MARK ALBURGER, 2018: January 23

First day of Diablo Valley College Music Theory, Spring 2018!

Preparing for Quiz I, including...

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Treble Clef, on a 5-Line Staff (plural - Staves) (Wikipedia links for your reference)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clef

Measures and Bar Lines (Single and Double)

N.B.
a thin double bar (not pictured above) can serve as a section break
a (thick) double bar (above) can also called be called an end bar

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar_(music)

Three Basic Note (Time) Values (and corresponding rests)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Note_value

Time Signature (or Meter)

Numerator = How many beats (counts) per measure (2, 3, 4, 6, 9, 12 common - 1, 5, 7, 8, 11 less so)
Denominator = What kind of note gets the beat (2, 4, 8, 16 - 1, 32 rare - almost always binary)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_signature

Tempo (Speed) - often designated by a Metronome Marking - Beats per Minute (BPM)

Quarter Note = 60 Beats per Minute (i.e. one beat a second)
(One Measure of Quarter Notes in 4/4 above)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Nepomuk_Maelzel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metronome

C Major Scale (in Treble Clef, using Whole Notes, ascending)
(Middle C on a Ledger (additional, short) Line below the 5-line Staff)

... Letter Names, Scale-Degree Numbers

... Solfege

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_major

Typical Keyboard Fingering for C Major Scale

Musical (Piano, Organ, Harpsichord, Synthesizer) Keyboard
(Half Step = Distance between adjacent notes
White-Black, Black-White, White-White if no intervening Black
Whole Step = 2 Half Steps
# = Sharp, raises a note 1/2 Step
b = Flat, lowers a note 1/2 Step)