Music: Elementary School: Grades 3, 4 and 5 Quiz - Reading Music (Answers)
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People have been singing and making music for much longer than they have been writing music down. Many musicians learn to play instruments without ever learning to read music. Having a special way to write music down on paper helped musicians to share new songs and was the only way to preserve music before sound recording equipment was invented.
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Music cannot be written in the same way as a poem or story - people have invented a large number of symbols to represent the different sounds possible in music. Understanding these symbols is what we mean by 'reading' music
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Piano music is written on two staves, usually one for the treble clef and one for the bass clef - this is called a Grand Stave
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Names for musical notes are A, B, C, D, E, F, G. After G comes A again! All of these notes can be sharp, flat or natural
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The first two letters 'de' might have given you a clue here
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From bottom to top, the lines on the treble clef stave represent these notes: E, G, B, D, F
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From bottom to top, the lines on the bass clef stave represent these notes: G, B, D, F, A
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Even music includes silence sometimes!
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Half note is a latin word
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A semiquaver is half a eighth note, rather like a semicircle is half a circle
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As long as you know what a repeat sign looks like, you'll know to 'repeat' the music
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