PITCH

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PITCH

• It refers to the highness or lowness of each
  sound or the placement of whole melodies.

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PITCH

• Direction
• movement up, down or the same.
• Intervals
• between pitches, may be steps, skips or jumps.

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PITCH

• Range
• how far the distance is between high and low
  sounds.
• Phrases
• melodic patterns that in simple songs are usually
  indicated by where one would naturally take a
  breath when singing.

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PITCH

• ORDER OF CONCEPTS
• s m tone call responses and simple chants (Grade
  1)
• s l s m tone call responses and simple songs
  (Grade 1 2)
• add instruments tuned and untuned if possible
  (Grade 1 2)
• d r m songs with instruments (Grade 2 and 3)

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PITCH

• Scales
• Patterns of tones and semi tones.
• The distance between any two tones on a piano
  keyboard is a semitone.
• The distance between c and d is an example of a
  tone.

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PENTATONIC SCALE

• Definition
• It is a pattern of whole tones and tones and a
  half. The pattern is
• Syllables
• d r m s l d
• Interval between pitches
• tone, tone, tone 1/2, tone, tone 1/2)

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PENTATONIC SCALE

• Pentatonic Songs
• Musicanada 3 Rocky Mountain p. 21, Iroquois
  Lullaby p. 23, Jim Along Josie p. 32, Little
  Tommy Tinker p. 31
• Musicanada 4 Canoe Song p. 14, Liza Jane p. 36
  Sourwood Mountain p. 79
• Others Turn the Glasses Over, Jingle At the
  Windows, Burnie Bee, Bell Horses, Lucy Locket,
  Thanks a Lot

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PENTATONIC SCALE HANDSIGNS
d l s m r d
The handsigns for the pentatonic scale are d r
m s l d.
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MAJOR SCALE

• It is a pattern of tones and semi tones. The
  syllable pattern is
• d r m f s l t d.
• Interval patterntone, tone, half tone, tone,
  tone, tone, half tone.

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MAJOR SCALE

• Major Scale examples
• Five Little Pumpkins, p. 26 and Do-Re-Mi p. 38
  Musicanada 3, Old Joe Clarke, Wee Sing, Fun and
  Folk, Christmas Bells, p. 50 Musicanada 4

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MAJOR SCALE HANDSIGNS
d t l s f m r d

• The handsigns for the major scale are
• d r m f s l t d.

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MINOR SCALE

• What you need to know
• what it sounds like
• what clues are in the music
• what it often starts on
• what is the warm up
• d t l d m d l One two ready sing

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MINOR SCALE

• Minor Scale Examples Iroquois Lullaby p. 23 and
  Skin and Bones p. 25, Someone p. 108, Musicanada
  3, Halloween p. 28 and Drill Ye Tarriers Drill
  p. 64, Musicanada 4, Shalom Shaverim p. 147 and
  Huron Carol p. 64 Musicanada 5.

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MINOR SCALE HANDSIGNS
l s f m r d t l

• The handsigns are
• l, t, d, r, m,f, si, l

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PITCH KEY QUESTIONS

• Can the students identify higher pitches from
  lower pitches?
• Do the intervals in the melody give a jagged or
  smooth feeling?

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PITCH KEY QUESTIONS

• What effect is created by the tonality chosen for
  the melody?
• Does the message in the melody match the message
  in the words?
• Can the children make the appropriate handsigns?

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PITCH CONTENT

• A pitch may be higher or lower.
• Melody
• is a series of tones sounding one after the
  other in an expressive, organized way.
• Tones in melody are called pitches.
• They have a shape or contour.

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PITCH CONTENT

• The shape can have repeated tones, steps between
  tones, jumps or skips.
• Melodies can have pitches that are far apart.
• Melodies may use tones from a scale or home tone.

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PITCHACTIVITIES

• Differentiate between high and low sounds.
• Represent contrasts through movement and mapping.
• Sing melodies to sol-fah syllables.

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PITCHACTIVITIES

• Follow the rise and fall of familiar written
  music.
• Sing using standard hand signs.
• Use a modulator for pitch.

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PITCHACTIVITIES

• Relate melody to scale patterns.
• Improvise a melody for a lullaby or a march.
• Improvise a melody for a commercial. (toy, cereal)

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PITCHACTIVITIES

• sing a song and link melody to feelings of lyrics
  
• discuss appropriateness of rising and falling
  melody
• respond to pitch through hand mapping, body
  mapping or on paper.