Music Theory

ALLEGEDLY, the Mozart effect increases academic potential in young children, thus making them overall "smarter". Apparently, it is known to expediate mental development or increase "spatial intelligence". It has also been linked to seizure and epilepsy prevention. HOWEVER, the Mozart effect is a theory and all tests done, have either been of too small a population, inconclusive, or downright wrong. All these alleged positive effects may not neccessarily stem from listening to Mozart in particular but Classical music as a whole. Whether or not the Mozart effect actually exists, remains to be determined. But so far, it hasn't the compelling evidence to support it.

This is coming from someone who has listened to Classical music since childhood and failed to experience any direct result from it.

A movie soundtrack typically consists of music composed specifically for the film, as well as popular songs or pre-existing music that is used to enhance the mood or atmosphere of certain scenes. Soundtracks can also include sound effects and dialogue snippets from the movie.

There are 8 demisemiquavers in a crotchet.

The tempo of a waltz. 123-123-123... So as fast as you would dance a waltz.

Compound meter consists of pulses which divide into groups of three. Typically, each beat is shown as a dotted quarter note, which then divides into three eighth notes.

Compound meter can be found with two, three, or four pulses. In all cases, the top number of a time signature is a multiple of three, showing the number of groupings (ie. a "6" indicates 2 groups of 3, 2x3 = 6; a "9" indicates 3 groups of 3, 3x3 = 9; a "12" indicates 4 groups of 3, 4x3 = 12).

The lower number of the time signature indicates the type of notes in each grouping.

For example, 6/8 time consists of 2 groupings of 3 eighth notes in each bar.

6/4 would use 2 groupings of 3 quarter notes.

When things audio was being recorded analog on tape it was difficult to edit. Often times this required splicing the tape or just re-recording the track. With digital editing you can just click and edit. If you make a mistake you can undo it and try again. It's not nearly as destructive as analog editing was.

The leading note of B major is A#.

Tone, semitone, tone, tone, semitone, tone + semitone, semitone.

Really, writing music comes in many different ways, but what I think of as writing music would be creating a piece of music totally from thoughts and writing them.

E double sharp is simply the note E double sharp. On the piano keyboard it is the first black note in the grouping of three black notes (just to the left of the note "G"). In 12 tone equal temperament it has the same pitch as F# and Gb.

It is a very infrequently used note in diatonic music; mostly just in A# minor (and usually as a chromatic alteration of an already altered chord), but it sometimes shows up in big clusters of notes, as well. Mostly, it is a theoretical note (which IS used when you got into the realm of temporary "imaginary keys", like G# and A# Major).

In America, a semibreve is called a whole note.

Mandolin tablature is written on a staff of four lines, each line representing one pair of strings. The top line is the pair of E strings, the second line is the A strings, the third line is the D and the lowest line is the G strings:

E--------------------

A--------------------

D--------------------

G--------------------

Any number, from 0 to 20, represents the fret you want played on that particular string, with 0 meaning the open string (played without being fretted). For example, if you wanted to play the G note at the third fret of the E string, it would look like this:

E--3-----------------

A--------------------

D--------------------

G--------------------

Numers are always read from left to right, regardless of which string the note is played. Playing two full octaves of the G major scale, from low to high, would look like this:

E-----------------------------------------0--2--3---

A----------------------------0--2--3--5------------

D---------------0--2--4--5-------------------------

G-0--2--4--5---------------------------------------

Chords are represented by having the numbers placed directly over one another on their respective string lines. A G major chord would be represented like this:

E--3------------------

A--2------------------

D--0------------------

G--0------------------

E flat major has three flats - B, E, and A.

In the early days of top-40 (popular music), kids were asked to rate their favorite songs, and they would often mention that a song "had a good beat" and was therefore easy to dance to. That beat-- the rhythm of a song-- is what holds it together. Not all rhythm is fast-- it can be slow, it can change tempo, but without rhythm, all other elements of a work of music would break down. Melodies and chords would be dimensionless sequences of notes, and tempo would be meaningless. Rhythm gives music life, whether one is listening to it, singing it, playing it or dancing to it.

Do you mean rhythms? You can combine different note values to get different rhythms. For example, in 4/4 time, You can use a quarter note, two eight notes, and a half note in one measure. There are tons of possibilities... try finding more!

Raises it by a semitone

It means the same as the word Cantabile which means 'in a singing style'.

No, altos are not the same as mezzo-sopranos. Altos are the lowest voice part, followed by mezzo-soprano. While most of the time they sing harmony to sopranos, they are not the same.

G, d, a, e, b, f#, c#

The major keys with sharps in order are:

G Major, DM, AM, EM, BM, F#M, C#M.

Although music has had rhythm since music was first conceived, the person who is generally held responsible for the invention of measured, fixed rhythm is Franco of Cologne.

A half note or a quarter note has a stem but neither flags nor beams. if an eighth note or smaller comes at the beginning or end of a measure, next to a quarter note, it will be written with one or more flags. Eighth notes or smaller that come consecutively may be written with flags or beams.

'Excalibur', 1981.

'Glory' 1989.

'Hunt for Red October', 1990.

'The Doors', 1991.

'Natural Born killers', 1994.

'The Bachelor', 1999.

'Jackass: the Movie', 2002.

'Cheaper By the Dozen', 2003.

'Epic Movie', 2007.

'G-Force', 2009

'General's Daughter,1999.

Detroit Rock City, 1999.

The Messenger The Story of Joan of Arc burned at the stake (Ivana Orleanska), 1999.

"It Came Upon a Midnight Clear".

"do", "re", "mi", "fa", "so", "la" and "ti" are the basic ones, but each of those notes would have variations, used when you raise or lower a note chromatically (for example: a raised "do" is a "di" and a raised "re" is a "ri", and a lowered "ti" is a "to")