Download File - Woodland Middle School Music

 Elements of Music:
 Rhythm (duration/length of the notes)
 Dynamics (volume)
 Melody (pitch – up or down, high or low)
 Harmony (what sounds good with the melody?)
 Tone color (what instrument, what register)
 Texture (one voice, lots of voices, instruments? thick or thin)
 Form (How is the piece set up)?
 Beat Vs. Rhythm
 Beat: Steady and regular pulse in music (like your heartbeat or the tick-tock of a clock)
 Rhythm: flow of music through time. Rhythm is built on the beat but does not need to
be regular and steady (like a drum solo)
 Beat vs. rhythm review:
 Beat stays the same, rhythm changes
 Quarter notes: 1 beat (ta)
 8th notes: ½ beat each (ti), often appear together
 Half notes: 2 beats each (ta-a)
Practice: Find the beat of Row Your Boat (pat on legs) – keep it steady, don’t speed up
Find the rhythm: clap the rhythm (not the same as the beat!)
 Melody – what are the main notes or pitches that make up a song? (usually 1 line of
music, all of the others are “backup” or “harmony)
 Famous melodies
 Ode to Joy (Beethoven)
 Queen of the Night Aria (voice) (Mozart)
 Happy Birthday
 Somewhere Over the Rainbow (voice)
 Harmony - the combination of different musical notes played or sung at the same time
to produce a pleasing sound
 Dissonance – notes sounded together that have a displeasing sound – usually on
purpose, to provide musical suspense for the listener
 Octaves & Intervals
 We only have 7 note names in the musical alphabet (ABCDEFG)
 You can have a high A and a low A, and a lower A, and the lowest A. They are all still A.
 Sometimes, we have intervals, 2 DIFFERENT notes played at the same time. For
example, A and C. A and C are a minor 3rd away, (A, B, C = 3 full notes away) and C and G
are a perfect 5th away from each other
 Tone Color (not blue or pink!)
 Identify
 Classify
 Explain
 Describe
 Range/Register and Role
 Texture
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9b_oVBQKs3w
 Monophonic – 1 melody line, nothing else
 Homophonic (everyone has the same rhythm, but not always the same notes)
 Polyphonic – different notes AND different rhythms
 Form
 Form uses lots of letters! ABCD, etc
 Form: how is the piece set up? The first part of the song is A. If that part of the song
(melody) ever comes back, it is A again. A new part would be B, then the next new part
is C, etc.
 Form (how is the piece of music set up)?
 Strophic - AAAA
 Binary – AB (sometimes AABB)
 Ternary - ABA
 Rondo (A keeps coming back) ABACAD etc
 Arch - ABCBA
 Sonata Form - Exposition: --- Development --- Recapitulation