Grammar of Music

Path

What to study before Articulation

Legato, non legato, staccato and portato: how joined or detached one note is from the next. Below, the concepts that come before, in the order in which one explains the next. Signed in, you see the same path minus what you already hold: your path.

  1. Properties of sound

    The four properties every musical sound has at once: duration, intensity, pitch and timbre.

    Level 0

  2. Note

    The seven pitch names, and the sign that puts one of them on the page.

    Level 1

  3. Note values and rests

    The figures that say how long a sound lasts, and the rests that say the same about silence.

    Level 1has practicelesson Counting time (First steps in theory)

  4. Articulation

    Legato, non legato, staccato and portato: how joined or detached one note is from the next.

    Level 1lesson How, and how loudly (Reading music)