Definitions of Music terms
Elements of Music
Performing
This and That
Music in the Curriculum
100
A beat that is accentuated or given emphasis. Often creates sets of beats, usually in sets of 2, 3, or 4.
What is an Accent
100
Has two aspects: beat (pulse) and pattern (rhythm of the words)
What is Rhythm
100
Sol, sol, mi, la, sol, mi
What is Natural Chant of Childhood
100
Made up of three components: an ability, an attitude, and a process.
What is Creativity.
100
A type of ABACA form. The returning A section occurs three or four times
What is Rondo
200
A line drawn before the accented beat to group the steady beats into sets. It measures the music
What is a Barline
200
The tune of a song or piece of music. It can only move up, down, or stay the same.
What is Melody
200
Putting this in a child's hands can be all the motivation needed to get even the shyest child involved.
What is an Instrument.
200
An underlying repeating accompaniment that plays throughout the composition.
What is an Ostinato
200
Using TV theme songs, create new words to the tunes
What is a Piggyback Song
300
The sets of beats created by the bar lines.
What is a Measure
300
Two or more tones sounding together
What is Harmony
300
Allows the music to flow through the child and lets them express what they hear.
What is Movement
300
Three components of art
What is Unity, Variety, and Balance. (UVB)
300
The study of animals should also include listening. One song that allows children to listen to the sounds of animals is.
What is Carnival of the Animals
400
Used to indicate the underlying pattern of beats to the performer.
What is a time signature
400
Sections that sometimes repeat and sometimes alternate with different sections
What is Form
400
One of the best ways to present a song to students that allows visual learners to benefit the most.
What is a Song Map
400
The three learning modalities.
What is Aural, Visual, and Kinesthetic.
400
A composition by Antonio Vivaldi that can be used by teachers to teach about the seasons.
What is The Four Seasons
500
A set of five horizontal lines and four spaces that each represent a different musical pitch.
What is a Staff
500
Tone color is the sound source in music and includes categorizing instruments into groupings.
What is Expressive Qualities
500
A wonderful way to bring culturally relevant experiences into the classroom
What is a Folk Dance
500
Three key ways in which children transform experience into knowledge.
What is Enactive, Iconic, and Symbolic.
500
A composition by Gustav Holst that can be used to introduce the eight planets of the solar system.
What is The Planets
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