MUE 3210 Music in the Elementary Classroom

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MUE 3210Music in the Elementary Classroom

• Pitch and Melody

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Lets sing an American Classic with two
chordsShoo, Fly!
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Rhythm

• Rhythm organizing sense of motion that occurs as
  music progresses in time the pattern of sounds
  and silences in music
• Important definitions rhythm, beat, tempo

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Rhythm

• Beat recurrent (regular) throb or pulse that
  makes a person want to tap or clap in time with
  the music
• Tempo the speed of the beat

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Rhythm (Chapter 4 Review)

• Meter also called time signature, meter is the
  organizing of beats into patterns
• Meters are written as one number over another
• The top number represents the number of beats in
  a measure
• The bottom number represents what type of note
  gets one beat

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Rhythm Note values

• Note Values the duration of sound and silence
  in music is measured not by the clock but rather
  by the passing of consecutive beats
• The duration of a note is called its value

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Rhythm (Chapter 4)
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The Staff and the Treble Clef

• The Staff is a five-line, four-space symbol
  system used to capture music in writing
• The Treble Clef defines the function of the lines
  and spaces of the staff
• It is useful to remember the names of the lines
  and spaces of the staff by assigning phrases with
  words that begin with the letter names

Every
Good
Boy
Does
Fine
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The Staff and the Treble Clef

• There are several phrases to help you remember
  the lines of the Treble Clef
• Heres one that is popular in Memphis, Tennessee

Elviss
Guitar
Broke
Down
Friday
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The Staff and the Treble Clef

• Here is a personal favorite

Every
Good
Boy
Deserves
Fudge!
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The Staff and the Treble Clef

• The space notes are easy to remember they spell
  FACE

F A C
E
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The Staff

• Ledger lines
• - Lines that extend the staff up and down
• - To the children these are the invisible lines
  of the staff that only show up when they are
  needed

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Pitch

• Pitch refers to how high or low a note sounds
• The staff provides fixed reference points to show
  pitches visually
• The clef is a symbol placed on the staff to
  indicate the pitches assigned to each line and
  space
• The treble clef is the one most often used when
  writing songs, especially for children

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Pitch

• The seven possible pitch names are A,B,C,D,E,F,G
• After G, the letters repeat as many times as
  possible
• An octave is the distance between two notes of
  the same name (A to A)

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Pitch

• Some notes require a modifying symbol
• The symbol indicates what will be done to the
  pitch of that note
• Sharp - raises the pitch of the note one half
  step
• Flat - lowers the pitch of the note one half
  step
• Natural cancels a sharp or a flat previously
  applied or refers to the white key notes

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Pitch

• On a keyboard, the white keys are the natural
  notes
• The black keys are the sharp and flat notes
• The sharp of any white key is the nearest black
  key on the right side
• The flat of any white key is the nearest black
  key on the left side

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Pitch

• A scale is a series of pitches covering one
  octave that moves up or down according to a
  specified pattern of intervals
• Interval the distance from one pitch to another
• Scales are basis for all melodies
• Most common forms are the major and minor scales
• Modality Major happy Minor sad

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The Major Scale
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7
Half step between pitches 7 and 8
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5
4
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Half step between pitches 3 and 4
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Intervals of the Major scale W W H W W W H
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Pitch

• Key signature sharps or flat to the right of
  the clef and before the time signature that
  indicate what notes will be affected by sharps or
  flats throughout the entire piece
• Shoo Fly is in F major there is one flat in
  the Key Signature, B-flat (Bb), which means that
  all of the Bs in the piece are B-flats

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Pitch

• Harmony the simultaneous sounding of pitches
• A triad consists of three notes sounded at the
  same time
• Most common are major (from major scale) and
  minor (from minor scale)
• Two kinds of harmony consonant and dissonant
• Consonant pleasant to the ear, wide intervals
• Dissonant grating to the ear, close intervals

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Harmony Basic Chords
C Major Scale
I Tonic Triad
IV Subdominant Triad
I Tonic Triad
V Dominant Triad
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Lets Sing Shoo Fly in harmony!
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Lets look at the score for Shoo Fly for some
of the characteristics weve discussed today
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Key Signature 1 Flat F major
Harmony 2 notes at once
Harmony 2 notes at once
I Tonic
V Dominant
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Whats Coming Up?

• Read Chapter 7
• Test 1, next Tuesday, May 27th
• Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 14, 15, 16
• 30 multiple choice questions