Name:_______________ Class:___________

Music WorkbookSemester 2

ContentRhythm and Metre

Compound Metre

Pitch matching

Composition Task Written/Aural Test

ContentRhythm and Metre

Compound Metre

Semester 2 TaskRondo Composition

Task: Compose a piece of music in rondo form using and and the notes from the pentatonic scale. The piece is to be at least 10 bars long, in , and written on the staff. Perform the piece on a melodic instrument.

1. Was your piece in rondo form? 2. Did you transfer stick to staff notation

accurately?3. Describe the connections between each

section in your piece?4. Were there any mistakes in your

performance? What were they?5. What expressive elements did you use?

In this task I learnt… (may refer to: form, notation, performance,)

Composition Hints: Move mainly by step. Repeated note are OK. Make any leaps and jumps easy to sing, Finish on the tonic.

Year 6 Semester 2 Criteria Sheet

ASSESSABLEELEMENTS

DESCRIPTORSA B C D EThe student work demonstrates evidence of:

Knowledge and Understanding

Comprehensive knowledge and understanding of form and the rhythmic and melodic elements selected for composition. Transfer from stick to staff notation completely accurate.

Thorough knowledge and understanding of form and the rhythmic and melodic elements selected for composition. Transfer from stick to staff notation accurate.

Satisfactory knowledge and understanding of form and the rhythmic and melodic elements selected for composition. Transfer from stick to staff notation mainly accurate.

Variable knowledge and understanding of form and the rhythmic and melodic elements selected for composition. Transfer from stick to staff notation mostly inaccurate.

Rudimentary knowledge and understanding of form and the rhythmic and melodic elements selected for composition.

Creating Insightful and skilful creation of a piece of music in rondo form that is different from a known song, innovative in pitch patterning, finishing on the tonic, with a strong relationship between phrases.

Informed and effective creation of a piece of music in rondo form that is different from a known song, some variation in pitch patterning, finishing on the tonic, with a relationship between phrases.

Relevant and competent creation of a piece of music in rondo form that has some pitch patterning, finishing on the tonic.

Variable creation of a piece of music in rondo.

Minimal or no creation of a piece of music in rondo form.

Presenting Controlled and completely accurate performance of composition using dynamics, expressive elements and advanced technical skills

Effective and accurate performance of composition using dynamics, expressive elements and good technical skills

Credible and mostly accurate performance of composition using some dynamics, expressive elements and adequate technical skills

Variable performance of composition with many errors and little or no evidence of dynamics and expressive elements.

Minimal or no performance of composition with no dynamics or expressive elements.

Responding / Reflecting

Perceptive response to, and reflection on, compositions (own and others) using music language with reference to listed questions.

Informed response to, and reflection on, compositions (own and others) using music language with reference to listed questions.

Relevant response to, and reflection on, compositions (own and others) using music language with reference to listed questions.

Narrow response to, and reflection on, compositions (own and others) using music language with reference to listed questions.

Cursory or no response to, and reflection on, compositions (own and others) using music language with reference to listed questions.

Activity 1

Aural Missing Rhythms __ __

Circle to time signature.What is the top number? ____ What does it mean?______________________What is the bottom number?____ What does it mean?___________________How many bars in this song? _____ Circle two consecutive notes that are a Major 2nd apart.

Activity 2Aural 1. M2 m3 2. m3 M3 3. M2 M3 4. P5 M3 5. M2 P5

Create your own song using the notes from the pentatonic scale below this rhythm.(Move mainly by steps, finish on d, make sure you can sing your composition)

Write it on the staff below, d is on G, and perform on glockenspiel.

Activity 3

Aural

For Assessment…Create your own song using the notes from the pentatonic scale below this rhythm.

Write it on the staff below and perform on glockenspiel

Activity 4Aural

WOODWIND FAMILY

Activity 5Aural - Spot the difference

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Born in Salzburg 1756 – 1791

He was a child prodigy

Wrote over 600 compositions

Rondo Alla Turca

Activity 6Aural

List the four orchestral family and two instruments from each group.

Family Instrument Instrument

Activity 7Aural Create the ending

Write these notes on the staff as minims. Make sure your stems are correct!

G D A B F#Activity 8

Aural- Spot the Difference

Add Time Signatures

Activity 9Aural 1. M2 m3 2. m3 M3 3. M2 M3 4. P5 M3 5. M2 P5

What do these terms mean?DecrescendoCrescendoFortissimoPianissimoLegatoStaccato

Activity 10Aural - Create the Ending

± ± Ö µ Ö µ ± ± Ö µ ± s l d’ l s m s __ __ __ __ Create a rhythm in TERNARY FORMA _______________________________________________B _______________________________________________A _______________________________________________Create a rhythm in BINARY FORMA _______________________________________________B _______________________________________________Create a rhythm in RONDO FORMA _______________________________________________B _______________________________________________A _______________________________________________C _______________________________________________A _______________________________________________

Activity 11Aural – Create your own Rhythmic pattern

1. Write in the Rhythmic pattern of the rhyme2. Create a melody by writing in solfa.

No more school, No more books, No more teacher’s dirty looks.Rhythm

Solfa

Letter Names

3.Write it on the staff

Activity 12

Write the extended pentatonic scale onto the staff below starting on D below the staff.

Activity 13Aural

Compose a 4 bar 2 part rhythm in compound metre

Activity 14Aural Add bar lines

Colour the Mandala

www.crescendo.com.au

Crotchets – Red Quavers – Blue Minims – Green Semiquavers – Yellow

Starry Night

Treble Clef – Red

Bass Clef – Green

Repeat Sign – Blue

2 crotchet beats in a bar – Yellow

3 crotchet beats in a bar – Orange

4crotchet beats in a bar – Brown

Accent - Purple

When is a bowl of soup musical?

Glossary Tie - a curved line connecting two notes of the same pitch. Tied notes are

held for the length of both notes. Canon – A piece of music where one voice repeats the part of another,

throughout the whole piece. It is singing the same song starting at different times. Partner Songs - Two different songs, that have a similar harmonic structure so that

they may be sung together. Introduction – The beginning of a piece of music. Ostinato – A repeated rhythmic or melodic pattern. Accompaniment - is the art of playing along with an instrumental or vocal soloist or

ensemble, in a supporting manner. Piano – soft Forte – loud Staccato – short and detached Legato – smooth and connected Crescendo – Gradually getting louder Decrescendo – Gradually getting softer Anacrusis – – the note or sequence of notes which precedes the first beat in a bar.

There is a corresponding number of beats missing from the music's final bar. Ternary Form – a musical structure consisting of two contrasting sections followed by

a repetition of the first (ABA). Often, the first section is repeated (AABA). Binary Form – a musical structure with two sections (AB); each section is often

repeated (AABB). Rondo Form – a musical structure with a recurring theme alternating with different

sections (ABACADAEA) or (ABACABA). Accent – an emphasis placed on a particular note. Volta Brackets – Numbered brackets that change the end

of each repeated passage.

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