Teaching singing with simplified musical scores

Answer 1

The following is the knowledge related to teaching singing:

** 1. Understanding musical notes **
The musical notes in the numbered musical notation were represented by the seven natural sound levels in the mode, namely 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 (corresponding to do, re, mi, fa, so, la, and si). Adding a dot above the note represented a high pitch of 8 degrees, adding a dot below it represented a low pitch of 8 degrees, and adding two dots represented a high or low pitch of two octaves. The notes without dots were mid-tones. At the beginning of the music (or where it needed to be adjusted), a key sign was used to mark the height of a sound, such as "1 = C" or "1 = D". This helped to infer the pitch of other sounds.

** 2. Time of note **
1. ** Basic notes and beats **
- The simplified musical score used quarter notes as the basic notes, and quarter notes were usually called a beat.
- The small horizontal lines behind the basic notes were the time increment lines, and each time increment line represented the time value unit of a basic note (that is, one beat). For example, if a quarter note was one beat, it would become two beats if it was followed by a time-increasing line, and so on.
- The small horizontal lines below the basic notes were time reduction lines, and each time reduction line reduced the time value of the basic notes by half. A note with a line below the number was called an eighth note, which was half a beat, and a note with two lines was called a sixteenth note, which was a quarter beat.
2. ** Added notes **
- Dots can be used to change the time value of basic notes. Dots can only be used for quarter notes and notes smaller than quarter notes. The dotted effect was to extend the duration of the previous note by half.

** 3. Rest **
The simplified musical score used 0 to represent rest, and the value of 0 was equivalent to a quarter note (that is, a beat). The three methods of changing the time value of the basic notes, such as increasing the time line, decreasing the time line, and adding dots, could also be used for the rest.

** 4. Modal related **
1. ** Pentatonic **
- The pentatonic form was composed of five tones (do→so→re→la→mi) and was widely used in ancient China and folk music.
- Each of these five tones could be used as the main tone of the mode to produce five modes: Gongdiao (12356 (1)), Shangdiao (23561 (2)), Jiaodiao (35612 (3)), Zhengdiao (56123 (5)), and Yudiao (61235 (6)). Adding a high in front of the name of the mode forms the complete name of the mode.

When teaching the simplified musical score, the first thing to do was to let the learner know the basic notes, time values, rests, and the relevant knowledge of the modes. Then, they would practice singing according to the notes and rhythms marked by the simplified musical score. For example, he would start with simple rhythms and numbered musical scores with fewer notes, and gradually increase the difficulty.

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