Blog Post #5 for year 10.

You can either create 4 separate posts or you can include all the posts into one.

Rhythm 1

Demonstrate your understanding through performing/composing or podcasting.

The concepts are:

  1. Beat, pulse
  2. Grouping of beats to make a repeating pattern
  3. Time/metre
  4. bars and bar lines
  5. accent and non-accent
  6. duple, triple and quadruple meters
  7. time signature 2/4, 3/4, 4/4
  8. Notes and rests (chart)
  9. Time values of notes in relation to semibreve.
  10. Simple time signatures.

Refer to (and include in your posts) music from the ‘linked listening’  on page 16.

Rhythm 2

Demonstrate your understanding through performing/composing or podcasting.

  1. Binary form
  2. 2/4 time and 6/8 time
  3. simple time
  4. compound time
  5. syncopation
  6. ways of creating syncopation
  7. irregular times/meters
  8. 5/4, 5/8, 7/4, 7/8 and 11/8
  9. Polyrhythms and rhythm counterpoint.

Refer to (and include in your posts) music from the ‘linked listening’  on page 155

Major, Minor and Pentatonic.

Demonstrate your understanding through performing/composing or podcasting.

  1. Repeat signs
  2. major key
  3. minor key
  4. major scale
  5. tones and semitones
  6. pattern of tones and semitones in the major scale
  7. minor scale
  8. key signature
  9. naming the notes/degrees of the scale
  10. key signatures
  11. intervals
  12. major into minor
  13. pentatonic scales.

Refer to (and include in your posts) music from the ‘linked listening’  on page 47

Graphic Notation

This post should be a reflection of your performance of the graphic score on page 68. It should include the following (but not limited to these)

  1. notation
  2. various ways in which sounds may be notated
  3. graphic notation
  4. explanatory key; verbal instructions
  5. turning graphics into sound
  6. creating graphic for sounds
  7. graphic score (with key explanation) to be interpreted.