MS Music Unit 3 Continued

Unit 3 - MS Music

Mrs. Johnson

Lesson Review

In Unit 3 -

Activity

Discussion Question #1

Quiz

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What should you have done?

Start with your ears

In our busy world, how do we learn to really focus on the music all around us? Should we listen for the beat, the melody, or the harmony? What is most important? Well, the answer of course is—all of them! In this unit, we will learn how to sharpen our listening skills in order to hear the details of music. Doing so will help us to begin thinking about music in a new way.

Listening checklist

The first items on our musical checklist will be – you guessed it – our musical elements: rhythm, pitch, melody, harmony, scales, intervals and chords! To this list of musical elements, we will add just a few more things, called expressive elements, for our completed listening checklist: dynamics, articulation, tempo, and form. For each item on our list, we will learn to answer some specific questions.This can be printed off or saved - shown in Lesson 2, Unit 3. Did you look at this?

​What we hear

Timbre - characteristic sound of a particular voice or instrument

Melody & Harmony - melody - Most songs have a tune that keeps coming back again and again. The intervals that we hear in a melody can be large or small. The harmony is the accompanying part that can either be higher or lower.

Multiple Choice

Melody is....

• the tune that keeps coming back again and again

• the part that accompanies the main tune

​Form: A formula for Music

We know how important it is for us to be able to change our dynamics, articulation, and tempo to make the music more interesting. The pattern of musical changes in a piece is called the form. We will listen for changes in all of our checklist elements to determine if we are in a new section of the form. But don’t worry, there are several “formulas” for form that we can look out for while we are listening. Most music will fall into one of these form “formulas”:

• AB, or binary – music with two different sections

• ABA, or ternary – music with three sections

• ABACADA, or rondo – music with a recurring section

• Sonata-allegro (classical form) – formal structure of a sonata or concerto

Multiple Choice

Timbre means:

• characteristic sound of a particular voice or instrument

• cutting wood in the forest

• how fast or slow the music is

• What we write notes on

Tempo

The speed of the music

Allegro - very fast

Adagio - very slow

Moderato - medium in speed

Accelerando - speed up

Ritardando - slow down

​Why Italian words?

Italian composers were the first to adopt music notation and the first to add expression to their scores. Was accepted in Italy and later adapted throughout the rest of Europe.

Multiple Choice

Allegro in music terms means:

• Very slow

• Very fast

• moderate

• super fast

Multiple Choice

Adagio in music terms means

• skipping

• very slow

• super fast

Multiple Choice

Crescendo means to increase in volume - true or false

• True

• False

Discussion question

Why is Italian the language of musical terminology?

Lesson 5 - Transcribing what we hear.

aural skills, or skills that help us listen to music and analyze what we hear

Let's look at the lesson......

Dynamics

Dynamics - has to do with volume - Intensity! Dynamics just means the volume of the music, and if it

changes or not.

Forte -loud - indicated with a f

Piano-soft - indicated with a p

Crescendo/Decrescendo -get louder/get softer

Legato - smooth, connected

Staccato - short, crisp

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Articulation

Multiple Choice

What language are most music terms in?

• Spanish

• Italian

• French

• English

Unit 3 Activity

Listen to the song, and identify the times that the section changes. You will notice that a section changes when the “sound” changes from loud to soft, heavy to light, major to minor, or just has a different feeling. Indicate where the sections change by writing down the time stamp; for example: 1:30 means one minute and thirty seconds into the song. Notate at least three different sections. Once you have written down all of the section changes you hear, make a guess at the form of the piece. You may choose between AB, ABA, or rondo. There are several answers that are correct, so use your ears to the best of your ability and make your best guess