1. Fifth and sixth grade Music Classes October 2008
Music Basics
Fifth and sixth grade Music Classes
October 2008

2. Music is……
Organized noise

3. Melody the part of the music you recognize the part you hum…..

4. PITCH The high and low notes of the music
Think about a baseball pitcher

5. Melody - components Staff five horizontal lines and four spaces Clef
Treble
Bass

6. Music Alphabet – the first 7 notes of the alphabet
ABCDEFG
They repeat over and over again

7. Octave = 8 notes
Oct = 8 (think of octopus, octagon)
Ave= notes

8. Melody - continued
Lines = egbdf
Spaces= face

9. HARMONY the background to the melody
this is the part that makes the song sound good.
Animusic-Pipe Dream
Scrubs –Janitor Barbershop Quartet
Disneyland Barbershop Quartet

10. Rhythm The beat of the music
It’s sometimes called “the heartbeat of music”
Animusic Drum Machine

11. Tempo How fast or slow the music is The speed PBS 39 Tempo!