Pitch & Tempo
Define "Pitch"
What is the highness or lowness of a sound or musical note?
Demonstrate notes of different lengths using your voice.
*Student should sing notes of different lengths
How much sound we hear, or, the number of layers that we hear is the definition of this element of music.
What is "texture"?
The opposite or absence of sound - no sound.
What is "silence"?
Mr. Berry's favourite sweet.
What is "Terry's chocolate orange"?
Define "Tempo"
What is the speed of a piece of music?
What element of music describes the volume of a sound or musical note?
What is dynamics?
What is "thin"/"sparse"?
The Italian word legatto means...?
What is "smooth and connected"?
Mr. Berry's makes this Italian food from scratch, and its the best.
What is Pizza?
This element of music could be described using words like high, low, getting higher, getting lower.
What is pitch?
You could use words like these to describe the duration of a sound. (at least two words are required for a correct answer)
What is "long" or "short"?
How would you describe the timbre of a rock and roll drum set?
What is "heavy", "booming", "explosive", etc.?
Musical symbols called "rests" are examples of this element of music.
What is "silence"?
Mr. Berry is from this state in the USA.
What is "South Carolina"?
What words could you use to describe tempo?
What are words like fast, slow, getting faster, getting slower?
In music, what does forte mean?
What is "loud volume"?
What sort of words could you use to describe a sounds timbre?
What is velvety, screechy, throaty, rattling, mellow, chirpy, sharp, heavy, buzzing, crisp, metallic, wooden, etc.?
What does the Italian word "staccato" mean?
What is "short and detached"?
Mr. Berry's went to this university in Scotland.
What is the University of Edinburgh?
What does the Italian word accelerando mean?
What is "to get faster"?
Using you voice, demonstrate a long note that starts piano and slowly grows to forte.
*student singing a long crescendo*
Another word for Timbre.
What is "sonority"?
Describe John Cage's 4'33.
What is a piece of music, made up of complete silence, that last 4 minutes and 33 seconds?
What is "Hercules"?