© 2020 Disney/Pixar Subscription Required THE MATHS IN MUSIC Whole numbers and fractions are everywhere when it comes to music and are especially important as they enable musicians to read music and interpret the length of a note easily. Award-winning maths and English tuition for fearless learners explorelearning.co.uk NOTE Take a look at the key here: SEMIBREVE 1 bar = 1 MINIM CROTCHET QUAVER WHOLE HALF QUARTER EIGTH When people write music, they break the piece down into bars (or ‘measures’). In four quarter time, a bar is the length of one whole note (’semibreve’). Bars are separated with a vertical line like this: In the above example, we can clearly see that we have 2 bars. We have 2 minims (1/2 + 1/2) which equals 1 bar. Add another 2 minims (1/2 + 1/2) which equals 1 bar. So in total we have 2 bars. However, our composer has been a little lazy and has forgotten to add the bar lines to the following sheet of music! We will have to use our knowledge of fractions to figure out how many bars we have instead. 1/2 1/2 1/2 1/2 2 bars + + + = We will be using four quarter time for our activities today.
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© 2020 Disney/PixarSubscription Required
THE MATHSIN MUSIC
Whole numbers and fractions are everywhere when it comes to music and are especially important as they enable musicians to read music and interpret the length of a note easily.
Award-winning math
s and English
tuition for fearless le
arners
explorelearning.co.uk
NOTE
Take a look at the key here:
SEMIBREVE
1 bar = 1
MINIM
CROTCHET
QUAVER
WHOLE
HALF
QUARTER
EIGTH
When people write music, they break the piece down intobars (or ‘measures’).
In four quarter time, a bar is the length of one whole note (’semibreve’).
Bars are separated with a vertical line like this:
In the above example, we can clearly see that we have 2 bars. We have 2 minims (1/2 + 1/2) which equals 1bar. Add another 2 minims (1/2 + 1/2) which equals 1 bar. So in total we have 2 bars.
However, our composer has been a little lazy and has forgotten to add the bar lines to the following sheet of music! We will have to use our knowledge of fractions to figure out how many bars we have instead.
1/2 1/2 1/2 1/2 2 bars+ + + =
We will be using four quarter time for our activities today.
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ACTIVITY 1
Using your fractions skills, try to work out how many bars long each of these pieces of music is.
1/2 1/2 1 bar+ =
2 bars1/2 1/2 1/41/41/4 1/4+ + +++ =
++ + +++ =
For example:
And:
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© 2020 Disney/PixarSubscription Required
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arners
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ACTIVITY 2
Each of these pieces of music need to be four bars long. Can you add your own notes to complete the piece?
= 4
= 4
Using your fractions skills, try to work out how many bars long each of these pieces of music is.
++ + +++ =
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