Ear training and intervals By: EVARISTA G. TAYABAS and Nicomedes l. basig CALAPE DISTRICT
Key understandings to be developed A Pitch is an element of music that determines the highness and lowness of a tone. An Interval is a distance in pitch from one note to another. The Major Scale is composed of eight consecutive tones from Do to Do (or 1 - 8). The Key Signature of C Major has no sharps or flats.
Learning objectives After the Session, the participants will be able to: Compare the tone of each note as exemplified in the C Major Scale. Produce a notated melody merely by listening. Perform the songs through singing and playing the instruments. Display perseverance on developing ones skill in listening. Practice humility in accepting the complexities in music.
Introductory activity Melody Relay
What do you feel as you perform the activity? Are you willing to enhance your skills in listening ? Why do you think each of us must exhibit the certain skill?
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Analysis What do you feel about the activity? Are the song/s familiar to you? Which is easier to perform, singing the melody or playing it through an instrument?
Abstraction What is Ear Training? It is doing any exercises or activities that improves how an individual hears music.
Perfect pitch it is the ability to recognize a note, chord, or pitch just by hearing it, and without using any external point of reference.
The C major scale
If this is do, then what is this…?
The intervals
e xercise no. 1
exercise no. 2
exercise no. 3
Application Each group will prepare a 2-measure melody. The groups will perform their melody prepared and the other groups will notate the melody in a manila paper.
Individual work
What can you say about the exercises? What should be done in order to properly distinguish the right pitch?
Music is a piece of Art that goes in the Ears straight to the Heart . -Anonymous