 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Piano Sonata No. 11 In A Major, K. 331: Rondo: Alla Turca Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – The Magic Flute, K. 620: Overture George Frideric Handel – The Messiah, HWV 56: Hallelujah Chorus Edvard Grieg – Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 46: In the Hall of the Mountain King Gabriel Fauré – Pavane Johann Sebastian Bach – Double Concerto In D Minor for Two Violins, BWV 1043: Vivace Georges Bizet – L'Arlesienne Suite No. 1: Prelude Johann Strauss I – Radetzky March, Op. 228 Ludwig van Beethoven – Egmont, Op. 84: Overture Stanley Myers – Cavatina Arcangelo Corelli – Concerto Grosso No. 8 in G Minor, Op. 6: "Christmas Concerto": Allegro Sergei Rachmaninoff – Vocalise, Op. 34 Giuseppe Verdi – Messa Da Requiem: Dies Irae – Tuba Mirum Gustav Mahler – Symphony No. 5: Adagietto