Lesson 5_Accidentals

1. Accidental in Music
Lesson 1_Unit 2-Melody

2. Melody
– said to be the heart and soul of music.
– It is a series of single tones arranged horizontally,
expressing the composer’s thoughts and ideas.
- Has direction, pitch, timing, form, and continuity
Accidentals
– other musical signs commonly used in musical
compositions.
– They are used to change the pitch of a note.
– musical symbols in music symbols in a music
sheet such as flat, double sharp, natural, double
flat, and double sharp.

3. The use and purpose of accidentals in
music are to either raise or lower the
musical notes than they were
originally written or played. An
Accidental, in music, is a sign placed
to the left or above a note to indicate
a change in pitch.

4. The most commonly used accidentals:
Sharp
-sign raises the pitch of a note by one
semitone or half tone.
-placed beside a note, symbols look like a
pound sign.

5. The most commonly used accidentals:
Flat
-sign lowers the pitch of a note by one
semitone or half tone.
-placed before a note lowers the note by a
half note or semitone.
- Symbol looks like a lower case b.

6. The most commonly used accidentals:
Natural
-Sign restores the effect of a raised or
lowered note to its original pitch, which
means that it cancels the effect of a
previous sharp or flat sign used on a note
within the same measure.
-It looks like a box with two extended
lines above and below it.

7. The most commonly used accidentals:
Double Sharp Sign
- It indicates that the note is raised by
two semitones.
- It resembles a bold letter x.

8. The most commonly used accidentals:
Double Flat Sign
- It indicates that the note is lowered by
two semitones

10. Study how the accidentals
are written on the staff

12. - Black keys from lower C to higher C on the keyboard are both
sharps and flats
- The black keys are between white keys, called natural keys

14. Semitone or a halftone
- Movement from the white key
to the black key next to it
- For example, if you start playing
from F to F #, you are moving by
a half step.

15. Enharmonic tones
-Two names of the
black keys

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