Music Class Rules

Always:
• Be on time.
• keep attention to Daniel.
• Pay attention when a St. is talking.
• Ask for permission to talk (Raise your hand).
• Participate (if not, stay quiet and let others
participate).
Students 5
Compromises
1. Eger to Learn
2. Eger to Participate
3. Eger to do something
different
4. Get out of your Comfort
Zone
5. Good Attitude
What is
music
1. Form of art.
2. Expressions of emotions.
3. Form of entertainment.
Rhythm

Melody

Harmony
Music
and
Sound
 Sound is:
• Vibrations that travel
through the air and
can be heard when
they reach the ear.

• Sound can propagate

through a medium such as
air, water and solids
as longitudinal waves.
Music is:
1.Rhythm

2.Melody

3.Harmony
Pitch

Tempo
How Music started

Why did man first start to make music? Maybe he wanted

to imitate the rhythm of nature? Did it turn out to be
an essential part of the ancient rituals? Or maybe it was just
entertainment?

• Imitate sounds and rhythms that from the nature.

• Entertainment (games), attracting animals for hunting.
• Some animals use music: birds, monkeys, others.
• The first musical instrument used by humans was
probably the voice.
• The first rhythm instruments or percussion
instruments involved the clapping of hands, stones hit
together.
• The instruments most frequently found by archaeologists include
various types of flutes, whistles and pipes made of wood or animal
bones.
• Ancient music is music that developed in literate cultures,
replacing prehistoric music.
• Ancient music developed across various geographical regions:
Mesopotamia, India, Persia, Egypt, China, Greece and Rome.
• Ancient music is designated by the characterization of the
basic notes and scales. It may have been transmitted through oral or
written systems.
 Gregorian Chants
• Gregorian chant developed mainly in western and central
Europe during the 9th and 10th centuries by the Pope
Gregory I and the Roman Catholic Church.
What is Rhythm
• Movement
• Order
• Sequence of sounds
• Organized sounds
• Time
• Tempo
• Duration
• Beat