Take a look at some form of musical score, you will notice that at the beginning of every line, there are a collection of signs made up of either hash-tag signs, or lowercase letter b’s (unless ...

Work toward sight-reading musical scores, from key signatures, chord and note symbols to articulation and dynamics, with video and sheet music examples.

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. Only the order of tones and semitones is different. Both keys have the same key signature, shown here:. Because they ...

This is the fourth movement (‘Valse’) of Ligeti’s Musica Ricercata – but can you work out what key signature Ligeti has written it in? You may have noticed that the movement doesn’t seem to use many ...

For example, C major (with no key signature) is relative to A minor (also with no key signature). Follow this process through ...