Grammar of Music

Path

What to study before Instrument families

Strings, winds and percussion, classified by how the sound is produced rather than by material. 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. Instrument families

    Strings, winds and percussion, classified by how the sound is produced rather than by material.

    Level 1