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Music Notes for grade 5
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Processional ~ music for a procession or parade.
(wedding/graduation)
Grease ~ The Musical created in the 1970’s but took place in the 1950’s.
1950’s
Saddle shoes
Greased hair
Poodle skirts
Drive-in Movies
Scat ~ singing nonsense syllables.
Tempo ~ the speed of the beat (how fast or slow a song is)
Allegro – fast
Largo / Lento – Slow
Presto – very fast
Moderato – medium or walking tempo
Dynamics ~ the louds and softs of music.
Forte – Loud – f
Piano – soft – p
Fortissimo – very loud – ff
Pianissimo – very soft – pp
Mezzo – half – m
Form in Music ~ is the different sections of a song.
Example: Twinkle Twinkle Little Star = ABA form
The 4 Voices
Speaking voice
Whispering voice
Yelling voice
Singing Voice
The Symphony Orchestra
Brass
Strings
Woodwind
Percussion
Music Notes
Lines and Spaces of the Treble Clef
Dotted Rhythms
A dot after a note equals half of the value of the preceding note.
Dotted whole note =’s 6 beats
Dotted half note = ‘s 3 beats
Dotted quarter note =’s 1 and a half beats
Music Notes for Grade 6
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Tone Color ~ The unique sound of an instrument or voice.
Coda ~ the ending section of a song.
Big Band ~ (musical group from the 1930’s & 1940’s)
Band
(No string Instruments)
vs.
Orchestra
Form in Music ~ The different sections of a song.
Verse/Refrain form ~
(used in songs on the radio) = AB
March form ~
(any song played by a marching band) = Introduction AA BB Trio Trio
Trio ~ 3 instruments playing at the same time.
Samba ~ Music from Brazil
Samba Bateria ~ a musical group from Brazil that play percussion
instruments.
Conga ~ A dance from Brazil.
Melodic Contour ~ the shape of a melody (connect the dots w/ music notes)
Step, skip, leap, repeat
Scale ~ A series of 8 pitches that ascend or descend from a letter to the
same letter. Example: C D E F G A B C
Pitch ~ the highness or lowness of a tone.
Tempo ~ the speed of the beat (how fast or slow a song is)
Allegro – fast
Largo / Lento – Slow
Presto – very fast
Moderato – medium or walking tempo
Dynamics ~ the louds and softs of music.
Forte – Loud – f
Piano – soft – p
Fortissimo – very loud – ff
Pianissimo – very soft – pp
Mezzo – half – m
The Keyboard Connection
Musical Visual Artists:
Renoir: Junne Filles au Piano (2 girls at a piano)
Picasso: Violin and Piano & 3 Musicians
Van Gogh:
Organ
Manuals ~ Keyboards
Stops ~ redirect the airflow to various pipes to change the sound of the
instrument. (Example: manual 1 trumpet, manual 2 flute, foot pedals organ)
Pedal Point ~ a note held for a long time under fast scales and changing
chords.
Harpsichord
Popular during the lifetime of George Washington.
Hand crafted.
Strings are plucked to produce sound.
Piano
88 Keys
Black keys are grouped into sets of 2’s and 3s.
Types include: Grand, Baby Grand, Upright, & Spinet
Pachelbel’s Canon in D
Canon ~ a melody that is imitated in one or more parts.
Carl Orff ~ A GERMAN COMPOSER who rewrote Carmina Burana in 1936
Medieval Music used shape notes.
During Medieval time, Monks who lived in Monasteries safeguarded music &
poetry.
Zoltan Kodaly ~ Hungarian church musician, created solfa (pitch syllables) to
help his choir learn music faster.
DO, RE, MI, FA, SO, LA, TI. DO
Music Notes
Lines and Spaces of the Treble Clef
Dotted Rhythms
A dot after a note equals half of the value of the preceding note.
Dotted whole note =’s 6 beats
Dotted half note = ‘s 3 beats
Dotted quarter note =’s 1 and a half beats
Music Notes for Grade 7
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Music Notes
Lines and Spaces of the Treble Clef
Dotted Rhythms
A dot after a note equals half of the value of the preceding note.
Dotted whole note =’s 6 beats
Dotted half note = ‘s 3 beats
Dotted quarter note =’s 1 and a half beats
Tempo ~ the speed of the beat (how fast or slow a song is)
Allegro – fast
Largo / Lento – Slow
Presto – very fast
Moderato – medium or walking tempo
Dynamics ~ the louds and softs of music.
Forte – Loud – f
Piano – soft – p
Fortissimo – very loud – ff
Pianissimo – very soft – pp
Mezzo – half – m
Instruments of the Orchestra Review
Tone Color- The unique sound of an instrument or voice.
Nicoli-Rimskey Korsakov
1844-1908
Russian Composer of orchestral music.
Known for using tone color.
Ternary ~ ABA form
Texture in music ~ Layers of sound
Monophonic ~ one melody
Homophonic ~ 2 or more melodies
Polyphonic ~ melody with accompaniment
The 4 Voice Parts in a Choir
Soprano
Alto
Tenor
Bass
Guitar Unit 101
Lines and Spaces of the Bass Clef
American Musical Theatre
1900’s: combine singing, acting, and dancing.
Rodgers and Hammerstein II
South Pacific
The King and I
The Sound of Music
Cinderella
Oklahoma!
Leonard Bernstein: West Side Story
(rival gangs) Jets vs. Sharks
Maria’s brother is in one gang and boyfriend in the other.
Plot is based on the Shakespeare novel Romeo & Juliet.
Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber
Phantom of the Opera
Cats ---T.S. Eliot (creator of novels with multiple endings)
Conducting 101
Conducting in 2 or duple meter
Time signatures: 2 2 6
4 2 8
Copy hand patterns from a friend.
Conducting in 3 for triple meter
Time Signatures:
3 6 3 3
4 8 2 16
Copy hand patterns from a friend.
American Popular Music 1950 – present webquest
Music Notes for Grade 8
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Reggae ~
Ska ~
Dancehall ~
1970’s- Bob Marley’s lyrics contained political and social statements.
Sampling
vs.
Toasting
Taking an excerpt of a song
Rapping over an existing
background music.
and inserting it within your own composition.
Calypso ~
Syncopation ~
Scale ~ a series of pitches in a particular order (usually 8 – that begin and
end on the same letter)
Chord ~ 2 or more notes played at the same time.
Tonic = I
Sub-Dominant = IV
Dominant = V
Musical time eras
Medieval (black plague)
Renaissance (rebirth)
Baroque
Classical
Romantic
Contemporary (1901-2000)
Conducting 102
Baton ~
Copy hand conducting patterns from a friend.
Conducting in 2 or duple meter
Time signatures: 2 2 6
4 2 8
Conducting in 3 or triple meter
Time Signatures: 3 6 3 3
4 8 2 16
Conducting in 4 or quadruple meter
Time Signatures: 4 4 8
4 8 16
Conducting in 6 ( slow tempo)
Time Signatures: 6 6 6
16 4 8
Irregular meter~ changing time signatures within a composition.
In 5
In 7
Time Signature: 5
7
4
4
Review:
Music Notes
Lines and Spaces of the treble and bass clef.
Dotted Rhythms
A dot after a note equals half of the value of the preceding note.
Dotted whole note =’s 6 beats
Dotted half note = ‘s 3 beats
Dotted quarter note =’s 1 and a half beats
Tempo ~ the speed of the beat (how fast or slow a song is)
Allegro – fast
Largo / Lento – Slow
Presto – very fast
Moderato – medium or walking tempo
Dynamics ~ the louds and softs of music.
Forte – Loud – f
Piano – soft – p
Fortissimo – very loud – ff
Pianissimo – very soft – pp
Mezzo – half – m