Announcements

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Announcements

• Mini Homework 4 due Friday.
• Quiz 1 Wednesday, September 18.
• Hearing 1 Friday, September 20.
• (Drill sections will not meet on September 20.)

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Rhythm and Meter

• Major classifications of time signatures (a.k.a.
  meters)
• Simple meters have two subdivisions per beat.
• Compound meters have three subdivisions per beat.

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Rhythm and Meter

• In simple meters
• The top number (2, 3, or 4) indicates the number
  of beats in one measure.
• The bottom number indicates the type of note that
  gets one beat. (Refer to p. 17 for note types.)
• Rhythmic Trees on p. 98 show how shorter or
  longer durations can be derived.
• (Drill work on p. 106)

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Rhythm and Meter

• Dotted notes
• A dot following a note adds half the value of
  that note to its value.
• How many quarter notes in a dotted half note?
• There are two quarters in a normal half note
• So half the value of a half note is one quarter
• So a dotted half note is as long as three quarter
  notes.

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Rhythm and Meter

• In compound meters
• The beat value is typically a dotted note of some
  sort.
• The top number (6, 9, or 12) must be divided by
  three to tell how many beats are in the measure.
• The bottom number indicates the type of note that
  gets one subdivision of the beat.
• (Drill work on p. 107)

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Other rhythmic topics...

• Ties
• Dots
• Common and cut time
• Anacrusis (pick-up notes)
• Conducting!

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INTERVALS Parts and Procedures

• The term interval refers to the distance in
  pitch between any two notes.
• Intervals get larger as notes get further apart
  on the keyboard.
• Intervals get smaller as notes get closer
  together on the keyboard.
• There are two parts to any given interval
• an ordinal number (two exceptions)
• a qualitative name
• When identifying or building intervals, follow
  the procedure given hereespecially the ORDER!

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How to identify intervals

• 1. Figure out the ordinal number.
• count lines and spaces from the first note to
  the second.
• ALWAYS COUNT THE FIRST NOTE AS 1!

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Some Practice...
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2. Figure out the intervals family

• Seconds
• Thirds
• Sixths
• Sevenths

• Unisons
• Fourths
• Fifths
• Octaves

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3. And now, the quality of the interval

• IF the HIGHER note is in the LOWER notes major
  scale, then the interval is MAJOR or PERFECT.
• If the interval is a 2, 3, 6, or 7, then its
  major (M).
• If the interval is a 1, 4, 5, or 8, then its
  perfect (P).
• Theres no such thing as a P2, P3, P6, or P7.
• Likewise, theres no such thing as a M1, M4, M5,
  or M8.
• (Drill work with intervals)

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Interval Quality Control(also in packet, p. 46.)

• 1, 4, 5, 8
• Augmented (A or )
• PERFECT (P)
• Diminished (d or )

• 2, 3, 6, 7
• Augmented (A or )
• MAJOR (Mcapital M!)
• Minor (mlowercase m!)
• Diminished (d or )
• LARGER intervals appear at the TOP of this chart.
• SMALLER intervals appear at the BOTTOM of this
  chart.
• Intervals are altered by chromatic half steps to
  move up or down the chart.

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Two ways to alter an interval

• Alter the top note
• lowering the top note makes the interval smaller.
• raising the top note makes the interval larger.
• Alter the bottom note
• lowering the bottom note makes the interval
  larger.
• raising the bottom note makes the interval
  smaller.
• ALWAYS KEEP THE SAME LETTER NAMESUSE CHROMATIC
  HALF STEPS!
• (Drill work with intervals)

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Hints and Reminders

• For the moment were only concerned with Perfect,
  Major, and Minor intervals.
• DHS m2, DWS M2
• Three-step process
• 1. Figure out the ordinal number.
• 2. Place the interval in a family.
• 3. Assign it a quality using knowledge of major
  scales.
• (Try some more)

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Application / Synthesis

• Mozart Concerto 3 for Horn, K.447, II (course
  packet, p. 97)
• Identify interval between two pitches
• Find and label all minor 3rds in mm. x-y
• Other activities?

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Announcements

• Mini Homework 4 due Friday.
• Quiz 1 Wednesday, September 18.
• Hearing 1 Friday, September 20.
• (Drill sections will not meet on September 20.)