leaning note

appoggiatura Hear this out loudPauseOur next musical ornament, the appoggiatura, comes from the Italian word for a “leaning” note. The appoggiatura sounds rather like a wrong note followed by the right note. It's shown by a small quaver note written just before the main note.

Hear this out loudPauseIn music, a half note (American) or minim (British) is a note played for half the duration of a whole note (or semibreve) and twice the duration of a quarter note (or crotchet).

Hear this out loudPauseThe next pitch is called the octave because it's the eighth note (just as an octopus has eight legs). More than a thousand years ago the letters of the Roman alphabet were adopted to refer to these, and since there were only seven the letters ran A, B, C, D, E, F, G.

Hear this out loudPauseIn music theory, an appoggiatura is a two-note sequence where a grace note precedes a principal note. The time value of the principal note can be any duration - for instance a quarter note, an eighth note, or a 16th note - and the grace note value will be far shorter.

staff Hear this out loudPausestaff, also spelled stave, in the notation of Western music, five parallel horizontal lines that, with a clef, indicate the pitch of musical notes.

Hear this out loudPauseA note indicates both pitch and rhythm . Notes are written on a staff . Notes with a higher frequency (shorter wavelength) are written higher on the staff than notes with a lower frequency (longer wavelength). That is, higher notes are placed above lower ones.

Let's take a. Look so when we see that little hat when there's complete silence it's a half note rest right that's right my. Friend. This one here is a whole note. It is equal to four quarter notes.

So you can see how they line up with each. Other. And of course the half note must be half of something. The whole note the whole note looks like a big bold oval without a stem like.

Hear this out loudPauseSo the final order of the 12-note chromatic scale, going upwards, is C, C sharp/D flat, D, D sharp/E flat, E, F F sharp/G flat, G, G sharp/A flat, A, A sharp/B flat, and B (see image above).

Each clef indicates how the lines and spaces of the staff correspond to pitch.

• In Western musical notation, pitches are designated by the first seven letters of the Latin alphabet: A, B, C, D, E, F, and G.
• This assumption varies with milieu .

Hear this out loudPauseYes, appoggiatura is a grace note, a form of ornamentation. A grace note is a smaller note, usually one note higher or lower, attached to the main note. The other type of grace note is acciaccatura. Grace notes are a type of a handful of different ornaments, such as mordents, turns, and trills.

Hear this out loudPauseIn the Classical period, an acciaccatura is usually performed before the beat and the emphasis is on the main note, not the grace note. The appoggiatura long or short has the emphasis on the grace note. Whether the note should be played before or on the beat is largely a question of taste and performance practice.