Taurus Math/Science Challenge
Taurus Math/Science Challenge
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Taureans love music. How is music written? Music is written with notes instead of letters. When you write words, you use commas and periods to create rhythm. Music punctuation, like sentences, also has pauses and stops. Each note also has timing. Look at the following measure, or musical sentence. The fraction you see is 4/4. That means that the measure has four single beats. 1-2-3-4.
If you want the reader to hold the note
for four beats, you write a full note - an blank (empty) note with
no
line, or stem. See the first note.
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If
you want the reader to hold the note for only two beats before going
to the next note, you write a half-note
- a blank note with a stem going up or down from it. See
the second measure or paragraph. You need to half notes to complete a measure
of four beats.
If
you want the reader to hold the note for only one beat before going
to the next note, what do you think we
would call that note? That's right, it would be half of the half note. Look
at the third measure.Y ou would write a quarter note. A quarter
note is filled in, with a
stem going up or down from it. You need four quarter notes to complete
a measure of four beats.
If you want the reader to hold the note
for half of a beat before going to the next note, what do you think
we would call that note? That's right, it would be half of the quarter
note. Look at the fourth measure. You
would write a sixteenth note. A sixteenth note is filled in, with
a stem going up or down from it with a little wing. You need eight
sixteenth notes to complete a measure of four beats.