Intro to keyboard, clefs, accidentals, enharmonics.

1. Harmony 1
Week 1

2. • Megan Rogerson-Berry
• megan.berry2@wintec.ac.nz
• Facebook: Megan Rogerson-Berry Mediarts
• Phone: 07 843 8800 ext 3291

3. Please bring headphones to class every week
Please bring your laptop or tablet to class every
week (if you have one).

4. Introductions
• Two truths and a lie.
• Introduce yourself to the class – give your
name
• Tell us two things that are true about you, and
one lie
• We will try and guess which one is a lie.

5. Week By Week
• Weekly Schedule
• Harmony Project

6. Harmony Worksheets
• It is imperative that you keep up with the
Harmony worksheets that cover the topics
presented in class each week
• Your success in the Harmony quizzes will have
a direct relationship to your understanding of
the worksheets.

7. Notation and Materials
• Notation Worksheets
• Bic Mechanical Pencil #2, 0.7mm
• Eraser
• 7 Stave Manuscript Paper (available as a print
out on Moodle).

8. Learning Outcomes
• By the end of today’s session, students will be
able to:
– Understand the function and purpose of the stave
– Identify 2 different clefs
– Know the notes on the stave using treble and bass
clefs.
– Understand the concept of accidentals and
enharmonic spellings

9. The Keyboard
• An important first step to understanding
music notation and theory is getting familiar
with the piano keyboard.
• The common names for the white keys are:

10. The Stave
• The foundation of our notational system is a
grid of five lines called a staff or stave

11. • The position of notes placed on the stave
visually represents the relative highness and
lowness of pitches.
high low

12. • When the notes on the staff are combined
with a clef, they can represent the white notes
on a piano.
• A clef is a graphical symbol that indicates
which part of the keyboard is being displayed,
although any instrument can play these notes

13. Clefs
• Each line and space of the stave is assigned a
letter name.
• The letter names are arranged alphabetically
in ascending order
• A B C D E F G
• The location of the letter name is determined
by the clef at the beginning of the stave

14. Treble Clef / G Clef

16. Bass Clef/ F Clef

18. Ledger Lines
• Small lines called ledger lines are added to
extend the stave

19. • Notes in the spaces directly below or above
the stave do not need added ledger lines
• Notes directly on ledger lines do not need
added ledger lines.

20. Accidentals
• In musical notation, we need symbols that
allow use to notate pitches other than the
“white key” notes; C, D, E, F, G, A and B.
• These symbols are called accidentals
• An accidental raises or lowers a white key note
by one or more half steps
• The most common accidental symbols are the
sharp ♯ and the flat ♭.
• They allow us to name the black keys.

21. Sharp
• A sharped pitch is one that is a half step
higher than a standard letter name

22. Flat
• A flatted pitch is on that is a half step lower
than a standard letter name.

23. Enharmonics
• The pitches produced by the black keys have
two different names.
• This is called enharmonic spelling – different
names for the same pitch.