Music Theory

Sol-Fa was first used by Guido de Arrezo, a Benedictine monk of the tenth century. The syllables were (and still are) combined with hand movements providing a sonic and visual means of remembering notes usually to be sung. This method was extensively used at that time as musical notation as we know it now had not been developed.

A metronome marking of crotchet = 76 means that there should be 76 crotchet beats per minute in a simple time signature.

Simply put, because they hadn't developed the five line staff yet.

Standard Musical Notation started with a system called neumes, which were just squiggles. Eventually those squiggles became square shaped notes (similar to our oval shaped notes) and were written around a single line staff. Over time, as music developed, the need for more lines arose. The four lined staff became the first one that was used extensively... and that lasted for a few hundred years, because it was large enough to cover the span of the melodies sung at the time. By the 13th and 14th centuries, the five lined staff became more frequent but was not generally accepted until around the 15th century.

Vibrato or trill, depending on the magnitude.

Treble is the highest. Bass is lowest, then alto, then treble.

A mordant is basically a very short trill, where the note changes once and goes back.

Not really. It does look a bit like a fancy G, but its called a G clef because the line in the centre of the swirl is the line for G, if that makes sense.

Every triad will be on either all lines or all spaces. If it's not on all lines or spaces it probably isn't a triad, unless it's inverted. If it's inverted, then two notes will either be on a line or a space and the third note would be on the opposite of the other two notes. In addition, there'd be a space in-between the two notes and the third note.

A crotchet is the British term for the American quarter note. A semibreve is a whole note, therefore, a crotchet is played a quarter of a whole note.

E to F-sharp is one whole step. F-sharp is a major 3rd above D, so it's part of the D major scale.

Depends on the chords you are talking about.

Major chords have a major third then a minor chord

Minor chords have a minor third and then a major chord

Augmented chords have two major thirds

Diminished chords have two minor thirds

In 3/2, a whole note gets two beats.

Claudio Sanchez and Travis Stever have been playing music together since they were 12 or 13 years old, since they lived in the same area and went to the same school. Josh Eppard was introduced to the band around 1995 when Claudio and Travis' band played with a band that Josh and his brother Joey were in. Mic Todd, although he is from New Jersey, also met them that way.

Essentially, Coheed were a part of the 90's post-hardcore Woodstock/Hudson Valley scene. All the musicians from that scene and region know each other and have been in and out of each other's bands for years.

A semiquaver lasts for a quarter of a beat

I think its when there's a principal of music and there's a melody in Indonesia. x Hope it helps :)

A parallel Major/minor is a major and minor key that has the same letter name. Example: C Major an c minor.

Yes, although it's more often called Ab.

An augmented triad is made of two major thirds, and is the only triad not found in a diatonic scale. For example, the chord could be made of C natural, E natural, and G sharp.

It is diatonic. Di means two, so you can think of it as two tones.

A chromatic semitone would be from D to D#, or Eb to E. The difference is that Chromatic semitones use the same letter name twice, while diatonic semitones do not.

C. D double flat is C on any instrument.

A good piano theory book to learn is from a book called Basics of Keyboard Theory by Julie Mclntosh Johnson. It has levels from 1-advanced. It is a wonderful book and it helped me pass the CM piano examination.

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The treble clef (not cleft) is a G clef, because it indicates the staff position of the note G.

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