Music as a Group
Coordination Problems
Polyphonic Texture
Conducting
Listening Challenge
100
Two ways that people can make music together.
Performing in unison and call and response.
100
The main reason why performers had a difficult time playing together prior to the Middle Ages.
No rhythmic meter had been created.
100
European composers had vocal lines trade melodies and enter at different times. This is called....
Imitation.
100
The first conductor to go against his peers and conduct music the way it was meant to sound and not change it.
Arturo Toscanini
100
How many beats are in this grouping?
Three
200
A way to accompany a melody using certain notes combined together, developed in the seventeenth century.
Triads or chords.
200
This type of music had used the earliest kind of note organization.
Gregorian chant.
200
Different melodies were mixed together to create a unified sound.
Counterpoint.
200
Conductors make important musical decisions about music in regards to tempo, dynamics, spirit and phrasing and _________ to the performers.
Give visual cues
200
The number of beats in each grouping
Four
300
Group Copying Challenge - Call and response, texture, solmization
First group finished - 300pts, 225 to the second, 150 to the third, 75 to the last.
300
One of the basic skills taught to musicians, developed by a music theorist monk, which helps them to learn all of the tones of a scale.
Solmization
300
"Three Blind Mice" and "Row, Row, Row Your Boat".
Examples of rounds or canons.
300
Copying challenge - conductor, neumes, solmization.
300 pts to first group to finish, 225 to second, 150 to third, 75 to last.
300
The number of beats in this grouping
Six
400
Form found in music from Africa, as well as jazz, blues, rock, rap, folk songs, and backup responses.
Call and response style of singing.
400
The earliest form of musical notation.
Neumes.
400
The area in which polyphonic music originated.
Africa
400
Another name for the first beat in each measure of music.
Downbeat.
400
Group Copying Challenge - monophony, polyphony, homophonic texture
First group to finish 400pts, 300 to second group, 200 to third group, 100 to last group.
500
Soloists accompany orchestra, orchestra accompanies soloist, soloist or orchestra plays individually.
Options for the three movements of a concerto.
500
The original number of lines for the musical staff.
One.
500
Copying challenge - Imitation, canon, counterpoint, polychoral music.
500 pts to first team finished, 375 to second, 250 to third, 125 to last.
500
Conducting challenge - groups will perform each of the conducting patterns.
First group to successfully perform all three patterns - 500 pts, second 375, third 250, last 125.
500
The instrument that is being played in this example.
The Native American Flute
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