MUSIC For LIVING

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MUSIC For LIVING
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INTRODUCTION

• People make music in many ways. They play
  instruments with others in bands, orchestras,
  steelpan ensembles, and rock groups.
• Or, they play by themselves on the piano or
  organ, guitar or a saxophone.
• Almost everyone can sing in folk groups,
  choirs, Broadway theaters or even in the
• shower.

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The Elements of MUSIC

• Have you ever found yourself humming the tune to
  a song you saw on the Disney channel?
• Have you thought about a television show or
  advertisement just because you recognized its
  theme song or jingle?
• If you have, you were responding to the MELODY,
  the element that usually identifies a piece of
  music.

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Melody Steps Out

• Melodies move in three different ways. They move
  by step when they are moving along the scale.

Click to hear an excerpt on a melody moving by
steps
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What is a scale?

• Each one of these notes is a step away from the
  note on either side.
• When a note moves from a line to a space or a
  space to a line,
• the melody is moving by steps.

Click to hear the C major scale
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Melody Leaps About

• When notes move from one line to another line (or
  further) or from one space to another space (or
  further), we call this movement by leap

Click to hear an example of a musical excerpt
melody moving by leaps --- Sayamanda by Andre
Tankar---
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Melody repeats

• Melody notes can repeat just stay where they
  are. Either on the same line or on the same space.

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Melody Contour

• A melody can have tones that move upward or
  downward by steps, tones that leaps and tones
  that repeat.
• The way tones move gives a melody its CONTOUR or
  shape.

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Name that Tune

• Can you name that tune by looking at the contour
  of the first phrase?

America
Skip to my Lou
Working on the railroad