Mapeh

• Refers to a group of countries primarly in Europe and North America
• These countries often share a common heritage rooted in western civilizations including influences from Ancient Greek and Roman Civilizations, the renaissance, the enlightment, and the Industrial revolution
• Staff - made up of five horizontal lines and four spaces
• Clef - Musical symbol placed at the beginning of the staff that determines the letter names of the lines and spaces
• Two main Clefs - Treble Clef and Bass Clef
• Staff - the lines on which musical notation is written
• Bar Line - a line that seperates the staff into measures
• Ledger Line - lines that extend the staff up and down
• Double Bar Line - two lines that either can seperate the sections of music or end the piece
• A single vertical line drawn to the left of multiple staffs creates a grand staff and a system, indicating that the music on all the staffs is to be played/sung at the same time.
• Musical Alphabet uses the letters A-G
• Treble Clef - G Clef

  -The Curl in the beginning of the symbol wraps around the line on the staff
• Bass Clef - F Clef

  -the two dots are centered on the line F
• For the Bass clef

  • The lines are spelled GBDFA
  • Good Boys Do Fine Always
• For the Treble Clef -

  • The lines are spelled EGBDF
  • Every Good Boys Do Fine
• Treble Clef Spaces

  • spelled FACE
  • Father Always Comes Early
• Bass Clef spaces -

  • Spelled ACEG
  • All Cows Eat Grass
• A measure or bar line refers to the vertical lines drawn through the staff to mark off metrical units.
• A double bar-line can consist of two single bar-lines drawn close together, separating two sections within a piece, OR a bar-line followed by a thicker bar-line, indicating the end of a piece.
• A repeat sign looks like the music end, but it has two dots, one above the other, indicating that the section of music that is before is to be repeated. The end repeat sign tells the performer to go back one time to the start repeat sign, or, if there is no start repeat, the beginning of the movement.
• Whole Notes & Whole Rest - 4 beats
• Half Notes & Half Rest - 2 Beats
• Quarter Note & Quarter Rest - 1 beat
• Eighth Note & Eighth Rest - 1/2 beat
• Sixteenth Note & Sixteenth Rest - 1/4 beat