Score: Printed form of a big and complete piece of music; a formal way to express a piece of complete sheet music.
Staff(stave): The foundation to determine the notes, it’s made up of 5 spaces and 4 lines. Bass staff is the part your left-hand plays, while the treble staff is the part your right-hand plays. The great staff/stave or grand staff is a pair of staff.
Measure(bar): A group or a unit of the score that contains a specific amount of beats.
Notes: Symbols that are placed on the staff that indicates the length(how long you have to hold the key for), tone, pitch, sound.
Clef: Symbols(usual at the beginning) that determines the pitch of the notes
- Treble clef(g clef): This symbol is usually placed at the higher staff. Most notes in the treble clef have a higher pitch, notes that are above the middle key.
- Bass clef(f clef): This symbol is usually placed at the lower staff. Most notes in the bass clef have a lower pitch, notes that are below the middle key.
Time signatures(meter):it's a symbol that indicates the amount of beats in one measure.
- There are many types of signatures
- Top number is the amount of beats in every measure
- Bottom number is note that gets 1 beat/count. For example, 4 means a quarter note gets one beat and 2 means a half note gets one beat.
