Sight-Sing a New Song July 1, 2015 Session 2

Quick Review of Units 1, 2 Treble Clef (G) Bass Clef (F)

Half Step Whole Step

Ledger Lines “When we want to place a note on a line not already part of the staff, we simply add it for that one note.”

Ledger Lines “Remember that the five-line staff is an arbitrary thing – it developed over time as music changed and developed. Ledger lines enable us to enlarge it as much as we need at any given moment.

Name that Note!

Rhythmic Studies: Reading Rhythmic Patterns in Simple Meter Unit Three

Counting Rhythms “The time signature is the basic foundation from which we read rhythmic patterns.”

Beat Notes: Counting Beat Number 4/4 time:

Beat Notes: Counting Beat Number 3/4 time:123

Beat Notes: Count “one – and”

Beat Notes: Count “one – ee – and – a”

Counting Rhythms: With beat numbers “Of course, we seldom get only neat quarters, eighths, or sixteenths in a given piece of music, so we need to learn how to apply these counting patterns to more complicated rhythms.” Examples in book

Melodic Studies: Major Scales on the Grand Staff; Key Signatures; Accidentals Unit Four

Major Scale: On the Grand Staff tonicdominant leading tone

Key Signature “In every major scale, the same pitches will always be sharp or flat to make the pattern of whole and half steps fit correctly. G major will always have and F#; D major will always have an F# and C#; F major will always have a Bb.” Page 41 Appendix A – pg. 105

Key Signatures How can we remember all these? Or how can we figure out what key a piece of music is in? For sharp keys (G major, D major, A major, E major, B major, F# major, C# major) Order of Sharps ( F, C, G, D, A, E, B) Look at the last sharp in the key signature; the corresponding major key will be one letter name up from that.

Key Signatures For flat keys (F major, Bb major, Eb major, Ab major, Db major, Gb major, Cb major) Order of Sharps ( B, E, A, D, G, C, F) Look at the second to last flat in the key signature; that will be the corresponding major key. One exception: F major

Reading Melodies: On the Grand Staff 1.Identify the key of the piece (key signature) 2.Identify the keynote, or first scale degree (do). 3.Assign scale degree numbers to the notated pitches. Write numbers beneath each pitch. 4.Sing the melody using scale degree numbers as we did in Unit One.

The Natural This symbol stands simply for any note that is neither sharp nor flat. We use it most often in relation to another new term – the accidental The natural “cancels” out the key signature – making a note “natural” that should be sharp or flat.

Reading melodies with accidentals on the Grand Staff 1.Identify the key of the piece (key signature). 2.Identify the keynote, or first scale degree. 3.Assign scale degree numbers to the notated pitches. Write the numbers beneath each pitch. 4.New Step: Check melody for any accidentals. Decided whether the accidental will raise or lower the pitch you would normally expect to sing. Indicate which by an arrow pointing up or down. 5.Sing the melody using scale degree numbers as we did in Unit One.

Next Class: July 22 Review Units 1, 2, 3, 4 Check the blog for PDFs of these slideshows new-song-summer-music-reading-sessions.html new-song-summer-music-reading-sessions.html

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