by Prof. Lydia Ayers

Objectives

• Learn About Pitch

• Comments on the Final Project

• Comments about recording sounds

• Add pitch to your composition

Pitch Exercise• Practice singing this exercise

• Write the pitch names on the lines below the staff

Down in the Valley

Pitch Exercise• Practice singing this exercise

• Write the pitch names on the lines below the staff

Foster: Camptown Races

Pitch Exercise• Practice singing this exercise

• Write the pitch names on the lines below the staff

Skip to My Lou

Pitch Exercise• Practice singing this exercise• Write the pitch names on the lines below the

staff

Barbara Allen

Pitch Exercise

• Practice singing this exercise

• Write the pitch names on the lines below the staff

Nine Hundred Miles

Comments on the Final Project

• Marathon Weekend Concert

• Each student:– Designs and makes a musical

instrument or a set of instruments– Composes a piece for your instrument• This must include notation of all parts

–Writes documentation of the project– Performs your piece in the Marathon

Concert

Comments on the Final Project

• OPTIONAL things you can do:– Form a group with 1 or 2 other students

who will perform your piece in the Marathon Concert• Of course, you will perform their pieces too,

so total pieces for your group = number of students in group• Don’t make the groups too big because it

will be difficult to work with too many people

– Use recorded sounds you sequenced using CoolEdit

Recording Tips• Try not to get a sound with noises from the

TA and people around you talking• Make sure that you don’t get clipping

Recording Tips• Try not to make extra noises moving the

microphone until you finish your sound

MicrophoneNoise

LADIES ONLY, PLEASE• Please record a sample of the sound “jack”– Please make sure you get a sound without

noises from the TA and people around you talking

– Please make sure that you don’t get clipping

–Keep it 44,100 sampling rate, 16-bit, mono (please don’t make it smaller)

– Name the file:

cak_ female_your_full_name_2.wav

• Email the file to layers@cs.ust.hk• I will add it to the piece

Composition• Add pitch to your composition– You can drag notes up and down in

Noteworthy Composer– You can also change the pitches in

your CoolEdit Sequence

• Add your recorded pitched sounds to your composition– Flutes– Trumpets– Any other recorded sounds you made