Start in music
The prelude is a typical phenomenon in music. Pieces can begin with a full measure or with a prelude. It's easy to see when you know what to look out for.
What is a measure in music?
- When you have notes in front of you, you can easily identify a measure.
- Bars are marked in the music with short vertical lines.
- Anything between two barlines is a bar. An exception is the first bar of a piece, as there is no bar line at the beginning.
- Instead, you will find a time signature at the beginning of each piece. Common time signatures are 4/4, 3/4, 2/4 or 3/8 or 6/8. In addition, there are of course other, but not so common, time signatures.
- A 3/4 bar, for example, is always three quarters long - that means that there are always three quarters between two bar lines. Of course, it can also be that you have a half and a quarter or z. B. see six eighths in 3/4 time. What is important here is not the note value of the individual note, but the value of all notes in the measure taken together.
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This is how you recognize preludes
With the basic knowledge you can easily recognize the beginning of the music.
- An upbeat is one or more notes that are before the first measure and which, taken together, do not correspond to the time signature of z. B. 4/4 result.
- It is important that it is always only the very first "bar" or deals with the very first notes in the piece.
- To recognize it, first look at the time signature. Then check whether the first is a full measure, i.e. whether it contains such note values as your time signature suggests. If this is not the case, it is a prelude.
- The last bar of a piece or of a section which is marked by a bold double line.
- The last measure is usually shorter than the time signature indicates. Because: the beginning and the last measure add up to a full measure.
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