Lesson 2

Loud and Soft Sounds

Objectives:
• Sing a song with proper dynamics.
• Express the true meaning of a song using
correct dynamics.
• Interpret the dynamics of a song through
movements.
SOFT SOUNDS
LOUD SOUNDS
Picture A

Picture B
You talk loudly when you are
You talk softly in places like
Here is a song that your parents,
grandparents, or yaya might have sung
to put you to sleep.
Some songs like lullabies have to be sung softly.
If there are songs that we sing softly, there
are also songs that we sing loudly. The loudness
or softness of sounds is called dynamics.
Have you ever wondered what a star is?

“Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star”

To make a song more interesting, we can sing some of
its parts loudly and some softly. Let’s learn the song
“Mary had a little Lamb”.
Mary had a little Lamb

Loud
Mary had a little lamb, little lamb, little
lamb
Soft
Mary had a little lamb, Its fleece was
white as snow.
Loud
And everywhere that Mary went, Mary
went, Mary went
Soft
And everywhere that Mary went, the
lamb was sure to go.
• Some sounds are loud and some are soft. The
loudness or softness of sounds is called
dynamics.

• Using the correct dynamics makes a song more

beautiful and meaningful.