Session Title: SESSION GUIDE IN MUSIC FOR GRADE 7: ELEMENTS OF MUSIC, HARMONY

No. of participants:________ Male: ______ Female: ______

Participants’ Profile: Trainers/ Facilitators
Duration: 2 hrs.
I. OBJECTIVES: The 2 hour session should enable the participants to demonstrate Harmony as one of the elements of music.
More specifically, the participants should be able to:
1. Identify Harmony through musical score analysis, listening and singing.
2. Recognize Melodic Intervals, Harmonic Intervals, Chord Triad, Scale Degrees, Chord Inversions and Primary Chord
Progression pertaining to Harmony.
3. Apply the knowledge and skills of the participants in Harmony through group performances.
EXPECTED OUTPUT (if any): Sing and play simple harmony.
II. KEY UNDESTANDING/ CONTENT:
a. Harmony e. Primary Chord Progression in C Major and its
relative Minor
b. Melodic Interval
f. Circle of Fifths
c. Harmonic Interval
g. Three Types of Inversions
d. Chord Triad

III. REFERENCE:
Ammer, C. (2004). The Facts On File Dictionary of Music, Fourth Edition. Facts On File, Inc.
Internet
Music and Arts - Grade7, First Edition, 2017
 SESSION GUIDE IN MUSIC FOR GRADE 7: ELEMENTS OF MUSIC, HARMONY

OBJECTIVES KEY LEARNING POINTS METHODOLOGY/ ACTIVITY MATERIALS DURATION

The participants should be In this activity the

able to: participants will:

A. Identify Harmony Introduction:

through musical score
Do: Ensure the cleanliness of the 5 Minutes
analysis, listening and
session hall. Materials to be used
singing.
should be ready. Greet the participants
B. Recognize Melodic and make them comfortable.
Intervals, Harmonic
Intervals, Chord Triad,
Scale Degrees, Chord Do: Show the objectives of the session
Inversions and Primary and Curriculum Guide of Grade 7.
Slide 3-5
Chord Progression
pertaining to Harmony.

C. Apply the knowledge and

skills of the participants
in Harmony through
group performances.

Describe harmony according Motivation:

to the given musical
Activity 1 Slide 6-7 10 Minutes
examples.
Listening: Choral example ”Kruhay”.

 How will you describe their

performance?

 What did you feel upon listening to

the music?

Activity 2

Performing: Kodaly Method and Note

Duration Slide 5

 Curwen hand signs Piano/ piano

app
 Whole Note

 Half Note

 Quarter Note

 Eight Note

Do: Divide the participants into three

groups.

Say: Sing according to the Curwen

hand signs I’ll do please take note the
counting of the note duration to be
given.

Do: 1.) C Scale (all participants)

2.) Note duration whole, half,

 quarter and eight.

Do (1st group)

Mi (2nd group)

Sol (3rd group)

And altogether

Note: Facilitators are free to

interchange the assigned notes to every
group.

Say: What have you observe while

singing the notes together? Base from
all of your answers, we can therefor
describe what harmony is.

A. Understand that Interactive Lecture: Slide 8-9 40 Minutes

Harmony is a pattern of
The facilitator should discuss the Piano app
INTERVALS and chords in a
following:
composition.
Show: video or audio examples

Harmony

B. Understand that Interval Interval Slide 10

is the distance between the
Do: Use electronic keyboard for aural
pitches of two musical tones.
understanding
C. Understand that Melodic a) Melodic Interval Slide 11-13
Interval were two tones of
Show: Piano Keyboard and Music Sheet
an interval are sounded one
example.
after the other.
Play: Piano for better understanding.

D. Understand that b) Harmonic Interval Slide 14-16

Harmonic Interval is were
Show and Play: Music Sheet on the Piano App./
the two tones of an interval
keyboard. Keyboard
are sounded together, at the
same time. Audio
Recording

E. Understand that chord is Chord Slide 17-19

a group of two or more
Say: Chords are made up of intervals
notes sounded at the same
which in turn are based on the degrees
time.
of the scale.

Show and Play: Block Chord and

Arpeggio in Electronic Keyboard Slide 20

F. Understand the Chord Chord Triad Slide 21-22

Triad in a melody
1. Scale Degrees Slide 23-35
instruments with the use of
Inversions and Primary Show: the name of degrees and how Recorder in C
Chord Progression in Major they name it. (3pcs.)
and Minor
Do: Triads and Major Scales Activity. Piano App./
G. Understand that a method Keyboard
Do: Distinguish Major to a minor,
of describing tones in terms guessing game. Slide 36-37
of their position in a
2. Primary Chord Progression C Slide 38-43
diatonic scale is called Scale
Major and its relative Minor.
Degrees.
(C,F,G, Dm, Em, and Am.)
Understand that Circle of Slide 44
Example: Videos or audios of major
fifth is a circular
arrangement of the key and minor.
Signatures of the major and Activities Slide 45-56
minor keys written by
Nikolai Diletskii on 1670’s 3. Circle of Fifths Slide 47-48
a treatise for
composition called Grammat 4. Inversion (Root, 1st, 2nd)
ika.
Example: three participants who can
play the recorder or three participants
who can sing in tune.

Harmonize the given songs. Mechanics of Workshop: 10 Minutes

Do: Divide the participants into

six groups. Each group will harmonize
the song.

Say: Harmonized the following Folk

song through a vocal rendition. The use
of musical instruments is optional.

1) Ti Ayat Ti Meysa Nga Ubing

2) Atin Cu Pung Singsing
3) Chitchiritchit
4) Si Nanay si Tatay
5) Ili-ili Tulog Anay
6) Dandansoy

Workshop Proper/ Activities/

Strategies:
45 Minutes
Do: Facilitators should assist the
participants to perform the following
assigned activities. Slide 49-50

Question and Answer/ Processing of

Outputs:

1. Can you identify the harmony in

10 Minutes
every group performances?

2. What group performed the concept

of Harmonic Interval? Chord Triad?
Major and Minor Chord Progression?
and Inversion?

Say: The term harmony derives from

the Greek ἁρμονία (harmonía),
meaning "joint, agreement,
concord",[4] from the verb ἁρμόζω
(harmozo), "to fit together, to
join".[5] The term was often used for
the whole field of music, while "music"
referred to the arts in general.
 Say: Harmony and texture always go
together because Harmony blend tones
while texture refers to the relationship
of melodic and harmonic elements of
music. It adds richness and color for a
melody.
Synthesis/ Closure:

Sing: “I’d like to teach the world to Slide 51 3 Minutes

sing”

Say: “Music is an agreeable harmony

Slide 52
for the honor of God and the
permissible delights of the soul.”
Johann Sebastian Bach
Slide 53
“Whatever you do, work heartily, as
for the Lord and not for men.”
Colossians 3:23

Prepared by:

LYLE JIREH E. SAPIDA

TEACHER - I/ MUSIC DIRECTOR
Email add: lylejirehe_sapida@yahoo.com.ph
O920-538-2587
ILIGAN CITY NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
MAHAYAHAY, ILIGAN CITY

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