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 Music Theory Facts

Music sheet by Mozart

Music theory includes learning how to understand and

communicate using the language of music. It establishes a
strong understanding on the fundamentals of music and also
helps create a system to have a better interpretation of musical
compositions.
UNDERSTANDING MUSIC

★ Music is said to be the universal language.

★ Music education helps enhance the language development.
★ It activates the brain which pushes someone to work harder,
thus raises a person’s IQ.
★ Music theory teaches how to read music notations and phrases
which are needed in making and playing a song.
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★ Learning how to read notes is like learning how to read the
alphabet.
★ Just like the English alphabet, the music alphabet also uses
letters.
★ Unlike in the English alphabet where we make words,
sentences, or phrases, in music, we make melodies and
harmonies.
★ The main difference is that the music alphabet contains only 7
letters – A, B, C, D, E, F, G.
★ In music, these letters are called musical phrase.
★ With the musical phrases, we now create a piece of music.
BASIC ELEMENTS OF MUSIC
★ Dynamics
○ Determines the differences in volume; how quiet or loud
should the music be played.
★ Rhythm
○ It determines the timing of the music

★ Pitch
○ It determines how high or low the melodies are.
★ Form
○ This refers to the structure of the musical composition.

★ Timbre
○ This is the sound or tone quality produced in the music
★ Texture
○ Refers to the combination of tempo, melody, and harmony
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MUSIC STAFF AND BAR LINES

★ Music Staff contains five lines with four

spaces.
★ This is the foundation of musical notes.
★ Each line and space represents a note.
Music Staff

★ Bar Lines are the vertical lines used

when writing music.
★ These lines help the musician keep
track of their placement in music.
Bar Line ★ The bar lines divide the music into
measures which are known as bars.

★ Bars have a certain number of

beats and they group beats into
patterns.
★ At the end of the music is the final
bar line which indicates the end or Final Bar Line
a movement of the composition.

★ Basically, a music staff is composed of

five lines but when a staff is required
to extend, a ledger line is added.
★ Ledger lines are used when notes are
too high or too low to put on the lines
on the music staff.
Ledger Line
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CLEFS

★ To determine what notes must be

represented by the lines and
spaces, a musical symbol known
as “clef” is placed in the music
staff.
Clef

★ The commonly used clefs are the Treble Clef or the G-Clef
and the Bass Clef or the F-Clef.

Treble Clef

★ The Treble Clef is also known as the

G-Clef.
★ Notice how the clef looks like the letter “g”
with the bottom part making a circle on the
second line of the staff.
★ It shows that the note on second line is G
Treble Clef that’s why it is also called as the G-clef.

When a treble clef is seen on the music staff, the lines and spaces
are represented by the following notes:
Fine ★ For the lines,
Does the notes
Boy assigned are
Good E,G,B,D, and
Every F respectively.
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★ Mnemonics can be used to easily remember the notes.
★ As for the notes in the G-clef, the most common mnemonic
used is Every Good Boy Does Fine.

E ★ For the lines, the

C notes assigned
A are F,A,C, and E
F respectively.

★ These notes are usually remembered by keeping in mind the

word FACE.

Bass Clef

★ The Bass Clef is also known as the F-Clef.

★ Notice how the two dots of the clef is placed
above and below the fourth line of the staff.
★ It indicates that the note on fourth line is F
that’s why it is also called as the F-clef.
Bass Clef

When a bass clef is seen on the music staff, the lines and spaces
are represented by the following notes:

★ For the lines,

Always
Fine the notes
Does assigned are
Boy G,B,D,F and A
Good respectively.
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★ As for the notes in the F-clef, a common mnemonic that can be
used is Good Boy Does Fine Always.

★ For the lines,

Grass the notes
Eat assigned are
Cows A,C,E, and G
All respectively.
★ To easily remember the notes, the mnemonic that can be used
is All Cows Eat Grass.
★ Any mnemonic can be used for all notes as long as it can be
easily remembered.

NOTE DURATION

★ Note duration determines the length of time of each note.

Semibreve / Whole note

★ This note has the longest duration and has four

beats.
Semibreve /
★ Note head is the term used to describe the
Whole note oval-shaped part of the musical note.

Minim / Half note

★ This note has half duration of the whole note

and has 2 beats.
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Crotchet / Quarter note

★ This note has a quarter note duration of the

whole note and has one beat.
Crotchet /
Quarter note

Quaver / Eighth note

★ This note has half of a quarter note duration and

has half beat.
Quaver / Eighth
note

Semiquaver / Sixteenth note

★ This note has a quarter of a quarter note

duration and has also a quarter beat.
Semiquaver /
Sixteenth note

★ If two quavers or semi quavers are

placed next to each other as part of
a beat, the note will look like this:

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Time Signatures

★ These are the numbers and types of notes in each bar of music.
★ There is only a specific number of music notes that is allowed in
each bar and these are determined by the time signature.
★ Time signatures has a top number and a bottom number.
★ The top number refers to the number of beats in a bar while the
bottom number determines the type of beat used.

Take for example the 2/4 time signature.

★ The upper number “2” indicates that there are two beats in a
bar.
★ The lower number “4” shows that the beat used is a quarter /
crotchet beat.
★ Therefore, we have two quarter / crotchet beats in each
measure.

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each item. Write your answers on the space
provided.

________ includes learning how to

understand and communicate using the
language of music.

________ is said to be the universal

language.

The music alphabet can also be

compared with the __________.

Through ___________ a complete piece

of music is completed.

What are the letters that consist the music

alphabet?

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________ includes learning how to

Music Theory understand and communicate using the
language of music.

________ is said to be the universal

Music
language.

The music alphabet can also be

English alphabet
compared with the __________.

Through ___________ a complete piece

musical phrases
of music is completed.

What are the letters that consist the music

A, B, C, D, E, F, G
alphabet?

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