Learning to Read Music
F05, S06, F06, S07
Music Faculty

Important for all students who wish to be musicians and don’t already have these skills, imperative for students with a music concentration; learning to read music is much like learning to read language. Students learn how to decipher graphic symbols for rhythm, pitch, dynamics, phrasing, and more—elements present in all music. This powerful Western system of musical notation with its graphic documentation of aural artistic expression represents one of the most amazing achievements of human imagination.