UFCEXR-20-1Multimedia Sound Production Notes of the Treble and Bass Staves.

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Multimedia Sound Production

Notes of the Treble and Bass Staves

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Agenda

Note Values on the Treble Stave Note Values on the Bass Stave Ledger Line Note Values Staves and Ledger Lines Combined Mapping Stave Values to a 49 Note MIDI Keyboard

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Theory and Conventions

Musical notes are written on a Stave - also written as Staff Note values below a certain pitch are written on the Bass Stave Notes values above a certain pitch are written on the Treble

Stave Note values that are outside the range of the bass and treble

stave are written on Ledger Lines Each stave is identified by a special symbol called a Clef The Treble Clef identifies the treble stave The Bass Clef identifies the bass stave The note Middle C is midway between the bass and treble

stave

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Notes on the Treble Stave

Space notes

Line notes

FA

CE

E G B D F

Symbol for the Treble Clef

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Notes on the Bass Stave

Space notes

Line notes

AC

EG

G B D F A

Symbol for the Bass Clef

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Notes Between the Bass and Treble Staves

B DMiddle C

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Space and Ledger Line Notes below the Bass Stave

C ED F

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Space and Ledger Line Notes above the Treble Stave

G BA C

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The convention is to write notes on or above the stave middle line with tail facing down

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Notes two ledger lines above and below the staves are both C

C

C

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C5

These notes correspond to the bass and treble limits of a 49 - note keyboard

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The Transpose Octave switch can map keys to other zones of an 88 note keyboard

Thus a smaller keyboard can still access all of the available 88 notes

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Write all the notes on the staves from C1 to C5

Start by writing all the C notes, then D, E, F, G, A, B

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MIDI 49-note Keyboard mapped to pitch values C1..C5 (Logic Values)

C1 D1 E1 F1 G1 A1 B1

Middle C

C2 D2 E2 F2 G2 A2 B2C3 D3 E3 F3 G3 A3 B3 C4 D4 E4 F4 G4 A4 B4 C5

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Essential ReadingRead the following to support and extend your understanding:

Charlton: pages 22-40

Treble Stave note recognitionand related exercises