Music Notation

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Music Notation

• The beginnings of notation

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Hebrew Notation

• Psalms of the New Testament
• Symbols above and below the words Musical tones

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Chinese Notations

• Very Musical
• Five tones
• The tones were indicated by placing a symbol by
  the word
• The Musical symbols are on the right the lyrics
  are on the left.
• Http//netpointer.com/sunnyl/cmmain.htm

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Greek Notation

• Vocal Music used three symbols that indicated
  three syllable accents
• Grave (over the word the 2nd line)-drop the
  pitch
• Acute (over the word are)-raise the pitch
• Circumflex (over the word ones-raise then
  drop the pitch
• http//www.oeaw.ac.at/kal/agm/main.htm

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Gregorian Chant

• Neumes
• http//netaxs.com/rmk/Chant/index.html

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Early Staves
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Eleven-Line Great Staff

• Middle Ages
• Eleven Lines
• Middle line eliminated
• G and F Cleff

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Renaissance Notation

• Semibrevis-White, diamond-shaped notewhole note
• Minim-half note
• Semiminim-quarater note
• Fusa-eighth note
• Semifusa-sixteenth note
• http//www.kites.org/kitesandmusic/facsimil.htm

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Present Day Notation

• Rests
• Whole Rest
• Half Rest
• Quarter Rest
• Eighth Rest
• Sixteened Rest

• Notes
• Whole Note
• Half Note
• Quarter Note
• Eighth Note
• Sixteenth Note

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Modern Notation
John Cage My favorite music is the music I
havent yet heard. I dont hear the music I
write. I write in order to hear the music I
havent yet heard. http//www.obsolete.com/kill/1
20_v1/cage/cage.html
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WVIGOs

• Music
• CV.20 compare choral music with other arts from
  the same historical period, style culture
• CV.16 compare choral music with other arts from
  the same historical period, style or culture

• Mathematics
• A2.19 Solve problems using non-routine strategies
• A1.6 Analyze a given set of data for the
  existence of a pattern

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Bibliography

• Reid, William. Musical Notation. Portland, MA,
  1978
• Microsoft Office Clip Art
• Sound File Clips
• http//www.0wned.org/pavlos/epes_n..wav
• http//www.oeaw.ac.at/kal/agm/dam21.wav