Music is a language

It can express thoughts and even tell stories-musical stories. When we hear a story we listen sentence by sentence, NOT letter by letter. So it is with music. Single notes by themselves mean nothing. Only when the notes are arranged into musical sentences do they take on a definite meaning. Musical sentences are called PHRASES. Learn to think of your music phrase by phrases.

MUSICAL FORM

Because it is built up of many well ordered PATTERNS, music has often been compared to architecture. We have in music, Melody Patterns, Rhythmical Patterns, Harmony Patterns and (in piano music) Finger Patterns. The ability to recognize PATTERNS is very important. It makes for easier Sight-Reading, quicker Memorizing and more intelligent Interpretation.