Musical Terminology

Finale Notepad is a freeware viewer for music files which are created by the music composing software 'Finale'. There you cannot do any edits to a file, so you cannot use grace notes while in the viewer. If you would need to add elements to a existing .mus file (Finale Music Notation file), you should have the software, not the viewer.

crescendo (cre-shen-do), a musical term meaning a gradual increase in sound, from soft to very lound.

The term dynamics refers to whether a sound is soft or loud.=]...+

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it makes the note a half step higher

There are 2 quavers in a crotchet.

The more literal meaning of the word ‘Assai’ when couched in the context of a musical tempo is “enough”.

So Allegro assai is “fast enough”. Or you might prefer “rather fast”, “pretty fast” or something similar.

Trying to cast it as “very fast” opens up an obvious further question which, if we are now to assume that the tempo indicated is now somewhere in the realms of ‘presto’ or even ‘prestissimo’ leaves us in a problematic zone if the composer later follows up with “piu allegro” - it has happened a few times.

people are influenced by the music they listen to for a few reasons. for starters let's say people are influenced based on their own beliefs,attitudes, and overall personality. for example.. some people like rock, some like ' screamo', some like rap etc. although the songs can all be related to a certain meaning ( love, loss, life, hardships, etc.) the way the music is presented to the listener, and the way that the music aligns it's self to the listeners particular personality, are what influence that person to relate to the style of music they listen to. music also has another powerful attribute that hits the listeners in way that makes them want the music they listen to for many emotional reasons. for example... a person will listen to let's say.. RAP, and the emotion that rap brings to them is a feeling of rebellion, a feeling of power, and other emotions that they lack and want to feel in themselves. or the emotions that they have and relate to. overall music as my understanding, thought, and opinion.. is about the emotions that it makes people feel. the stronger the emotions, and the more emotions a song/artist can bring out in it's listeners, the more affective and influential the music in its self becomes. which in turn, can start to grasp a larger audience. chris smith,

A whole note :)

Hope this helped!

There is no "fastest" time signature, but a time signature like 64/64 would be EXTREMELY fast, a sixty-fourth note would equal one beat. but songs could *potentially* be in 128/128 for even faster.

Generally, harmony is achieved when a group sings or plays instruments together in a matching or conforming pitch or progression.

More specifically, harmony is a combination of two or three tones played together in the background while a melody is being played.

It's a dance that is in a circle formation.

Waltzes are in 3/4 time, but because of how fast they go, they're almost always conducted in 1.

Prestissimo is the fastest musical tempo, followed in decending tempo by presto (very fast), vivace (lively), allegro (fast), moderato (moderate), adante (walking pace), adagio (slow), largo (very slow), and grave (very, very slow). The term "accelerando" means to get faster, and "ritardando" means to get slower, while "a tempo" means to return to the original pace.

A riff in a song is usually an instrumental part from the guitar, it's when a guitarist (or bassist) plays the chord up and down the scale as the notes meld with one another. You can find samples of these in most rock or metal bands-or if you want something with a isolated example, Apple's Garageband has several tracks that are rock riffs from a rock guitar (that's how I learned what it was).

A crochet is a note that lasts for one beat and a minim is a note that lasts for two beats so a crochet minim is a note that lasts for three beats as it is a the time of a crochet plus the time of a minim which is three beats...

Crescendo means gradually getting louder, in music terms.

The set of names regarding fractions are derived from the fraction it takes in the common time signature, 4/4. A semiquaver takes 1/16 from such a measure. Therefore it is also known as sixteenth note.

There are hundreds of musical terms that end in a vowel. These terms can be found on various websites that contain a music glossary.

4/4 as if Carly Rae Jepsen even knows about odd time signatures...

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Slow

Cut time is basically Common time cut in half.

Common time is 4/4 time. Which is 4 beats per measure, one beat equal to one quarter note.

Cut time is 2/2 time. Two beats a measure, one beat equal to one half note.

The only difference between the two is the way that the rythym is counted. Each one dictates one whole note, two half notes, four quarter notes, or eight eighth notes per measure.

In common time , four quarters notes would be counted as, 1 2 3 4

In cut time, four quarter notes would be coutned as 1 + 2 +

Cut time is used for fast paced songs. If you want four quarter notes to be played very rapidly, insetead of using common time (or 4/4 time) to count each quarter note, it is easier to use cut time (2/2 time) and count every other note.