Track 1 Answer the following questions in full

sentences
1. Describe the texture of the music.
2. What instruments (timbre) can you hear
playing?
3. Describe the dynamics of the music.
4. Describe the tempo of the music.
5. Describe the duration of the music.
6. What language do you think is being
performed?
7. What sort of people are performing this
music?
8. Where would this music be performed?
9. What period of history do you think this
piece is from?
 Keyboard Layout

C D E F G A B

1 2 3 4 5
 Swiss Hiking Song
Look at the following numbers

1 4 4 34 5 2 5_____ 3 32 1 3 4 42 1 ________

1 4 4 34 5 2 5_____ 3 32 1 3 4 5 4 ________

4_____2 _____ 1 ____ 5 4 3 32 1 3 4 1 4 _______

Track 2 Answer the following questions in full
sentences
1. Describe the texture of the music.
2. What instruments (timbre) can you hear
playing?
3. Describe the dynamics of the music.
4. Describe the tempo of the music.
5. Describe the duration of the music.
6. Describe the pitch of the music.
7. Describe the accompaniment (backing).
The five lines in music are called a stave

We write pitches called notes on these lines

This symbol is called a Treble Clef
 Notes of the Stave
On the lines – from bottom to top

In the spaces – from bottom to top Above the lines

Below the lines

The Medieval Accompaniment is
called a DRONE
Try out these examples at the bottom of the keyboard
 Swiss Hiking Song
Play the numbers with your chosen DRONE

1 4 4 34 5 2 5_____ 3 32 1 3 4 42 1 ________

1 4 4 34 5 2 5_____ 3 32 1 3 4 5 4 ________

4_____2 _____ 1 ____ 5 4 3 32 1 3 4 1 4 _______

 Enigma Listening Exercise
• Describe the opening of this track. (Sequence of Events)
 
• What element of music would you use to describe the opening?

• What style of music do you think influenced this track? 

• Describe the mood of the music.

• Describe the texture.

 
• Describe the Tempo

• Describe the Duration

• What do you like about this Music?

1. Say the rhythm first
2. Work out the note
name
3. Play note name and
rhythm on the
keyboard

1 1 1 2 3 2 1 3 2 2 1

5 5 5 5 2 2 5 4 3 2 1

1 1 1 2 3 2 1 3 2 2 1
1. Say the rhythm first 1. Voice to change instrument 2. Style to change backing 3. Press Start
2. Work out the note 2. Tempo to change speed 4. Sync Start to begin sounds together
name
3. Play note name and
rhythm on the
keyboard

1
1 1
1 1
1 2
2 3
3 2
2 1
1 3
3 2
2 2
2 1
1

5
5 5
5 5
5 5
5 2
2 2
2 5
5 4
4 3
3 2
2 1
1

1 1 1 2 3 2 1 3 2 2 1
 C C E F G G D C
Homework
1 + 2+ ½ +½ 1+ ½+½ + 2

Composing my first tune

(Always use a pencil)
1. Draw a treble clef and put a time signature 4/4 on the stave
2. Draw a bar line dividing the stave in half and a double
bar line at the end of the stave.
3. Create a rhythm that adds up to four for each bar beneath
the stave. Take the time to add it up
4. Each rhythmic note now needs one of these letters
(pitches) written above – C D E F G
5. Move the pitches and rhythm onto the stave in their correct
place – using (Every Good Boy Deserves Football and
FACE, underground sign C and Dog)
 Assessment Levels
3b 3a 4c 4b 4a 5c

No clarity Correct notes Correct notes Fluent Fluent Fluent

Incorrect correct rhythm, performance performance performance
rhythm, weak pulse weak with basic with rhythmic with rhythmic
pulse with with drone drone drone drone with
drone careful thought
to Elements of
music