Suggested Learning Resources

1) YFIO

2) Video Lesson: YouTube High Score Music Theory Channel http://youtu.be/rniVwC3b5Yw 


3) Online Reading: Sibelius Academy http://www2.siba.fi/muste1/index.php?id=96&la=en


4) Interactive Lesson:


Music Theory QuickThink: 

-          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)

Objective 1.22: Examples in Music: YouTube

http://youtu.be/b9PmAagcpIY?t=7m9s

Objective 1.22: Explain the concept of anacrusis, and identify anacrusis in notated music