Accidental in Music for grade 5 and grade 6 Section a and b

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1. Accidental in Music

2. Melody – said to be the heart and soul of music. – It is a series of single tones arranged horizontally, expressing the composer’s thoughts and ideas. - Has direction, pitch, timing, form, and continuity Accidentals – other musical signs commonly used in musical compositions. – They are used to change the pitch of a note. – musical symbols in music symbols in a music sheet such as flat, double sharp, natural, double flat, and double sharp.

3. The use and purpose of accidentals in music are to either raise or lower the musical notes than they were originally written or played. An Accidental, in music, is a sign placed to the left or above a note to indicate a change in pitch.

4. The most commonly used accidentals: Sharp -sign raises the pitch of a note by one semitone or half tone. -placed beside a note, symbols look like a pound sign.

5. The most commonly used accidentals: Flat -sign lowers the pitch of a note by one semitone or half tone. -placed before a note lowers the note by a half note or semitone. - Symbol looks like a lower case b.

6. The most commonly used accidentals: Natural -Sign restores the effect of a raised or lowered note to its original pitch, which means that it cancels the effect of a previous sharp or flat sign used on a note within the same measure. -It looks like a box with two extended lines above and below it.

7. The most commonly used accidentals: Double Sharp Sign It indicates that the note is raised by two semitones. It resembles a bold letter x.

8. The most commonly used accidentals: Double Flat Sign It indicates that the note is lowered by two semitones

9. Study how the accidentals are written on the staff

10. Black keys from lower C to higher C on the keyboard are both sharps and flats The black keys are between white keys, called natural keys

11. Semitone or a halftone - Movement from the white key to the black key next to it - For example, if you start playing from F to F #, you are moving by a half step.

12. Enharmonic tones -Two names of the black keys

13. https:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLJBh1-Nwtg

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