UNIT 1 SOUND QUALITIES
SOUND PRODUCTION
Watch this video to understand how the ear works.
SOUND QUALITIES
Watch this video about the sound qualities to understand where do they come from.
LISTENING ACTIVITIES
1. Listen to these four musical pieces.
a. Holst, "The Planets". Jupiter.
b. Bramhs, "Symphony 3". Poco allegretto.
c. Beethoven, "Symphony 7". Allegretto.
d. Richard Strauss, "Thus spoke Zarathustra"
2. Listen to Beethoven's 9th symphony.
a.
3. What is the predominant sound quality in each one of these musical pieces.
a.
4. Arrange from lowest to highest.
a.
SOUND PRODUCTION
Watch this video to understand how the ear works.
SOUND QUALITIES
Watch this video about the sound qualities to understand where do they come from.
LISTENING ACTIVITIES
1. Listen to these four musical pieces.
a. Holst, "The Planets". Jupiter.
b. Bramhs, "Symphony 3". Poco allegretto.
c. Beethoven, "Symphony 7". Allegretto.
d. Richard Strauss, "Thus spoke Zarathustra"
2. Listen to Beethoven's 9th symphony.
a.
3. What is the predominant sound quality in each one of these musical pieces.
a.
4. Arrange from lowest to highest.
a.
5. Identify the number of timbre changes.
a.
UNIT 2 RHYTHM
1. Listen to these two musical excerpts. They have different beats. Note that:
* Both have constant and regular beat.
* The beat indicates different speed in both cases.
* Styles are different but there is always a beat.
a.
2. Keep the beat by taping your table. You can check wour internal beat as well.
a.
3. Listen again and match the musical pieces to their corresponding tempo in your notebook.
4. Listen and look for the accent or stress that sounds every two, three or four beats. Guess the time.
a.
5. Listen and keep the beat. Then, listen one more time and play the rhythm of drums
a.
6. "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik" by W. A. Mozart. First you are listening the rhythm, then the melody and finally both.
a.
7. Listen to this polyrhythm.
a.
UNIT 3 MELODY
1. Listen to these two pieces of music. Which one uses a major scale and which one a minor scale?
a.
2. Listen to this song "Fiesta Pagana" and identify the instruments playing the melody and the harmonic accompanimment.
a.
3. Listen to the following three excerpts and match the to the correesponding option.
a.
4. Listen to these pieces of music and identify the order in which they are played.
a.
5. State whether the following musical phrases are suspended or authentic.
a.
6. Listen to these accompaniments. Which is consonant and which is dissonant?
a.
UNIT 2 RHYTHM
1. Listen to these two musical excerpts. They have different beats. Note that:
* Both have constant and regular beat.
* The beat indicates different speed in both cases.
* Styles are different but there is always a beat.
a.
2. Keep the beat by taping your table. You can check wour internal beat as well.
a.
3. Listen again and match the musical pieces to their corresponding tempo in your notebook.
4. Listen and look for the accent or stress that sounds every two, three or four beats. Guess the time.
a.
5. Listen and keep the beat. Then, listen one more time and play the rhythm of drums
a.
6. "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik" by W. A. Mozart. First you are listening the rhythm, then the melody and finally both.
a.
7. Listen to this polyrhythm.
a.
UNIT 3 MELODY
1. Listen to these two pieces of music. Which one uses a major scale and which one a minor scale?
a.
2. Listen to this song "Fiesta Pagana" and identify the instruments playing the melody and the harmonic accompanimment.
a.
3. Listen to the following three excerpts and match the to the correesponding option.
a.
4. Listen to these pieces of music and identify the order in which they are played.
a.
5. State whether the following musical phrases are suspended or authentic.
a.
6. Listen to these accompaniments. Which is consonant and which is dissonant?
a.
UNIT 4 HUMAN VOICE AND INSTRUMENTS
1. Watch this video to learn how the voice is produced.
2. INSTRUMENTS OF THE ORCHESTRA
This website allows you to know the instruments of an orchestra and how they sound. Also, Philharmonia's expert players guide you through the intricacies of the instruments they play.
Here you have another website to learn about instruments.
Here you have an activity about this extraordinary website and another one about the instrumens of the orchestra.
Activity 1. Watch the video, listen and complete the sentences.
Activity 2. Read from page 3 to page 8 of the lesson and answer the questions.
3. INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLES.
A. THE ORCHESTRA
This is a website where you can listen to the different sections of an orchestra.
"Texas Instruments Foundation" is another website to know instruments and how they sound.
Listen to an orchestra playing "The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra" by Benjamin Britten.
B. THE STRING QUARTET
Listen to the final movement of Haydn’s String Quartet in E flat, Op.33, No.2. It is marked presto (very fast). Notice how all the instruments have independent parts.
C. THE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Another example of a chamber orchestra, now playing "Brandenburg Concerto nº 5, 1st movement".
D. SPANISH BANDA DE MÚSICA
ACTIVITY 1
Hijo de la Luna (Mecano and Monserrat Caballé).
ACTIVITY 2
Listen to these three very special voices
ACTIVITY 3
Opera "The Magic Flute" by Mozart. Duet "Papageno and Papagena"
Opera "Carmen" by G. Bizet. Chorus "Avec la garde montante"
ACTIVITY 9
Try to guess which percussion instruments are played.
ACTIVITY 19
"The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra"
ACTIVITY 20
"Bolero" by Maurice Ravel.
ACTIVITY 21
Identify the main voice or instrument in these musical pieces.
UNIT 5 TEXTURE
Watch this video to understand the musical texture.
1. Listen to this example where a single melody adapts to different textures.
2. Monophonic texture.
3. Homophonic texture.
4. Poliphonic texture.
5. Which texture do you think this example is?
6. Which instrument performs the main melody in these musical excerpts?
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