PITCH

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PITCH

• AGENDA
• Brainstorming Map
• Definitions
• Teaching order for pitches
• Pentatonic

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PITCH

• Teaching strategies
• Pitch maps
• Hand signs body signs
• Kinesthetic rhythm
• Pat clap patterns

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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
• 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

• N.B.
• Before we teach specific pitches we use pitch
  maps to show relative pitch.

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PITCH

• TEACHING ORDER FOR PITCHES
• s m tone call responses and simple chants (Grade
  1)
• s l s m tone call responses and simple songs
  (Grade 1 2)
• d r m songs with instruments (Grade 2 and 3)

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PITCH

• TEACHING ORDER FOR PITCHES
• s m tone call responses and simple chants (Grade
  1)

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PITCH

• TEACHING ORDER FOR PITCHES
• 2. s l s m tone call responses and simple songs
  (Grade 1 2)

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PITCH

• TEACHING ORDER FOR PITCHES
• 3. d r m songs with instruments (Grade 2 and
  3)

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PENTATONIC SCALE

• Definition
• It is a 5 note pattern of whole tones and tones
  and a half. It is the black notes on the piano.
  When any of these notes are played at the same
  time it makes a sound that is pleasant to the
  ear. The pattern is
• d r m s l (d)

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PENTATONIC SCALE HANDSIGNS
d l s m r d
The hand signs for the pentatonic scale are d
r m s l d.
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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 Head and Shoulders Baby, Jingle At the
  Windows, Burnie Bee, Bell Horses, Blue Bells,
  Thanks a Lot, Gitsigakomim Music Play 3 and 4

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PITCH

• RECAP
• Brainstorming Map
• Definitions
• Teaching order for pitches
• Pentatonic

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PITCH

• RECAP
• Teaching strategies
• Pitch maps
• Hand signs body signs
• Kinesthetic rhythm
• Pat clap patterns

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PITCH

• AGENDA
• Scales
• major scale, warm up and hand signs
• related songs
• minor scale, warm up and hand signs
• related songs

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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 because there is a black note in between.

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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

• Do lesson 24 Music Ace 1 to learn about major
  scales.
• Create C major Scale in Music Ace Doodle Pad
• Interval patterntone, tone, half tone, tone,
  tone, tone, half tone.

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MAJOR SCALE

• If you need to go up to a note then it is sharp.
• (When you are pricked with something sharp you
  say OW!)
• If you need to go down to a note then it is a
  flat.
• (The note is a flat like a tire is flat and it
  lowers the whole car.)

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MAJOR SCALE HANDSIGNS
d t l s f m r d

• The hand signs for the major scale are
• -d r m f s l t d.

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MAJOR SCALE

• Major Scale examples
• Musicanada 3 Five Little Pumpkins, p. 26 and
  Do-Re-Mi p. 38

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MAJOR SCALE

• Major Scale examples-
• Halloween songs
• Five Little Pumpkins
• There Was an Old Witch

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• DO The stuff thats in my doughnut
• RE The guy who makes my doughnut
• MI The one who eats the doughnut
• FA A long, long way for doughnuts
• SO I think Ill have a doughnut
• LA La-la-la-la-la doughnut
• TI No thanks Ill have a doughnut
• And that brings us back to DO
• (doughnut, doughnut, doughnut)

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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 HANDSIGNS
l s f m r d t l

• The handsigns for the natural minor scale are
• l, t, d, r, m,f, s, l

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MINOR SCALE

• Minor Scale Examples in Seasonal Music
• Skin and Bones
• Halloween Night
• Halloween 2
• Poor Tom

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MINOR SCALE

• Minor Scale Examples Other
• Musicanada 3 Iroquois Lullaby p. 23, Someone p.
  108
• Musicanada 4 Drill Ye Tarriers Drill p. 64
• Musicanada 5 Shalom Chaverim p. 147 Others Hey
  Ho Nobody Home, Gitsagakomim (Music Play 3 and 4)

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PITCH Summary

• Two tonalities
• Major d r m f s l t d
• home tone is d
• warm up d m s m d s (or a variation)
• Minor l t d r m f s l
• home tone is l
• Warm up d t l d m d l (or a variation)

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PITCH Ministry Expectations

• Grade 1 2
• Identify higher and lower pitched sounds in their
  environment and in music
• Reproduce specific pitches in group call response
  activities
• Sing music from a variety of cultures and periods
  (all grades)
• Sing expressively showing awareness of the
  meaning of the text (all grades)

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PITCH Ministry Expectations

• Grade 3
• Identify melodic contour
• Create melodic contour maps that indicate the
  direction of pitches (higher and lower) using
  familiar songs.

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PITCH Ministry Expectations

• Grade 4
• Recognize that specific pitches may be
  represented by notes placed on a staff lines-
  egbdf (Every good boy deserves fun) and spaces-
  face.
• Distinguish between movement by step (one note
  higher) and movement by skip (from line to line
  or space to space).
• Create musical compositions that show appropriate
  use of pitch etc. Grades 4-6

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PITCH Ministry Expectations

• Grade 5
• Recognize the major scale through listening and
  through notation
• Demonstrate understanding of the meaning of
  sharp, flat and natural symbols.
• Explain the use of key signature and identify the
  key (key of G) of music they sing or play
• Begin to sing or play the major scale in the keys
  that occur in the music they sing or play.
• Sing or play in tune (unison, partner songs and
  rounds)

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PITCH Ministry Expectations

• Grade 6
• All of the expectations from grades 4 and 5 and
• Read correctly familiar and unfamiliar songs
  using their knowledge of sharps, flats, natural
  signs and key signatures

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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.