1. Elements of Music: Rhythm (duration/length of the notes)
Dynamics (volume)
Melody (pitch – up or down, high or low)
Harmony (what sounds good with the melody?)
Tone color (what instrument, what register)
Texture (one voice, lots of voices, instruments? thick or thin)
Form (How is the piece set up)?

2. Beat Vs. Rhythm
Beat: Steady and regular pulse in music (like your heartbeat or the tick-tock of a clock)
Rhythm: flow of music through time. Rhythm is built on the beat but does not need to be regular and steady (like a drum solo)

3. Let’s practice! Bon Jovi - Livin’ on a Prayer
The Beatles – Hey Jude
Survivor – Eye of the Tiger

4. Beat vs. Rhythm body percussion
The beat stays the same
But the rhythm
Changes with the words!

5. Beat vs. rhythm review Beat stays the same, rhythm changes
Quarter notes: 1 beat (ta)
8th notes: ½ beat each (ti), often appear together
Half notes: 2 beats each (ta-a)
Practice: Find the beat of Row Your Boat (pat on legs) – keep it steady, don’t speed up
Find the rhythm: clap the rhythm (not the same as the beat!)

6. Melody – what are the main notes or pitches that make up a song
Melody – what are the main notes or pitches that make up a song? (usually 1 line of music, all of the others are “backup” or “harmony)
Famous melodies
Ode to Joy (Beethoven)
Queen of the Night Aria (voice) (Mozart)
Happy Birthday
Somewhere Over the Rainbow (voice)

7. Harmony
Harmony - the combination of different musical notes played or sung at the same time to produce a pleasing sound
Dissonance – notes sounded together that have a displeasing sound – usually on purpose, to provide musical suspense for the listener
The Entertainer: (Melody in green and to the right, harmony in blue)
Toccata and Fugue, D minor

8. Octaves & Intervals
We only have 7 note names in the musical alphabet (ABCDEFG)
You can have a high A and a low A, and a lower A, and the lowest A. They are all still A.
Sometimes, we have intervals, 2 DIFFERENT notes played at the same time. For example, A and C. A and C are a minor 3rd away, (A, B, C = 3 full notes away) and C and G are a perfect 5th away from each other

9. Show me 1 for mostly melody (1 note at a time), 2 for mostly harmony (2+ notes at a time)
(Jackson 5 – ABC)
(Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody)
This one switches back and forth, so you will have to change your answers as you go (Pentatonix – Cruisin for a Bruisin)

10. Tone Color
Please have your notebook or binder with paper, a pencil, and your water bottle.
Spit out your gum and put food and phones away!
Use the restroom or get a drink BEFORE class begins. Thanks!

11. Tone Color (not blue or pink!)
Identify
Classify
Explain
Describe
Range/Register and Role
(Australian lady explains for us)

12. Instrument Families (Orchestra)
What is a trumpet? Saxophone? What do you think the voice is closest to?

13. Examples! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCCjvSjwJwk

14. Texture https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoLWvT1iMoA
Monophonic – 1 melody line, nothing else
Homophonic (everyone has the same rhythm, but not always the same notes)
Polyphonic – different notes AND different rhythms

15. Rhythm Review Please have your notebooks & pencils ready, gum out, and use the restroom/get a drink before class begins. It’s Friday – please don’t make me take your locker break for talking, disrespect, tardiness, or unpreparedness!
8th notes = ½ beat each
Quarter notes = 1 beat
Half = 2 beats
Dotted half = 3 beats
Whole = 4 beats

16. Form Form uses lots of letters! ABCD, etc
Form means, how is the piece set up? The first part of the song is A. If that part of the song (melody) ever comes back, it is A again. A new part would be C, then the next new part is D, etc.

17. Form (how is the piece of music set up)?
Strophic - AAAA
Binary – AB (sometimes AABB)
Ternary - ABA
Rondo (A keeps coming back) ABACAD etc
Arch - ABCBA
Sonata Form - Exposition: --- Development --- Recapitulation

18. Listen to Examples!
My Country, Tis of Thee
O Susanna
Twinkle Twinkle

19. Whats and Whys of Music? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4ct1jRN7Bo
Organized sound
Does it have to be “pretty”? Do people have the same idea of what “pretty” is?
When do you hear music? _____

20. Why and How Do We Make Music?
Your Brain on Music:
Some reasons we creat music are…?

21. Rondo Form – How to Create
Use the restroom, get a drink, put away electronics, and spit out your gum/food BEFORE class starts!
(classical music example) Class Rondo: A B C

22. How to Create your OWN – 8 beats each (groups of 3ish)
Rondo Form
Try “ABACA” Write a rhythm for A
Write a NEW rhythm for B
Bring the A section back again
Write a NEW rhythm for C, different from A and B
PRESENT

23. What is music? If you had to define it, what would you say?
What is form in music?
Your Brain on Music: