Bellwork

Take a seat and I will be placing you in assigned seats today

Come up with a question that begins like this…..Why?

Basic Music Symbols ALL Composers should know

Objectives

Understand what the symbols are and their functions

Be able to draw those symbols on and off Staff Paper

What is the Most Important Tool We Use When We Write Music?

A Pencil with an eraser! Please be sure you have one as you will make mistakes

What is the most basic Symbol we use when Writing?

The Staff. What is it’s function? We write our notes on it! What does it look like?

The first thing we Add

Is a Clef. What does a Clef do? It marks the lines and spaces of the

Staff to give them letter names (Letters A-G)

There are 4 Different Clefs!

Each Clef gives the staff different letter names.

The Most Common is the Treble Clef

Next

The Bass Clef:

Next 2

The Alto and Tenor Clef Look Exactly the same:

Except

When they are on the Staff:› Alto Clef:

› Tenor Clef:

What’s the Difference

Well……

Break Time

Who can draw the best:› Treble Clef› Bass Clef› Alto Clef› Tenor Clef

What’s wrong with this picture?

My name is Mr. Harris and I have a beautiful wife Katie and I have 2 children Christian and Corinne and I have a dog named Molly and a cat named Stitch and over the summer I music directed a musical at the Vero Beach Theater Guild called The Pirates of Penzance and I lived in New Jersey and……..

How do we Separate our Staff

Using Bar Lines, we separate our staff into smaller units called Measures

The End?

When we want to end a song, we then use the Double Bar Line

One More Time……

If we wish to repeat a portion or all of a musical piece, we add in the Repeat Sign

Game

This is to test what knowledge you have of simple notation.

Please place these notes in order of greatest number of beats to smallest

If you already know this, place these chords in order from greatest to smallest:› CM, C7, C6, C9, C15, C13