Understanding High and Low Pitch

______refers to how low or high the sound is.

Sounds that are deep, thick, heavy, and hollow are low pitch.

• Rhythm

• Timbre

• Pitch

Which sounds produce low pitch?

• Bouncing basketball

• Whistling Kettle

• Ambulance Sirens

• Baby crying

Which sound produces a high pitch?

• Waterfall

• Lightning

• police siren

• stomping of foot

Musical instruments can produce high and low sounds.

• True

• False

_____is the highness and lowness of musical tones.

• Musical line

• Musical Form

• Musical Pitch

_______ is composed of five parallel lines and four equal spaces where the notes are written.

• Clef sign

• Staff

• Note head

______ is placed either on the line or in the space of the staff to show how high or how low the pitch is.

• Staff

• Clef sign

• Note head

______ determines the line notes and the space notes on the staff.

• Note head

• Staff

• Clef sign

These are the note heads on the lines.

• F-A-C-E

• E-D-G-A-F

• E-G-B-D-A

• E-G-B-D-F

These are the note heads on the space.

• E-A-C-E

• B-A-G-E

• F-E-C-E

• F-A-C-E