Lesson One Pitch

Pitch Pitch refers to the highness or lowness of a sound. In music the highness or lowness of a sound is determined by its placement on the staff. High sound Sounds may be placed on one of the lines or spaces. Click on the button and listen to the sound of each note. Low sound

Melody When you put a row of notes together they create a melody or tune. Click on the icon and see if you can guess the name of the melody which is being played. Notice how the notes in this melody move from line to space and space to line. This is known as step-wise motion

Treble Clef Find a piano keyboard and play some of the notes to the far right. They are very high. If you were to write some of these notes on the staff (five lines), you would put a treble clef at the start of the staff. The treble clef placed at the beginning of the staff shows that the notes on the staff are high.

Notes in the Treble Clef Each note in the treble clef has its own name which you will recognize as the first seven letters of the alphabet. Click on the icon and listen to how they move from high to low.

Lines and Spaces The staff has five lines and four spaces which each have individual names. The notes on the lines can be remember by thinking of the Words: Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge. The notes in the spaces spell a very familiar word – F A C E.

Ledger Lines There are also notes which can be written above or below the staff. The extra lines drawn for these notes are called ledger lines.

Note Name Review #1 Name the notes in the following melody. Refer back to Slide 5 if you need some help. Now listen to the melody. Do you recognize it? skip step Now listen to how a famous composer Mozart used this melody in one of his compositions. Notice how he uses skips as well as steps in the melody.

Note Name Review #2 Name the notes in this melody written by Joseph Haydn.”. D Now listen to how he used this melody in his “Surprise Symphony G G