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Study Unit 2: Listening and responding to music.

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Music elements.

Music elements are building blocks of music. 

Basic elements of music includes:

Pitch (of tone)= Pitch means how high or low. The element which are made of low and high tones which arranged in a linear succession is called a Melody.

Intensity of tone= Refers to how loud or soft a tone is.

Duration (of tone) includes music concepts of tempo, beat, meter, rhythm.​​​​​​​ 

Refers to the length in time of a sound. Sound can either be long/ sustained or short/ quick.

  • Tempo: Speed of the music and how fast the beat moves (fast/ slow)
  • Meter: When beatsare grouped in a group of 2,3 or 4.
  • Rhythm: Combination of different lengths of tones, you can create a rhythm. Normally, song lyrics depicts as the rhythm.
  • Beat: The heartbeat of music. We listen to our foot taps of the song  beat. Accents assists us to determine the number of beats in a bar.

Texture= How thick or thin the sound is.

Quality of tone (timbre)= The uniqueness sound of every instrument.

Different types of music activities.

Musical games, body percussion, singing, improvisation.

Music and dramatization, composition and instrument playing.