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Melody and Form Lessons Guide

This document contains information about melody and musical form presented over three lessons: 1. Lesson 1 introduces melody as the tune of a song and discusses how melodies can move in different directions. It also covers locating melodic directions in songs. 2. Lesson 2 discusses musical notes and introduces the musical scale. It covers pitch names, solfege syllables, and singing the scale. 3. Lesson 3 defines musical lines as phrases that make up songs. It provides examples of similar and dissimilar musical lines and asks students to compare pairs of lines.

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Melody and Form Lessons Guide

This document contains information about melody and musical form presented over three lessons: 1. Lesson 1 introduces melody as the tune of a song and discusses how melodies can move in different directions. It also covers locating melodic directions in songs. 2. Lesson 2 discusses musical notes and introduces the musical scale. It covers pitch names, solfege syllables, and singing the scale. 3. Lesson 3 defines musical lines as phrases that make up songs. It provides examples of similar and dissimilar musical lines and asks students to compare pairs of lines.

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UNIT III

MELODY
AND
FORM
PREPARED BY:
ROSELYN GUTAS

LESSON 1
GET SET
Whistle the melody of “Ten Little Indians”

TUNE IN
What is melody?
It is simply the tune of a song.
Here is a simple melody.
Repeat after your teacher.

How does a melody move?


There are three ways in which a melody moves.
WORK THESE OUT
Here are examples of notes moving in different directions.
Play “on air” your right hand to show the direction of notes.

Repeat tones on the spaces and lines.

WRAP UP

Sing the song.


Locate the medic directions found in the song.
LESSON 2

THE SCALE
TUNE IN
Introduce yourself to your class.

GET SET
Notes have names, too.
Notes have letter or pitch names.
Notes have so- fa syllable names
Read the notes.

Scale is a series of notes that move up and down a ladder.


Sing the scale with your teacher.
WORK THESE OUT
A. Read these notes according to pitch names.

B. Read these notes according to syllable names.

WRAP UP
A. What comes before?

1. ___________ so
2. ___________ ti
3. ___________ mi
4. ___________ fa
5. ___________ la
6. ___________ do
7. ___________ re
8. ___________ so

B. What comes after?

1. C ________
2. F ________
3. A ________
4. G ________
5. B _________
6. E _________
7. D ________
8. C _______

LESSON 3

MUSICAL LINES
TUNE IN
Read this poem.

GET SET
A poem is like a song made up of phrases.
These phrases are simply called musical lines.
Musical lines may be similar.
It may also be dissimilar.

See some examples of similar musical lines.


Here are examples of musical lines that are dissimilar.

WORK THESE OUT


Below are simple musical lines.
Compare them.
Tell whether they are
similar or dissimilar.
1. A and B
2. B and C
3. A and C
4. A and D
5. B and D
6. C and D

WRAP UP

Compare each pair of musical lines.


Write on the blanks if they are similar or dissimilar.

POST TEST
I. If the notes are moving up color them yellow.
If the notes are moving down, color them green.
If the notes are repeated, color them red.
II. Write ST for tones that that move by steps.
Write SK for tones that move by skips.

III. Follow the directions.


IV. Sing the notes of this melody while clapping the rhythmic patterns.

V. Read this familiar melody.


Clap or tap the rhythm while reciting the words.
Read the notes according to syllables.
Sing the words in correct rhythm and pitch.
VI. A. Read the notes of this song according to pitch names.

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