Minute a Day Stage 1 Lesson 1
 

 

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Stage 1
Lesson 1    Lesson 2    Lesson 3    Lesson 4   
Lesson 5    Lesson 6    Lesson 7    Lesson 8   
Lesson 9    Lesson 10    Lesson 11    Lesson 12

Stage 2    Stage 3    Stage 4    Stage 5    Stage 6    Stage 7

Here you can learn how to read music.
Free music theory lessons online.

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Learning to read written music is like learning to read a written language.
The sounds of words are written with letters.
The sounds of music are written in notes.

Notes have been used to write down the sounds of music since ancient times.
Two different systems of letters were used to write down the instrumental and the vocal music of ancient Greece.
Boethius (A.D. 470 – A.D. 525), a Roman philosopher, applied the first 15 letters of the alphabet to the notes in use at the end of the Roman period.

Here is what a single note sounds like:  This is the note A played on a piano.
 Click the play arrow button to hear it. You may have to click twice.

 

Here is the note A written in modern notation

A

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