Semester Exam Notes
6th Grade
Procedures
o How to enter the classroom
o Come in quietly, put backpacks at the front of the room, sit down and start working on the bellringer
How to ask a question or make a comment
Raise your hand and wait for the teacher to call on you
How to work in a group
Use and inside voice, respect everyone’s opinion, and everyone must do the work
Landmarks and Keys on the Piano
Notes used in the “Two Car Garage” landmark
FGAB
Notes used for the “Dog House” landmark
CDE
Music Elements
Lines and Spaces on the Treble Clef staff
Sentence used for lines
Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge
Sentence used for spaces
FACE is in the space
Middle C has its name because it is in the middle of the Grand Staff
Chords
3 notes played at the same time
Polyrhythms (many rhythms being performed at the same time)
Polyphony (many melodies being performed at the same time)
Tempo (fast/slow)
Timbre (how a sound sounds)
Dynamics (loud/soft)
Forte (loud) Piano (soft)
Form/Structure (how a song is put together)
Verse/Chorus
Call and Response
Round
Time Signature
Top part- how many beats are in a measure
Bottom part- what type of note (half, quarter, or eighth) get the beat
Whole note (4 beats)
Half note (2 beats)
Quarter note (1 beat)
Eighth note (1/2 of a beat)
Classical Music
Renaissance
Gregorian Chant
Monophonic (unison); antiphonal (2 choirs)
Hildegard von Bingen
Baroque
Bach
Well-Tempered Clavier
24 fugues (fugues worked on piano skills)
Handel
Messiah
Vivaldi
Four Seasons
Classical
Mozart
Don Giovanni, The Magic Flute, The Marriage of Figaro
Beethoven
Ninth Symphony (choral symphony), Moonlight Sonata, Fur Elise
Haydn taught Mozart and Beethoven
Romantic
Art Songs
Schubert
Schumann
Etudes (worked on piano skills)
Listz
Chopin
Contemporary
Folk songs
Copeland
Bartok
Serialism
12 chromatic tones
Minimalism
Short repeated patterns (ostinatos)
Latin American Music
Mariachi
Instruments
Guitarron, violin, and trumpets
Famous song
Cielito Lindo
Dance
Mexican Hat Dance
Norteno
Instruments
Guitar, accordion, drums
Tejano
Instruments
Keyboard, guitar, drums
Famous performer
Selena
Reggaeton
Reggae beat (where Reggaeton gets it name)
Music from the Caribbean
Calypso
Main Instrument
Steel drum
Famous song
Banana Boat song
Dance
Limbo
Calypso and Rumba were started by African slaves in the region
Cuban Rumba
Instruments
Bongos, xylophones, congas (percussion instruments)
Dance: Rumba
Reggae
From Jamaica
Made popular by Bob Marley
Songs are about social injustice
African Music
Instruments
Talking drum, Master drum, rattle (shekere), bells (gankogui)
Arabic Music
Instruments
Doumbek, violin, lute
Jewish Music
Instruments
Violin, clarinet, trumpet, tambourine
Example: Fiddler on the Roof
Indian Music
Instruments
Tablas (drums), Sitar (guitar), harmonium (box organ), bansuri (flute)
Concepts
Ragas (melodies) and Talas (rhythms)
Master sitar player (guru)
Ravi Shankar
Japanese Music
Instruments
Taiko, gong, shakuhachi, shamisen, koto
2 types of music
Taiko (drum ensemble)
Gagaku (court music)
Musicals
a story in music form, and has all of the elements of a story in it.
Broadway- known as the birthplace of musicals, in New York City
Sequence
Chorus Number
Solo/ Duets/Ensembles perform
Intermission
Solo/ Duets/Ensembles perform
Chorus Number