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)?

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)

Let’s practice! Bon Jovi - Livin’ on a Prayer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXsmGSnq3lE The Beatles – Hey Jude https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWP_lqd_8M0 Survivor – Eye of the Tiger https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEjgPh4SEmU

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

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!)

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) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpVV9jShEzU Happy Birthday Somewhere Over the Rainbow (voice) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSZxmZmBfnU

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)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSZxmZmBfnU Toccata and Fugue, D minor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOWi8tOf5FA

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

Show me 1 for mostly melody (1 note at a time), 2 for mostly harmony (2+ notes at a time) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ho7796-au8U (Jackson 5 – ABC) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ9rUzIMcZQ (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) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_V6-zAlBeo

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!

Tone Color (not blue or pink!) Identify Classify Explain Describe Range/Register and Role https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgqcySa4I9w (Australian lady explains for us)

Instrument Families (Orchestra) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQ95KUWCGT0 What is a trumpet? Saxophone? What do you think the voice is closest to?

Examples! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCCjvSjwJwk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lExW80sXsHs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ry4BzonlVlw

Texture https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoLWvT1iMoA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-hrBhA4XkM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCnRYj3lMlQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dyo7jzaCUhk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vn9pQGfCFSo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9b_oVBQKs3w Monophonic – 1 melody line, nothing else Homophonic (everyone has the same rhythm, but not always the same notes) Polyphonic – different notes AND different rhythms

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

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.

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

Listen to Examples! My Country, Tis of Thee https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN2I6vdzgts O Susanna https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYiXyZwgPB8 Twinkle Twinkle

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? _____

Why and How Do We Make Music? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oANP3WV4bnE Your Brain on Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6-C4NmK0fM Some reasons we creat music are…?

Rondo Form – How to Create Use the restroom, get a drink, put away electronics, and spit out your gum/food BEFORE class starts! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kM3Sv8cgGEw (classical music example) Class Rondo: A B C

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

What is music? If you had to define it, what would you say? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4ct1jRN7Bo What is form in music? Your Brain on Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6-C4NmK0fM