- Duration: involves beat (underlying pulse of the music), rhythm (patterns of long, short sounds & silences), tempo (the speed of the pulse/beat that can vary in a piece of music: fast, slow and changing), metre (grouping of beats usually into multiples of 2’s or 3’s expressed as a time signature)
- Structure: involves the way a piece of music is put together or organised: small and large structures.
- Pitch: involves the relative highness or lowness of sound (direction of pitch movement can be up, down or same)
- Tone colour/Timbre (pronounced ‘tambre’): involves the quality of sound which is determined by source material for the sound (i.e. what is it made of? (wood, metal, string, skin, electronic, voice ) sound production (How is the sound made? blowing, hitting, plucking, shaking, scraping) and single or combined sources of sound (textures)
- Dynamics: involves volume of sound (degree of loudness or softness)
Various considerations when choosing music for children
• Fun factor
• Range of music (voice range suitability)
• Age appropriateness(eg: lyrics)
• Level of difficulty involved(eg. skills required)
What should you look for in children while singing?
• Pitch accuracy
• Rhythm
• Listening skills
• Articulation(role of lips, teeth and tongue in clear expression of consonants, practice tongue
twisters)
• Breathing (holding and releasing breath)
• Posture (Straight, eyes level)
• Tone quality( shape of mouth)
• Voice range
In the music workshop today we sang the following songs and it was not as bad as I feared. I was able to sing along.
Resources
ABC song books, Take off with Jazz with Davis Splitter(Lesson plans), Jozz beat (published music)
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