Rhythms!
Quarter note (tah)
This is the steady pulse of the music.
The beat.
The "M" in music stands for:
Make good choices
A composer!
This is the name of your music teacher.
Mrs. Scala (or Mrs. Scala-Bolduc)
This note gets four beats.
Whole Note (ta-ah-ah-ah)
This is a person who writes music.
The "U" in music stands for:
Use Respect
This is where we think Scott Joplin was born.
Texas.
Eighth Notes (ti-ti)
This is the musical word for soft.
Piano
The "S" in music stands for:
Stay on task.
True or False: Scott Joplin learned to play the piano from a piano teacher.
False. Scott Joplin taught himself to play the piano!
This is how many weeks we will have music this year.
7 weeks!
When using pizza words, this is our "pepperoni".
Sixteenth notes (ti-ki-ti-ki)
This is how we arrange the beats or patterns of different kinds of notes.
Rhythm
The "I" in music stands for:
Involve yourself.
This Scott Joplin song can be heard in the Super Mario video games and from the ice cream truck.
This is the name of the game we've played every day this week.
Pass the beat around the room.
Clap the steady beat and say a four-beat rhythm.
You did it!
This is the musical word for loud.
Forte!
The "C" in music stands for:
Care for equipment!
Scott Joplin is most famous for writing this kind of music.
Ragtime.
This is the number of years that Mrs. Scala has taught at Hebron Station School.