Music theory

Jane: Can you give me one more music lesson?

Victor: Sure. What would you like to know?

Jane :I'd like to learn about music language or how to write down music, and read it.

Victor: Music is a sign language. Notes are a part of the language. They show if music sounds are high or low, long or short. The music staff is another part of music language. It is made of five lines. Each line has a name: 1 - E, 2 - G, 3 - B, 4 - D, 5 - F.

Each has a name , too: 1 - F, 2 - A, 3 - C, 4 - E. If we put a note on the staff, it gets a name - A, B, C, D, E, F, or G. There is a note on every line and in every space and there notes made with the signs called 'sharps' and 'flats'.

Jane: I read somewhere that in 1817 a Frenchman Surd introduced a new artificial language. It was based on 7 music notes (sounds). For example "si" (B) meant yes,

"do" ( C) - no, "re"(D) - and "mi"(E) - or, "do-re" (C-D) - I ... The speech cold be played on a musical instrument. But the new language was too difficult to become popular.

Victor: That's interesting.

Jane: And how music can be measured?

Victor: To measure music, we use "measures" .Two bar lines make a box, called ameasure. In each measure there is the same number of beats. The top number at the beginning at the beginning of the music tells how many beats are in each measure.

Jane: Beats show the length of notes, do they?

Victor: That's right. A one - beat note is called a quarter note, a two - beat note is called half note, a four - beat note is called a whole note. The beats in music are always even. We can feel two, three, four, or more beats in a group. This is called the meter.

The number of beats felt together is the Meter of a song. Each measure "measures" the beats you feel together. The " time signature" at the beginning of the song tells the meter . The number of beats in each measure.

Jane :What about silent notes or pauses?

Victor: Those signs are called "rests" and they tell us to stop , and be silent they are like music notes. There are other music signs: a "slur" - is a curved line that ties two or more notes together, so that you go smoothly from one note to the next ; a "fermata" shows that the note under the Fermata is held longer than usual, and others. When you use music language, what you say should make sense, just as what you say in English should make sense, just as what you say in English should make sense.

Say if the statement is right or wrong right wrong

The music staff is a part of music language.

Frenchman Surd invented a new language.

Two bar lines make a box, called a measure.

The beats in music are not always even.

Unit 22 Job application, questionnaire.

Task 1.Sample test

The airline on which you were travelling home has lost your suitcase. Fill in the form below giving as much information as you can.