Grammar of Music

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What to study before Dynamics

The art of grading loudness in performance, from ppp to fff and the changes between them. 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. The staff

    Five lines and four spaces, numbered upward, where the height of a sign means the height of a sound.

    Level 1lesson Five lines and a starting point (Reading music)

  4. Dynamics

    The art of grading loudness in performance, from ppp to fff and the changes between them.

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