MUSICAL LANGUAGE

Stress or accent

When we pronounce a word, we always give special emphasis to one of the syllables. It is called tonic accent or prosodic accent. The syllables that are emphasised are stressed. Those that aren’t emphasised are unstressed. That ‘natural’ rhythm of the words facilitates the musical rhythm.

1 Observe and interpret the prosodic rhythm with claps.

One syllable fish

Two syllables (bass) mu sic

Two syllables (high pitched) device

Three syllables cla ssical

2 Copy the following couplet in your notebook. Recite it and paint an orange star on the accent of each word that has got more than one syllable.

Three syllables (bass) fan tastic

Before the existence of the guitar, Phoenicians, Tartessians, Celts and Iberians played lyres and harps.

Three syllables (high pitched) under stand

Musical Language

Time signatures

1 Read and remember the time signatures. Practice them with a tennis ball.

The beats are grouped together to form a bar.

The first beat of each bar is the one with the accent.

The  sign indicates which beat has got an accent in the score.

2 Copy the rhythms in your notebook. Read and complete freely. Listen and interpret the rhythms following the beat of the music.

3 Copy the stave in your notebook. Create and write a melody using the notes MI, SOL, LA. Interpret.

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Playing instruments

1 Listen, learn and sing the Christmas carol. Accompany with percussion.

Oh come, oh come little shepherds, the baby is waiting for you tonight. Bring fiddle and horn to the stable, sing joyfully to the little child.

Play and dance with the castanets. Play your fiddle and blow your horn. Sing together the Christmas carols. A special baby is born.

The ox and the donkey are nice and warm, in their bed of straw and hay. They keep the family company, in Bethlehem on this special day.

Chorus

The happy shepherds bring lambs and sheep!

The dog and the cattle, they come too. Every creature in harmony, Up in the sky, there’s a star in view.

Chorus (repeat)

2 Listen and choose three instruments from the Christmas carol. Write their names and draw them in your notebook.

In Phenicia, we also played the tambourine.

Accompaniment with percussion

1 Listen and accompany the Christmas carol as indicated.

Big Bel- ly John Bong. Big Bel- ly John Bong toon.

Pan, pan, play Pe- ter Pan.

Toon, Toon, car- car- toon.

2 Look and make an instrument from walnuts.

Coloured markers

Walnut shells

Wooden board

Stick the walnut shells to the board as shown in the image. Then decorate the instrument to your liking.

Hold the instrument with one hand, and with the other hand scratch the walnuts with the wooden stick.

1 Read and answer the questions in your notebook.