This document discusses musical notation. It explains that a musical staff consists of five lines and four spaces, and that clefs like the treble and bass clef assign notes to these lines. It then defines note duration, with whole notes having the longest duration of 4 beats, half notes having half that duration at 2 beats, and quarter notes having a duration of 1 beat. The time signature is also introduced, with common time signatures being 4/4 and 3/4 time.

2. UNIT II:
FORM

3. LESSON 1:
MUSICAL
LINES

4. A musical staff
consists of five
lines and four
spaces.

6.  A clef is a sign placed
at the beginning of a
musical staff to tell
the pitch of the notes.

7.  There are two (2)
kinds of clef:
1) Treble Clef / G Clef
2) Bass Clef / F Clef

8. The Treble Clef or
G Clef assigns the
note G to a line
on the staff.

10.  The Bass Clef or F Clef
looks like an inverted
letter C and assigns the
note F on the line on
the staff.

12. The length of time
wherein a note is
played is called
note duration.

13.  The whole
note has the
longest
duration with
4 beats.

14.  The half note
has the half
duration of the
whole note
with 2 beats.

15.  Two half notes
take up the
same amount
of time as one
whole note.

16.  A quarter note
has one-fourth
the duration of
a whole note
with 1 beat.

17.  Four quarter notes
take up the same
amount of time as
one whole note.
 Two quarter notes
take up the same
amount of time as
one half note.

18.  The time signature is
represented by two numbers
wherein the number on top
indicates the number of beats in
each measure.

19.  The first measure is 4
4.
 The second measure is 3
4.

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