Music 10

Course name and abbreviation:

Music 10

Grade Level:

10-12

Summary of course content and activities:

Students will learn

• the need for written notation to record compositions.
• the development of the staff as a common method to record pitch and duration of sound
• the concept of high and low sounds
• the use of the treble and bass cleff to identify the upper and lower staff
• the joining together of bass and treble clef to become the grand staff
• music vocabulary terms including composer, composition, melody, pitch, bass, treble, ledger line, staff, music notation, symbols, duration, grand staff.
• learned the names and have heard the pitch of the notes on the treble and bass staff.
• identified notes on ledger lines both above and below these staffs
• learned how to match notes on the staff with their position on the keyboard
• learned how to alter the pitch of any note using a sharp, flat or natural sign.

Who should be taking this course? For whom is this course designed and intended?

If you are interested in learning basic music theory this class is for you.

Philosophy statement for and/or behind teaching this course:

The World is filled with beautiful music, this class teaches students the theory behind the beauty.

Major course goals:

You will learn about:

• Why we use symbols to write music.
• How the music staff is like a sound graph
• Where the treble and bass clef are located
• Where to place high and low notes on the music staff
• How the grand staff sounds when put together.
• Music vocabulary including composer, composition, melody, pitch, duration, bass, treble, clef, ledger line, staff, music notation, symbols, grand staff.
• You will learn the names and hear the pitch of notes on the treble and bass staff.
• You will learn to find and name notes on ledger lines both above and below these staffs.
• You will learn find and name notes on the keyboard.
• You will also learn how these notes are changed by the use of accidentals.
• To recognize repeating sounds that make up patterns.
• To see visual and other movement patterns in everyday things around you.
• That regular beat patterns can be shown by measures and time signatures.
• The meaning of the top and bottom numbers in a time signature.
• The relative values of whole, half, quarter and eighth notes and their corresponding rests.
• You will practice dividing up sounds into bars according to key signatures.
• You will also explore:
• composing with different types of sounds
• hearing notes that are high and low pitched
• placing notes in the treble and bass clef

Pre-requisite(s):

none

Number of credits that this course is:

3

Materials and resources provided by NSA, purchased by student, and/or recommended:

Provided by NSA:

Music Resource Disk

Purchased by student:

Recommended but not required: