Lesson OneLesson One

PitchPitch

PitchPitchPitch refers to the highness or lowness of a sound. In music the highness or lowness of a sound is determined by its placement on the staff.

High sound

Low sound

Click on the speaker icon ( ) to listen to the sound of each note

Sounds may be placed on one of the lines or spaces

MelodyMelody

When you put a row of notes together they create a melody or tune

Can you guess the name of the melody?

Notice how the notes in this melody move from line to space and space to line. This is known as step-wise motion

Click the icon:

That’s right! It is “Mary Had A Little Lamb”.

Treble ClefTreble Clef

Find a piano keyboard and play some of the notes to the far right. They are very high. If you were to write some of these notes on the staff (five lines), you would put a treble clef at the start of the staff.

The treble clef placed at the beginning of the staff shows that the notes on the staff are high.

Notes in the Treble ClefNotes in the Treble Clef

Each note in the treble clef has its own name that you will recognize as the first seven letters of the alphabet

Click on the icon and listen to how they move

from high to low

The staff has five lines and four spaces.

The notes on the lines can be remembered by thinking of the words: EEvery GGood BBoy DDeserves FFudge.

The notes in the spaces spell a very familiar word: F A C EF A C E.

Lines and SpacesLines and Spaces

Ledger LinesLedger Lines

There are also notes which can be written

above

or below

The extra lines drawn for these notes are called

ledger lines

Note Name Review #1Note Name Review #1Name the notes in the following melody

• Refer back to Slide 5 if you need some help

Now listen to the melody. Do you recognize it?

Now listen to how a famous composer, Mozart, used this melody in one of his compositions

Notice how he uses skips as well as steps in the melody

skip

step

Note Name Review #2Note Name Review #2Name the notes in this melody written by Joseph Haydn

Now listen to how he used this melody in his “Surprise Symphony”

Online SupportOnline SupportFor more enrichment on the topic of Pitch go to: 1. Ricci Adam's Music Theory 2. From menu on left select “Staff, Clefs, Ledger

Lines”

HomeworkHomework

Enter Note Name Review 1 & 2 into the notation program Enter Note Name Review 1 & 2 into the notation program you are using and put the correct note names underneath.you are using and put the correct note names underneath.