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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)? • • 1

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) 2

Let’s practice! • Bon Jovi - Livin’ on a Prayer • https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=b. Xsm. GSn q 3 l. E • The Beatles – Hey Jude • https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=NWP_lqd _8 M 0 • Survivor – Eye of the Tiger • https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=QEjg. Ph 4 S Em. U 3

• • Beat vs. Rhythm body percussion The beat stays the same But the rhythm Changes with the words! 4

Beat vs. rhythm review • • Beat stays the same, rhythm changes Quarter notes: 1 beat (ta) 8 th 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!) 5

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) https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=dp. VV 9 j. S h. Ez. U • Happy Birthday • Somewhere Over the Rainbow (voice) • https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=PSZxm. Z m. Bfn. U 6

Harmony • 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 • The Entertainer: (Melody in green and to the right, harmony in blue)https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=PSZxm. Z m. Bfn. U • Toccata and Fugue, D minor • https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=b. OWi 8 t. Of 5 FA 7

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 are a minor 3 rd away, (A, B, C = 3 full notes away) and C and G are a perfect 5 th away from each other 8

Show me 1 for mostly melody (1 note at a time), 2 for mostly harmony (2+ notes at a time) • https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=ho 7796 au 8 U (Jackson 5 – ABC) • https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=f. J 9 r. Uz. I Mc. ZQ (Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody) • This one switches back and forth, so you will have to change your answers as you go (Pentatonix – Cruisin for a Bruisin) • https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=a_V 6 z. Al. Beo 9

Tone Color • Please have your notebook or binder with paper, a pencil, and your water bottle. • Spit out your gum and put food and phones away! • Use the restroom or get a drink BEFORE class begins. Thanks! 10

Tone Color (not blue or pink!) • • • Identify Classify Explain Describe Range/Register and Role • https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=Lgqcy. Sa 4 I 9 w (Australian lady explains for us) 11

Instrument Families (Orchestra) • https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=v. Q 95 KU WCGT 0 • What is a trumpet? Saxophone? What do you think the voice is closest to? 12

Examples! • https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=e. CCjv. Sjw Jwk • https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=l. Ex. W 80 s Xs. Hs • https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=Ry 4 Bzonl Vlw 13

Texture • https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=Qo. LWv. T 1 i. Mo. A • https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=W-hr. Bh. A 4 Xk. M • https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=PCn. RYj 3 l. Ml. Q • https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=Dyo 7 jza. CUhk • https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=vn 9 p. QGf. CFSo https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=9 b_o. VBQKs 3 w • Monophonic – 1 melody line, nothing else • Homophonic (everyone has the same rhythm, but not always the same notes) • Polyphonic – different notes AND different rhythms 14

Rhythm Review Please have your notebooks & pencils ready, gum out, and use the restroom/get a drink before class begins. It’s Friday – please don’t make me take your locker break for talking, disrespect, tardiness, or unpreparedness! • 8 th notes = ½ beat each • • Quarter notes = 1 beat Half = 2 beats Dotted half = 3 beats Whole = 4 beats 15

Form • Form uses lots of letters! ABCD, etc • Form means, 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 C, then the next new part is D, etc. 16

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 17

Listen to Examples! • My Country, Tis of Thee https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=s. N 2 I 6 vdzgts • O Susanna https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=j. Yi. Xy. Zwg. PB 8 • Twinkle 18

Whats and Whys of Music? • https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=x 4 ct 1 j. RN 7 Bo • Organized sound • Does it have to be “pretty”? Do people have the same idea of what “pretty” is? • When do you hear music? _____ 19

Why and How Do We Make Music? • https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=o. ANP 3 W V 4 bn. E Your Brain on Music: • https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=g 6 C 4 Nm. K 0 f. M • Some reasons we creat music are…? 20

Rondo Form – How to Create Use the restroom, get a drink, put away electronics, and spit out your gum/food BEFORE class starts! https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=k. M 3 Sv 8 cg GEw (classical music example) Class Rondo: A B A C A 21

How to Create your OWN – 8 beats each (groups of 3 ish) • Rondo Form • Try “ABACA” Write a rhythm for A • Write a NEW rhythm for B • Bring the A section back again • Write a NEW rhythm for C, different from A and B • Bring the A section back again • PRESENT 22

What is music? If you had to define it, what would you say? • https: //www. youtube. com/watc h? v=x 4 ct 1 j. RN 7 Bo • What is form in music? Your Brain on Music: • https: //www. youtube. com/watc h? v=g 6 -C 4 Nm. K 0 f. M 23