Grammar of Music

Path

What to study before Score navigation

Repeats, endings, da capo and coda: the marks that say in what order the music is read. 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. Notes and semitones

    The seven letter names, the accidentals that alter them, and the semitone as the system's smallest step.

    Level 0lesson Notes have names, and the names have a rule (First steps in theory)

  2. Staff notation

    Five lines, four spaces, and a clef that decides which pitch each position stands for.

    Level 0lesson Five lines and a starting point (Reading music)

  3. Rhythm and meter

    Note values, augmentation dots, tuplets, and the division of time into simple and compound meters.

    Level 0has practicelesson Counting time (First steps in theory)

  4. Score navigation

    Repeats, endings, da capo and coda: the marks that say in what order the music is read.

    Level 2lesson The order of the page (Reading music)