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AL-FAISAL COLLEGE YEAR 7 MUSIC

PITCH AND DURATION

WORKSHEET 3 Listen to Habanera (Carmen) and A Whole New World in the songbank of your keyboard, and answer the following questions. 1/ Pick suitable terms from the word list to fill in the blank spaces in the text given below. Word list: soundtrack, dance, pop single, 19th, Aladdin, lyrics, 20th, Spain, Carmen, rhythmic, aria, ballad.

Text: The habanera is a genre of popular Cuban ................. music of the ..............

century. It is believed that the habanera was brought to ................... by sailors, where it

became very popular for a while before the turn of the .................. century. In the famous

opera ........................., the composer George Bizet wrote an .............. entitled Habanera

and used the habanera dance as its .................. framework.

A Whole New World was the featured ................. from the ................ to the 1992

Disney movie ............................ It was composed by Alan Menken with ................... by

Tim Rice. The song is a ................ between the primary characters Aladdin and Jasmine

about the new world they're going to discover together.

2/ Briefly explain the meaning of the following musical terms: Allegro: ..................... Moderato: ................................ Andante: ......................................... Accellerando: ........................................... Diminuendo: ...................................................... Rallentendo: ............................................ Largo: ...................... Presto: ..............................

3/ Use the arrows (up , down , even ) to draw a diagram that display the pitch direction (melodic shape) of the first section of Habenera:

4/ Listen to A Whole New World very carefully and look for a passage that uses the following pitch direction (melodic shape):