Music Fundamentals
Lesson Objective: SWBAT: Listen and identify melodies that are ascending or descending. SWBAT: Determine between indefinite and definite pitch. SWBAT: Identify and recognize steps, leaps, and repeats. SWBAT: Recognize the difference between a phrase end and a cadence. SWBAT: Understand how the contour of a melody can be used to emphasize lyrics. SWBAT: Recognize and describe the difference between repetition and contrast.
Essential Skill to be mastered: Students will be able to listen to a melody and determine the direction-either up or down. Students will be able to listen to a melody and recognize steps, leaps, and repeats-also locate them in music. Students will be able to state differences in phrase endings and cadences. Students will be able to discuss composer techniques such as contour and repetition to emphasize lyrics. Students will be able to discuss and describe the techniques of repetition and contrast as used by a composer. Students will be able to draw the contour of a melodic line.
I can statement: I can locate and identify steps and leaps. I can determine the contour of a melody. I can identify and discuss techniques that composers use to emphasize lyrics. I can identify and discuss cadences and phrases used in a song. I can determine repetition and contrast as used by a composer.
IPI level: Teacher led instruction, Student work with teacher engaged
Teacher Strategy Utilized: Day 1: Ear training pretest to check the students ability to recognize notes and melodies that move up or down. Students will listen to the c.d. and circle the correct responses. Students will look at the text on page 24-25, read the text, and locate the steps and leaps in the song "Annie Lee." Students will discuss definite and indefinite pitch. What instruments use definite pitch? How do you know? What instruments use indefinite pitch? How do you know? Small group activity to list instruments from each category. Day 2: Discuss tonal center with attention to cadence. Discuss phrase. How are the endings of a phrase and cadence different? Listen to "The Butterfly" and look for color coded endings. Day 3: Discuss contour-cross curricular definitions. Draw the contour while listening to a symphony and "Jesu, Joy of Mans Desiring." Discuss imagery. Locate examples in the text and find examples 1, 2, and 3 in the book. Day 4: Discuss extending a melody in the song "Tea for Two" and other forms of extension. How do contrast and repetition extend a melody? Discuss sequence. Find examples in other songs in the book. Day 5: Count the number of times (repetition) of the phrase "on the road again" occurs in the song. Is section B of the song different from section A? Why? How does the songwriter make this section contrast with section A? Day 6:Review and Written Assessment Day 7: Listening Assessment-What do you Hear? Number 2 and Assessment 1-Leap, Step, and Contour-Music Notation Examples
Rigor or Level reached on Bloom's Taxonomy: Analyze, Evaluate
Written Assessment
Day 1:
1. What is a step in music?
2. What is a leap in music?
3. What is the difference between a step and a leap? How do you determine what you are hearing?
Day 2:
1. What is a phrase?
2. What is a cadence?
3. Describe a leap.
4. Describe a step.
Day 3:
1. What is meant by repetition in music?
2. What is contrast? Provide an example.
3. What is meant by contour?
Day 4:
1. Describe the contour of a city skyline. How does that relate to music?
2. What type of contour would you expect from a song that utilizes leaps.
Day 5:
1. Describe the contour of a melody that contains several leaps.
2. Describe the contour of a melody that contains several steps.
3. Describe the contour of a melody that contains repetition.
Day 6:
1. Define the following words and use the glossary if necessary:
Contour
Repetition
Contrast
Phrase
Cadence
Step
Leap
Day 7:
Sequence
Pitch
Tonal Center
Use the glossary in the book.
Day 8:
Day 8:
1. In the school where would you find a place that uses contour?
2. Where would you find a place that uses repetition?
3.Where do we find sequence in our music?
Day 9:
1. Describe the difference between steps and leaps.
2. What do you expect to hear when you are listening for contrast in a piece of music?
3. How does a musician play a sequence on a piano?
4. At what points in the music do we expect to hear a cadence?
5. Why is it important to know the tonal center of a piece of music?
6. What type of sound is associated with repetition?
