JOSE MARIA COLLEGE

Philippine – Japan Friendship Highway, Sasa, Davao City

College of Teacher Education

MUSIC - Teaching Music in the Elementary Grades

8:00am – 11:00am
Summer 2020

LESSON 2

NOTES AND RESTS

Notes – are characters in music which are used to indicate the musical sound on the staff

Description Name Beat/s

Head note – open Whole Note 4
Stem – open note head with a stem Half note 2
Shaded note head with a stem Quarter note 1
Shaded note head with a stem and a flag Eighth note ½
Shaded note head with a stem and 2 flags Sixteenth note ¼

Rest – silence

Description Name Beat/s

th
Below the 4 line Whole rest 4
rd
Above the 3 line Half rest 2
th nd
4 to 2 line Quarter rest 1
th nd
4 to 2 line Eighth rest ½
th nd
4 to 2 line Sixteenth rest ¼

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 JOSE MARIA COLLEGE
Philippine – Japan Friendship Highway, Sasa, Davao City
College of Teacher Education

MUSIC - Teaching Music in the Elementary Grades

8:00am – 11:00am
Summer 2020

LESSON 2

Dot ( ) - this is equal to half of the beat of the note. O. = 6 beats (4 + 2)

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 JOSE MARIA COLLEGE
Philippine – Japan Friendship Highway, Sasa, Davao City
College of Teacher Education

MUSIC - Teaching Music in the Elementary Grades

8:00am – 11:00am
Summer 2020

LESSON 2

How to write notes on the staff:

1. The stem of a note goes downward at the left of a note

2. The stem goes upward at the right of a note
rd
3. Stem goes downward when the note is on the 3 space or above
4. Stem goes upward when the note is on the second space or below
rd
5. A note on the 3 line should follow the general direction of the notes to which it is a part.
6. The hook is downward when the stem is upward
7. The hook goes upward when the stem is downward

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 JOSE MARIA COLLEGE
Philippine – Japan Friendship Highway, Sasa, Davao City
College of Teacher Education

MUSIC - Teaching Music in the Elementary Grades

8:00am – 11:00am
Summer 2020

LESSON 2

Normally, stems are exactly one octave in length:

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 JOSE MARIA COLLEGE
Philippine – Japan Friendship Highway, Sasa, Davao City
College of Teacher Education

MUSIC - Teaching Music in the Elementary Grades

8:00am – 11:00am
Summer 2020

LESSON 2

Combining these two rules, if the stem of a note on a ledger line is drawn one octave in length and the stem
does not reach the middle staff line, then it is extended to that staff line:

Beat – it is an equal division of the measure

C or common C signature is equal to 4/4
Broken Measure – takes place when the beats of the first and last measures have incomplete number of beats. In a
simple meter, each beat in a measure can be broken into two equal parts. For example in 3/4 time the quarter note is
used to count the three beats in each measure. The quarter note can be halved into eighth notes, therefore 3/4 is a simple
meter.

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 JOSE MARIA COLLEGE
Philippine – Japan Friendship Highway, Sasa, Davao City
College of Teacher Education

MUSIC - Teaching Music in the Elementary Grades

8:00am – 11:00am
Summer 2020

LESSON 2

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