The ROUND and the silence of round

The music and music theory for reading it is full of symbols and pictures that we must be able to understand in order to enjoy its interpretation later. Just as we have had to learn to read to enjoy books and literature, you will get much more out of music if you achieve this approach by learning about music notation.

In this lesson from a TEACHER we will learn about the round and the silence of round, one of the basic musical figures you need to read and write musical works.

Index

1. What is the round and the silence of round
2. What is a rhythmic figure
3. Types of musical figure: notes and rests
4. How to recognize and write musical figures
5. The musical ligature

The round is one of the basic musical rhythmic figures and has the duration of 4 times. Since each musical figure has an equivalent silence, the silence of the round as well as its figure, lasts the same as the round, that is, 4 times of silence.

It may be that you have just started your journey in learning music, so that you can learn more about this new world of music. music reading we have included more sections in this article to help you understand more terms and basic concepts of figure reading rhythmic.

Music is made up not only of notes but also of silences. For both notes and rests there are set values ​​to be able to write music. We know how long a note or rest should last in a measure thanks to the symbol in this figure.

The figures they are the basis of rhythm writing, which is the element of music that plays with time, not with pitch (as is the case with notes and pitches on the staff). We use this measure precisely for the duration of each figure, so we say that a figure X lasts “X times”. In order to read and write music, you need to memorize these symbols and the amount of times they last.

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As we have mentioned before, we have two basic shapes: the notes and the silences. Both the sounds and the absence of these are necessary to create dynamic and varied music. The notes are all those sounds that are written on the staff with a certain height and have a defined pitch (do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, si, do). On the other hand, silences are sound pauses or waiting bars, the absence of a note.

The symbols of a note or rest have a defined anatomy that helps you identify them. The drawing consists of 3 parts in the case of the notes: cletter, stem and bracket. Depending on the shape of these parts, we recognize the figure and they do not necessarily have all 3. In the case of silences we have defined symbols that we must also learn to recognize.

Duration of musical figures

This is the list of musical figures basic and its duration:

• Round = 4 times
• White= 2 times
• Black= 1 time
• Quaver = 1/2 time
• Semiquaver = 1/4 time

Duration of silences

• Silence of round = 4 times
• Silence of white = 2 times
• Silence of black = 1 time
• Eighth note silence = 1/2 time
• Semi-eighth note silence = 1/4 time

It is important that you remember that although these are the basic musical figures, there are many others, as well as variations such as the punctilio. If you are more curious about this, you can read this article right on our page.

Another element that you can find to alter the duration of a note is the musical tie. Since the round is usually the longest musical figure in the most common works, we will talk a little about this element.

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The round lasts 4 times and that is usually the maximum duration of many works, since the 4/4 metric is one of the most frequently used (if you are curious about the metric or time signature, We also have an article for it!). In this case, when we want a note to last longer than the measure allows, we resort to using the musical ligature.

In writing the ligature is a curved line connecting two musical figures. When this happens, the duration of both figures is added. Ligature can be used with any combination of musical figures. In addition to being a tool for visual organization at times (to make reading easier), the main use of ligature is to join two notes that are in different measures. It is in this way that we manage to make a note last for a long time, for several measures.

Now that you know the musical figure of the round and the silence of round, among other knowledge, you can start practicing your musical reading and writing songs and works!

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