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A Tune a Day: Violin (A Tune a Day), 1933
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1RUDIMENTS OF MUSIC
3Music is represented on paper by a combination of symbols and signs, all of which it is necessary to learn in order to play the violin intelligently.
5Symbols called notes are written upon and between five lines which is the staff.
7The sign placed at the beginning of the staff is called the treble or G clef.
9The staff is divided by barlines into bars as follows:
11Barline Barline Barline
13These bars, in turn, are equal in time value, according to the fractional numbers, (Time signature) placed at the beginning of the music.
15The time signature indicates the number of notes of equal value in each bar. The upper figure gives the number of beats or counts in a bar, and the lower figure indicates what kind of a note has one beat, such as 4/4 or C equals
17four crotchets or the equivalent minim and two crotchets in each bar;
192/4 equals 2 crotchets; 4/8 equals 4 quavers, etc.
21There are different kinds of notes, each variety representing a certain time value as follows:
231 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &
25Semibreve equals, Two Minims, Four Crotchets, or Eight Quavers.
27The count for the above would be, four to the semibreve: two to each minim: one to each crotchet and one to each group of two quavers.
29The notes are named after the first seven letters of the alphabet, i.e., a, b, c, d, e, f, g, according to the line on or space in which they are placed.
31The Treble or G clef which encircles the second line, establishes the note G on this line, from which the other lines and spaces are named as follows:
33G A B C D E F G G G F E D
35In addition notes are written upon and between short lines above and below the staff. These lines are called leger lines.
37G A B C D D C B A G
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