{"id":26843,"date":"2017-05-03T13:17:39","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T11:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/?p=26843"},"modified":"2017-05-03T11:26:54","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T09:26:54","slug":"talking-about-music-in-french","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/talking-about-music-in-french\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking About Music In French"},"content":{"rendered":"

Listening to music is a fun and easy way to not only learn more, but also have fun while doing it! Singing along to Stromae<\/a> or Baptiste W. Hamon<\/a> hardly feels like studying, but it is an amazingly useful way to improve your French.<\/p>\n

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“Music<\/a>” by Brandon Glesbrecht on Flickr. LIcensed under CC BY 2.0.<\/p><\/div>\n

I have always loved music and used to be involved in music quite a bit when I was younger aux \u00c9tats-Unis<\/strong> (in the United States). Au lyc\u00e9e<\/strong> (in high school) I even studied la th\u00e9orie musicale<\/strong> (music theory)! I know some technical jargon about music\u2026 but only in English.<\/p>\n

When I became friends with Jean Guyomarc\u2019h<\/em><\/a> and wanted to talk about la musique<\/strong>, I realized I had no idea how to talk about le chiffrage de mesure, l’armure ou m\u00eame la partition<\/strong> (time signature, key signature, or even sheet music). In a confusing series of conversations I began to learn the difference between une ronde et une blanche<\/strong> (a whole note and a half note) in French.<\/p>\n

An interesting difference for me was that in France they don\u2019t use the same name for musical notes. That is, I learned the notes as A, B, C, D, E, F, G, but en France<\/strong> they use le solf\u00e8ge<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

Do R\u00e9 Mi Fa Sol La Si Do<\/p>\n

Rester en rythme<\/strong> (staying on time) is at least easy to understand since le m\u00e9tronome<\/strong> is the same in French and English, mais malheureusement<\/strong> (but unfortunately), many names for les instruments<\/strong> are very different. Par exemple<\/strong> (for example), a French horn isn\u2019t French en France<\/strong><\/a>, and the drums are la batterie<\/strong><\/a>!<\/p>\n

Learning about le vocabulaire musical fran\u00e7ais<\/strong> sometimes made the English words I already knew more interesting too. The clef<\/em> in treble clef<\/em> comes from an old way to write the word cl\u00e9<\/strong> and means key<\/em>!<\/p>\n

Le vocabulaire musical fran\u00e7ais<\/strong> still stumps me from time to time with new technical words and the names of instruments, but even without knowing all the words I can profiter de la musique<\/strong><\/a> (enjoy music)!<\/p>\n

Voici un vocabulaire de la musique :<\/strong><\/p>\n

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“music<\/a>” by vallgall on Flickr. Licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.<\/p><\/div>\n

Music Theory – La th\u00e9orie musicale
\nSheet Music – La partition
\nTreble Clef – La clef de sol
\nBass Clef – La clef de fa
\nKey Signature – L’armure
\nTime Signature – Le chiffrage de mesure
\n4\/4 Time – La mesure \u00e0 4\/4
\n3\/4 Time – La mesure \u00e0 3\/4
\n6\/8 Time – La mesure \u00e0 6\/8
\nKey – Le ton
\nIn the key of D Major – En r\u00e9 majeur
\nNote – La note
\nWhole Note – La ronde
\nHalf Note – La blanche
\nQuarter Note – La noire
\nEighth Note – La croche
\nRhythm – Le rythme
\nBeat – Le rythme
\nDrums – La batterie
\nFrench Horn – Le cor d’harmonie
\nString Instruments – Les instruments \u00e0 cordes
\nWind Instruments – Les instruments \u00e0 vent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\"\"

Listening to music is a fun and easy way to not only learn more, but also have fun while doing it! Singing along to Stromae or Baptiste W. Hamon hardly feels like studying, but it is an amazingly useful way to improve your French. I have always loved music and used to be involved in…<\/p>\n

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