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KEY TERMS FOR GRADE 1 MUSIC THEORY LESSONS

KEY TERMS FOR GRADE 1 MUSIC THEORY LESSONS 

Congratulations to you! With this lesson we kickstart our journey into learning, reading and writing music. Before we go into the few beginner terms I aim to share with you in this post, i'd like us to take a brief look on our learning outcomes for Grade 1 music theory. Note that these learning outcomes covers for bothe ABRSM and Trinity College exams.

LEARNING OUTCOMES:

  • Note values
  • Simple time signature of 2/4, 3/4, 4/4
  • The Stave
  • Clefs
  • Accidentals
  • Major scales of C, F and G.
  • Grouping of Notes and Rests
  • Identifying the key of a piece of music.
  • Tonic triads
  • Introduction to intervals
  • Ostinato
  • Some frequently used performance directions
Yeah, lets keep this in mind as we journey through Grade 1 Music theory in the next few weeks. Back to the business of the day. Below are important terms that we would encounter more frequently as we go into the study of music general. They are a lot of terms in music that deserves to be here but of course, I have streamlined these post to only the terms that we are likely to come across more often in our grade 1 theory class.
 

  • KEY:  In music, a key is the main group of pitches, or notes, that form the basis for composition of piece of music. It is like a group of notes in which the whole music revolves around.

  • NOTES: A musical note are symbols that describes the pitch and duration of a musical sound.

  • SCALE: Is a series of musical notes arranged in ascending and descending order.

  • BAR / MEASURE: Is a unit of musical time containing certain number of beats.

  • REST: Indicates a period of silence in music.

  • TONIC: Is the first note of a scale or key.

  • BEAT: Is a musical pulse that divides time into equal division.

  • SEMITONE: Also known as half step is the shortest distance between two notes. It is the distance in pitch between two adjacent notes on the piano or keyboard.

  • TONE:  Also known as whole step, consists of two semitones, i.e. two half steps.

  • TRIADS: Is a set of three note played simultaneously and are usually stacked in consecutive thirds.

  • CHORD: Is a series of several notes (2 and above) played simultaneously - usually built on sper imposed thirds.

  • ARPEGGIOS: Is a type of broken chord in which the constituent notes of the chord are played individually either in an ascending or descending order.

Like I said earlier, there are a lot of terminologies in music that only one blog post can't cove but these few is likely to appear in our course of study through GRADE 1 Music theory. These are just surface definitions, we may have to discuss more on some of these terms as we progress in the study. Welcome to MUSICK! I'd love hear your feedbacks, any questions, contributions, correction, please drop them in the comment section.

SHALOM!



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