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Grade 1 Notes

This document provides information about musical notation and terminology. It defines scales including the F major and G major scales. It explains beat grouping in time signatures of 4/4 and 3/4. It also defines various musical markings and terms such as dynamic markings, articulation marks, tempo markings, intervals, and other signs. It provides extra notes about major scales, tonic triads, octaves, dotted notes, and musical concepts like chords, the circle of fifths, and ostinatos.

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Grade 1 Notes

This document provides information about musical notation and terminology. It defines scales including the F major and G major scales. It explains beat grouping in time signatures of 4/4 and 3/4. It also defines various musical markings and terms such as dynamic markings, articulation marks, tempo markings, intervals, and other signs. It provides extra notes about major scales, tonic triads, octaves, dotted notes, and musical concepts like chords, the circle of fifths, and ostinatos.

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SCALES

F major scale

G major scale
Grouping notes
- In 4/4
o Always remember that the 2nd and 3rd beat cannot be beamed together!
o Example of 2nd and 3rd beat quavers:

o We can beam the 1st and 2nd beats:

o We can group the 1st and 2nd or 3rd and 4th beats together as a minim rest:

o But NOT the 2nd and 3rd beats!


- In 3/4
o We can group ALL the quavers together

o EVEN the 2nd and 3rd beat!

o But for rests we NEVER use a minim rest in ¾! Always crotchet rests!

Dynamic markings – written BELOW the music
How loud of soft to play -

pianissimo (pp) – very soft
piano (p) –soft
mezzo piano (mp) – medium soft
mezzo forte (mf) – medium loud
forte (f) – loud
fortissimo (ff) – very loud
crescendo (cresc. or ) getting gradually louder
diminuendo (dim. or ) getting gradually softer


Articulation marks – written close to the note-heads
How to play the notes

Accent – play with an accent
legato – play smoothly
slur – play the marked notes smoothly
staccato – play these notes detached, short and crisp

Tempo marks – put above the music at the beginning of the piece
what speed to play the music
Andante – at a walking pace
Allegro – fast
Moderato – at a moderate pace
ritenuto (rit.) – getting slower


Other signs/words


(repeat marks) – repeat the section or repeat from the beginning of the piece

mezzo – half


Check stems:




Remember that for ANY EMPTY bar, in ANY time signature, we always use a semibreve rest




Tones and semitones: Always draw the piano!

cancels any previous sign




raises the pitch of the note by a semitone


lowers the pitch of the note by a semitone



Intervals


Unison 2nd 3rd 4th 5th Octave



EXTRA NOTES
In a major scale, the semitones are between the 3rd & 4th and 7th & 8th degrees.

The tonic triad is a chord made up of the 1st, 3rd and 5th degrees of the scale

The doh and the tonic are the FIRST note of the scale

A dot after a note means: that half its value again is added to its length.

A double barline is only used at the end of a piece.

A beam is a thick line joining quavers together.

A chord is two or more notes played at the same time

The circle of 5ths is a map of keys used in music

The top number of a time signature shows the number of beats in a bar.
The bottom number of a time signature shows the type of beats in a bar.

An ostinato is a pattern of nots that repeats over and over again.


Remember that we always write:
- Roman numerals – I – below the note
- Chord symbols – C / F / G – above the note

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