for Beginning Students
This page will present ideas to students that are a little bit out of the ordinary. The ideas may be from music theory, music
history or music composition.
Each month will bring a new musical activity.
I will provide the music and the
work sheets. You will need Adobe Acrobat and RealPlayer (or equivalent) on your system.
You provide the pencil
and crayons or colored pencils.
LESSON 2 - The Musical Phrase
Certificate! After taking the QUIZ there's a certificate for the student's effort.
The Musical Phrase compared to a SENTENCE.
In grammar a sentence is a group of words that express a thought.
In music a phrase is a group of notes that express a musical idea.
This can be easily seen using the song TWINKLE
TWINKLE LITTLE STAR
Twinkle twinkle little star,
How I wonder what you are.
Up above the world so high,
Like
a diamond in the sky!
Twinkle twinkle little star,
How I wonder what you are.
Click on the File Icon to download the musical manuscript of TWINKLE TWINKLE LITTLE STAR.
Click on the Town Cryer to download a complete musical performance of TWINKLE TWINLE LITTLE STAR
Phrase 1 of TWINKLE
Twinkle Twinkle little star,
how
I wonder what you are.
Phrase 2 of TWINKLE
Up above the world so high,
like a diamond in the sky.
Phrase 3 of TWINKLE
Twinkle twinkle little star,
how I wonder what you are.
Click on the File Icon to download some unusual ways to phrase TWINKLE TWINKLE LITTLE STAR.
Click on the Town Cryer to download a performance of TWINKLE TWINLE LITTLE STAR with unusual phrasing
Click on the LESSON 2 BAR above when you are ready to take the LESSON 2 QUIZ.
NOTICE: Each sentence of the poem Twinkle Twinkle expresses one idea of the poem - while each music phrase expresses
one musical idea of the song Twinkle Twinkle.
One trait of artists, poets and musicians, is that they are highly creative. They enjoy exploring new ways of expressing themselves;
new ways of putting words together, new ways of putting notes together.
On the TWINKLE TWINKLE File Icon there are some
creative ways of putting together the words to the poem - Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.
The Town Cryer Icon explores different
rhythms using the notes (and phrases) of the Twinkle Twinkle melody.
Begin to examine your music for all the creative ways composers
use the same phrases throughout their compositions. If you can begin to spot these differences your music study will become
ever more interesting.
