Suggested Learning Resources
3) Online Reading: Sibelius Academy http://www2.siba.fi/muste1/index.php?id=96&la=en
- Sometimes a piece of music will start with an incomplete measure.
- The incomplete measure is not counted as measure 1. Rather, the first
measure containing all beats in the time signature (through a combination of notes
and/or rests) is marked as measure 1.
- Notes contained in the initial incomplete measure are called the anacrusis,
or sometimes called the pick-up notes.
- Notes that appear as an anacrusis of an incomplete measure at the start
of a piece are counted in a manner that assumes the missing rhythmic values are missing
from the beginning of the measure. (ex. in 4/4 piece containing a 1 eighth note anacrusis;
that eighth note falls on the & of 4)
http://youtu.be/b9PmAagcpIY?t=7m9s
Objective 1.22: Explain the concept of anacrusis, and identify anacrusis in notated
music