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Homework
Genres Lesson – Due: ___________
1) You start drawing the ‘treble clef’ from which line? ________________________
2) The 5 lines that music is written on is called a __________ or ____________
3) Draw a line of treble clefs. Be sure to start at the correct place.
4) This note has a special name, what is it? ___________________
5) Name the following notes to reveal the words that they spell:
Advanced:
Name the following notes. Count up or down from a note that you do know.
What are the extra lines called that are above or below the stave? _____________
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Major and Minor – Due: _______
1) Major and minor are words that relate to which musical concept? __________
2) Major music has what type of pitch quality? B __ __ __ __ __
3) Minor music has what type of pitch quality? D __ __ __
4) Can a minor song have a fast tempo? _______________
5) Tone colour is a ___________ of the sound that an _____________ is making
6) List 5 words that help you to describe tone colour.
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7) Select an instrument (other than the ones that we looked at today) and describe the
tone colour of its sound by using 3 different tone colour words.
Instrument:________________ PT
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Tone Colour: ____________________________________________________
8) What is the only note whose stem can point up or down? ____ Draw it here
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9) Add stems to the following notes. Make sure that they are placed on the correct side
and point in the right direction. Draw a treble clef at the start of the stave. Give the
letter name of each note.
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The Addams Family: Then and Now – Due: _______
1) This rhythm has an incomplete bar at the start. What is this called? ______________
| | How many beats should there be in the last bar? _________
1a) What does a time signature tell us? ______________________
1b) What is the time signature of the rhythm above? ______________
2) Add notes to the complete the final bar of the following rhythms. Be sure to check the
time signature and add up the last and first bar.
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3) Three notes in the time of two is called a? __________ Draw it here:
4) How many counts/beats is it worth? ________
5) What does a sharp do to a note? _________________________________________
6) Explain what is wrong with where the following sharps have been placed:
1) ___________________ 2) _________________
3) ___________________ 4) _________________
8) Add sharps to the following notes:
9) Add a time signature (in the box) to the front of the following rhythms
3 3 3
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10) What is wrong with the rhythm below?
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3 3
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Advanced:
Write your own rhythm that has: an anacrusis, time signature, triples, quavers, crotchets,
minims, rests and any other notes that you know. It should be at least 4 bars long. Make
sure that each bar totals the correct amount.
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Dynamics – Due: __________ PT
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1) What are dynamics? _______________________________________
2) In music, what language are dynamics written in? _______________________
3) Next to each of the dynamic terms, write its abbreviation and English meaning:
a) forte ____________________________________
b) pianissimo ________________________________
c) mezzo forte _______________________________
d) crescendo _________________________________
4) Which is louder, f or mp? __________
5) Which is louder, mf or ff? __________
6) Which is softer, p or mp? __________
7) Write on the rhythm below that:
The correct time signature
Bar 1 should be soft
Bar 2 should gradually get louder
Bar 3 should be very loud for the first two beats and very soft for the last two beats
Each of the triplets should be accented
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Advanced:
See if you can find the answer to this question. Why are dynamics written in Italian?
___________________________________________________________________
Below, draw, name and define 3 other dynamic symbols we have not looked at in class:
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Peter Gunn and Texture – Due: __________
1) What is a riff? ______________________________________________________
2) What are the 3 roles or jobs that instruments can have in a song’s texture?
___________________ ______________________ _________________________
3) What instrument played the melody in the Pink Panther theme? __________________
4) Look at the music f
or the Pink Panther theme. Towards the end of the theme you can see the notes that we
learnt in the ‘Adams Family lesson’. What are they called? _______
5) Look at bars 2 and 4 of the melody line of the Peter Gunn theme. The notes have this
symbol > what does it mean?
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6) What does a sharp do? ________________________________________________
7) Draw the symbol that represents a sharp _________
8) What does a flat do? _________________________________________________
9) Draw the symbol that represents a flat __________
10) What does a natural do? ______________________________________________
11) Draw the symbol for a natural __________
REMEMBER TO STUDY FOR YOUR TEST!!
Advanced:
The first two notes of the Pink Panther theme are a S __ __ __ __ __ __ __ apart.
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The notes of the 6th bar of the Peter Gunn melody line are called? __________________
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A Whole New World – THERE IS NO HOMEWORK FOR THIS LESSON