Print this page, answer the questions and bring your answers to the Unit 2 class.
These questions refer to the Excel spreadsheet you completed in Worksheet 01-1. If you're unfamiliar with music terminology look it up in a dictionary or Google it.
1. What would you change to make the song play one octave higher?
2. What would you change to make the song play one octave lower?
3. The song uses notes from the C major scale. What would you change to transpose the notes to the G major scale?
4. What would you change to create a crescendo starting in measure 1 and ending at the end of measure 2?
5. What would you change to create a decrescendo starting in measure 3 and ending at the end of measure 5?
The original tempo is quarter note = 60. That means there are 60 quarter notes per second and that the length of one quarter note is 1000 milliseconds (ms).
6. How would the millisecond times change if you wanted to make the song play twice as fast, at a tempo of 120?
7. How would the millisecond times change if you wanted to make the song play back at a tempo of 90?
8. Find a general formula to convert quarter note durations at a tempo of 60 to their new duration at any tempo X?
Revised John Ellinger, January - September 2013