MUSC101-Worksheet-1.1

MUSC 101 Music Fundamentals - Spring 2012

Unit 1 Worksheet Directions

Pitch

Pitch will be notated on the standard music staff consisting of of five lines and four spaces.

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Duration

Use a diamond for notes of short duration and a square for notes of long duration.

Short note symbol
Long note symbol

Here's some examples.


Two short notes	Two long notes	Mixed short and long notes

Things to note:

Each note symbol is exactly one space tall.
When the note symbol is on the line, the line runs through the center of the note symbol.
When the note symbol is in the space, it completely fills the space.

The worksheet melody

All three worksheets will be based on this familiar melody.

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.mp3

There are six different pitches used in the melody. Let's name them n1 through n6.

Note	Play	MP3
n6		n6.mp3
n5		n5.mp3
n4		n4.mp3
n3		n3.mp3
n2		n2.mp3
n1		n1.mp3

The melody has a total of fourteen notes.

Listen to the melody until you can write down the order of all fourteen notes using pitches n1 to n6.

Identify which notes are short notes and which notes are long notes.

Assign Melody Notes to Staff

We can assign n1 (the first note of the melody) to any line or space.

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Once n1 is assigned to a specific line or space, the remaining notes fall on consecutive ascending lines and spaces.

Example 1

If n1 is assigned to Line 2, then the remaining notes are assigned as follows.

Note	Line or Space
n6	S4
n5	L4
n4	S3
n3	L3
n2	S2
n1	L2

The first four notes of the melody are n1-n1-n5-n5, all short durations.

Using the above table these notes would be notated as follows.

First four notes

Example 2

If n1 is assigned to Line 1, then the remaining notes are assigned as follows.

Note	Line or Space
n6	S3
n5	L3
n4	S2
n3	L2
n2	S1
n1	L1

The first four notes of the melody are n1-n1-n5-n5, all short durations.

Using the above table these notes would be notated as follows.

First four notes bass clef

Example 3

If n1 is assigned to Space 1, then the remaining notes are assigned as follows.

Note	Line or Space
n6	L4
n5	S3
n4	L3
n3	S2
n2	L2
n1	S1

The first four notes are n1-n1-n5-n5, all short durations.

Using the above table these notes would be notated as follows.

First four notes alto clef

Assignment

Complete worksheets 1 through 3. These worksheets will be corrected and turned in during Unit 2 class.

01Worksheet1.html

01Worksheet2.html

01Worksheet3.html

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Revised by John Ellinger, Spring 2012.