Vocal range - = - >span from the highest to lowest note a person can produce.
Vocal literature - = - >music for singing
Help match pitch - = - >Songs sung in appropriate range
Help match pitch - = - >Simple songs utilizing the childhood chant (so, mi, la)
Help match pitch - = - >Sing melodic phrase and ask kids to follow
Help match pitch - = - >Curwen hand signs reinforce melodic intervals
Process of Immersion - = - >Children hear songs song by teachers/parents, they become
familiar and join in.
Rote Teaching - = - >Through imitation
Note Teaching - = - >Gradually learning to read notation
Percussion Instruments - = - >nonpitched or untuned (cymbals, snare drum, whistles)
, Divisive Rhythms - = - >Involve dividing a larger period of time into smaller rhythmic units.
Additive Rhythms - = - >Larger periods of time are constructed from smaller rhythmic units
added at end of previous unit.
Rhythmic instruments - = - >triangles, tambourines, blocks, sticks
Melodic instruments - = - >melody bells and simple flutes
Harmonic instruments - = - >chording instruments, autoharp
Melodic music - = - >covers various genres of nonclassical music performed by a singer and
orchestra, a single instrument, or either combination
Melodic music - = - >Characterized by single strong melody line.
Melodic music - = - >Rhythm, tempo, and beat are subordinate to melody line
Rhythmic notation - = - >Term used to specify the exact rhythm in which to play indicated
chords
Chord - = - >a group of 3-4 notes sounded together
Staff - = - >set of 5 horizontal lines and 4 spaces
Harmonic notation - = - >Identify key in which music is written. individual pure sounds
normally present as part of an ordinary musical tone (timbre)
Lower number - = - >indicates unit of measurement
Higher number - = - >after clef indicates number of such units in each bar