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Find each of the terms in the music below. Click the term to have it highlight on the music. |
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Review: The staff, clefs, and notes were presented in the letter name lesson.
New: A measure (bar) helps organize the notes in time, and a barline marks the separation between measures. Future lessons will explain measures and barlines.
Music notation moves left to right, just like the text under the notes. Upon reaching the end of the line, move down and continue on the next line reading left to right. Each new line of music is called a system. Systems are numbered down the page. Here we see the first and second system.
When more than one musician perform at the same time, the staves are listed vertically on top of each other. Here, two singers perform together. To show that these staves go together, a line is drawn down the left side of the staves,designating the entire system. Here we see the first and second system of the vocal parts for Laudamus Te, from Vivaldis Gloria.
The most common mistake among new choral singers is to accidentally move to the next line down, rather then the next system down. Singers must also find their part in each new system. In two parts, this is easy, but in larger scores, it can become challenging. Highlighting your part is sometimes helpful.
Here is the same piece with all of the instrument parts included. Try following the soprano 2 part, and notice how finding the part in the second system is more difficult than on the previous page.
Brackets and Braces are used to help organize music in a system. Braces are used to group staves that are played on the same instrument- here the piano plays on both a treble and a bass clef staff. Brackets are used to group similar instruments- here all the string instruments are connected in a bracket. Notice that when staves are in a bracket or a brace, the barlines are connected together.
Usually, choral parts are joined with a bracket. The previous example, Laudamus Te, was originally for solists, which are often not bracketed. This score for Cantate Domino is more typical of choral format. Note that the choral parts are bracketed and the piano part is braced.
In choral music, barlines often extend between staves of the voice parts, but sometimes they do not.
