Grammar of Music

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What to study before Ornaments

Appoggiatura, mordent, trill, turn and the rest: notes added to a real note, taking their time from it. 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. Tone and semitone

    The smallest distance Western music uses, and the whole tone built from two of them.

    Level 1lesson Notes have names, and the names have a rule (First steps in theory)

  4. 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)

  5. Ornaments

    Appoggiatura, mordent, trill, turn and the rest: notes added to a real note, taking their time from it.

    Level 3