Mathematics and Society - OS X Lion Server

NOT£S,~£STS~~~ r~f1CrIOrYSFractions play a vital part in music.Music cannot be composed and musical scorescannot be read without some understanding of the fractional values represented bymusical notes and key signatures.introduction to musical notation will be necessary.Before using the following student pages, a briefSome suggestions are given below.I. MUSICAL NOTES AND RESTS ARE GIVEN FRACTIONAL NAMES.A whole note may be played for different lengths of time in different pieces of1music. If it is played for 1 second, then a quarter note would be played for 4second. If a whole note is played for 2 seconds, then a quarter note would beplayed for 21second and so forth. The same relationship holds for rests. (In fact,the rest remains to be seen and not heard.)NOTE NAME REST NAME0 whole noted half note-------halfwhole restrestJ quarter note I quarter restJ eighth note '1 eighth restJ sixteenth note :; sixteenth restII. TIME SIGNATURES LOOK LIKE ACTUAL FRACTIONS.The top number refers to the number of beats in each measure.designates the kind of note that receives one beat.The bottom numberI") I I I I/ .....J A lIIIIIt 1- J I 1\ I 1\ I(( "\ / l- T -' - C :1 J... J ..\: / , It-TIME 5lGt-lATURE- 3 BEATS PE.R MEASURE- QUARiE.R NOTe GE,S O\\lE BEAT,JvOIJE. MEASURE -3 BEAlS,• BARSSEPARATE. Tfi£MEASURE.S283