Measures, Time Signatures, Reading Music

What is the purpose of the top number in a time signature?

• How many notes in each measure

• How many measures in the song

• How many beats in each measure

• What kind of song it is

What is the purpose of the bottom number in a time signature?

• How many beats in each measure

• Where the beats are in the measure

• Which note gets the beat

• What beat gets the measure

How many lines are on a music staff?

• 1

• 3

• 4

• 5

When you split a staff, the smaller units are called___________.

• smaller staffs

• minor staffs

• measures

• staffs

What pitch is shown here?

• A

• G

• B

• E

What pitch is shown here?

• E

• F

• C

• A

What pitch is shown here?

• F

• A

• C

• E

What pitch is shown here?

• A

• B

• C

• D