This is a simple explanation of musical notes, their types and values.In standard notation, a single musical sound is written as a note. The two most important things a written piece of music needs to tell you about a note are its pitch and its duration, but we will mostly talk about their duration
The simplest-looking note, with no stems or flags, is a whole note. All other note lengths are defined by how long they last compared to a whole note.
A note that lasts half as long as a whole note is a half note. Half notes are notated with a hollow oval note head and a straight note stem with no flags.2 half notes make a whole note.
A quarter note is 1/4 of a whole note and is represented with a shaded in oval shown above with no flags.4 quarter notes make a whole note.
A eighth note is 1/8 of a whole note and has one flag.
A sixteenth note is 1/16 of a whole note meaning 16 16th notes make a whole note.This note has 2 flags
A thirty second note is 1/32 of a whole note.And has 3 flags.
And a sixty-fourth note is 1/64 of a whole note and so on....(there is also a 128th note)
On this staff, you can see how 1 whole note equals 2 half notes as 4 quarters equal 8 eighth notes.
This picture also shows how all notes can be related to a whole note as fractions.
(Other things i did not go into are dotted notes,notes with out heads,notes with slashes, and many more)
So over all this was made to show how fractions are used in music.
Thursday, December 3, 2009
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