Swans On the Lake

TEMPO

TEMPO means TIME. A steady, even TEMPO is necessary to preserve the rhythmical swing. This means that there is no time to stop and hunt for notes or fingers. After a piece has been learned is should be reviewed until be reviewed until it can be played fluently and easily without stops or hesitation.

TONAL SHADING : As painter creates beautiful pictures by lights and shadow so in music do we add color to our musical pictures by means of means of TONAL SHADING. A MELODY LINE should constantly change in “thickness”. This may be accomplished by adding MORE or LESS intensity to the tone. Everythink possible should be done to make our music “flow”. This applies equally to Melody, Rhythm and harmony. “Contrast is the first law of all art.”

PATTERNS

Musical Form

Because it is built up of  many well ordered PATTERNS, music has often been compared to architecture. We have in music, Melody pattern, Rhythmical Pattern, Harmony Pattern and (in piano music) Finger Pattern. The ability to recognize PATTERNS is very important it makes for easier Sight-Reading, quacker Memorizing and more intelegent Interpretation.

THE MELODY PATTERN

Fix in your mind the above melody pattern in the right hand and note that the tones move THREE STEPS upward and ONE SKIP downward

The same PATTERN one while key heigher.

Note now that this design is repeated is repeated over and over throughout the little composition. Each design starting ONE TONE higher than the preceding pattern.

RHYTHM and ACCENTS

RHYTHM and ACCENTS

RHYTHM has been called the soul of music. Rhythnical “swing” give life to any composition. The first step in setting the RHYTHM is by means of the ACCENT. An ACCENT is a special emphasis placed upon ONE of the beats in a measure. RUN_AWAY RIVER is written in THREE-FOUR rhythm, which means ONE count to each quarter-note and THREE counts to each measure.

Always accent the first beat of each measure in three-four rhythm. TWO – FOUR rhythm means ONE count to each quarter-note and TWO counts to each measure. Accents the FIRST note of each measure.

COUNT : | ONE two | etc.  

JOHN THOMPSON’S

MODERN COURSE FOR THE PIANO

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Symbol Musik

On books or sheet music piano, you'll find lots of piano symbols, words or abbreviations. Composer makes it easy for you to know how to play the song. many who do not know the meaning of terms of music.

dynamic signs to determine how slow or hard at play

pp

Pianissimo = very soft


P
piano = soft


MP
mezzo piano = half or moerately soft

MF
mezzo forte = half or moerately loud

F
forte = loud

ff
fortissimo = very loud









sometimes written, abbreviated cresc, or written as a sign of hard play











Diminuendo : sometimes written, abbreviated decresc, or written as a sign of a more gentle play.

Partitur Musik Klasik

kinds of musical signs

There are many signs on the songs, maybe we've never heard of them. signs will be discussed here that we rarely hear.

A tempo
a tempo : play the same speed when you start playing the song


Coda
coda : the final phrase of a song

D.S. al coda 
should continue to the end of the song, back in       marker, play up    
From there, go to Coda, without any lag when moving around in the songs.

 Fermata : last longer than usual. A silly but easy way to keep in mind that Fermata make a note which will be held approximately twice as long as usual.

   

legato : 

itself has several different meanings, one based on the flow of Italian music and the other based on the flow of German music. On the flow of Italian, singing legato means a combination of several successive notes at a time, while the German school to sing legato means as quickly as possible from one note to the next tone without interruption at a time.

Oktaf, or 8va: play an octave higher or lower.

Poco

Poco : written before the words mean little.

Rit. 

Ritardando : Often abbreviated as rit, played and gradually slows down.

Sforzando : play the notes of a sudden, very loud and clear.

Staccato :  means to make a slow and separate records.

Tenuto mark : tap into the note, giving full value. Give emphasis additional notes by simply emphasizing the value of the count.

 

Tremolo : play the notes back and forth as fast as you can