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The document discusses various musical notation terms including time signature, bar line, measure, duplet, triplet, dots, ties, and syncopation. It explains that a time signature indicates the number of beats and note value in each measure, and other terms like duplet and triplet refer to dividing the beat into different note groupings. Syncopation is described as placing rhythmic stresses in unexpected places that interrupt the regular flow of rhythm.

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Assignment THEORY

The document discusses various musical notation terms including time signature, bar line, measure, duplet, triplet, dots, ties, and syncopation. It explains that a time signature indicates the number of beats and note value in each measure, and other terms like duplet and triplet refer to dividing the beat into different note groupings. Syncopation is described as placing rhythmic stresses in unexpected places that interrupt the regular flow of rhythm.

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Assignment Samuel Castro 1-MUS -3

A TIME SIGNATURE tells you how the music is to be counted. The time signature is written at the
beginning of the staff after the clef and key signature.
Time signatures consist of two numbers written like a fraction.

Ex 4/4 3/4 2/4

The top number of the time signature tells you how many beats to count. This could be any
number. Most often the number of beats will fall between 2 and 12.
The bottom number tells you what kind of note to count. That is, whether to count the beats as
quarter notes, eighth notes, or sixteenth notes. So the only numbers you will see as the bottom
number (the denominator) will correspond to note values:

Notes and rests


Bar line- A bar line (or barline) is a single vertical line used to divide a musical staff into
measures. 

Measure- A measure is the section of a musical staff that comes between two barlines.
Each measure satisfies the specified time signature of the staff. 

Duplet- A duplet is a tuplet that permit to divide the beat (or more than 1 beat) by 2
in compound meters.

The rule is: A duplet can put 2 music notes in the equivalent of 3. Or more exactly, A duplet
can put 2 notes of equal length in the equivalent of the duration of 3 notes of equal length.

Triplet- A triplet—a type of “tuplet”—is a group of three notes played inside another note-length.
It's a portion of musical time that's been split rhythmically into three equal parts. A triplet is
identified by a small " 3" above or below its note beam, bracket, or slur.
Dots- A dot that is placed after the note to indicate a change in the duration of a note.
The dot adds half of the value of the note to itself. For example, a dotted half note gets 3 beats -
value of a half note is 2, half of 2 is 1 so 2 + 1 = 3.

Ties- The marking for ties and slurs is identical and often confuses students. The difference is
a tie connects two notes of the same pitch (on the same line or space of the staff).
A slur applies to two or more different notes and means the two different notes should be
played legato.

Syncopation- More simply, syncopation is "a disturbance or interruption of the regular flow of


rhythm": a "placement of rhythmic stresses or accents where they wouldn't normally occur"

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