1. National & School Anthem

2. Environmental Sounds
3. Social Functions
Grade 6
4. Naming the Keyboard
5. Signs & Symbols
1 Term Syllabus
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6. Great Staff
7. Treble, Bass clef, Staff
8. Letter Names Treble
9. Letter Names Bass
10.Singing
11. Recorder-BAG
12. Recorder -Exercises
 National Anthem
n ‘Sri Lanka Matha’ is our National Anthem
n The lyrics and music were written by
Ananda Samarakoon
n The National Anthem was sung for the first time on
Feb. 04th 1948 at the first independence day celebration
n It is sung in Sinhala language and also in Tamil language
 Music is made of sound.
Sound is created by nature or by man.

Sounds of Nature
1. Bird Chirping
2. Rustling of leaves
3. Sound of the breeze
4. Water flow
5. Babbling of the river
6. Sea waves
7. Raining on the roof
8. Cry of animals
 Man - made sounds
1. Building construction sounds
(hammering, drilling, scrapping, shouting at work places)
2. Vendors noice
3. Traffic sounds
(tooting the horn, applying brakes)
4. Children shouting
5. Music performances
When is the National Anthem sung or played?
 At National ceremonies
 When the President of Sri Lanka is
present at ceremonial occasions
n On Independence day
n At schools’ assembly
n When Radio and Television stations open
and close the programmes
When singing the National Anthem......

We feel proud of our mother land

So we stand at attention and show our devotion and
respect for it.

Our Anthem praises the country’s

- Beauty
- Richness of our natural resources
- Depicts the country’s glory
 Musical Signs and Symbols

1 3

2 4
5 7

6 8
Key Signature
Bar Line Staff Double
Bar line

Rest
Time Signature
01. Fill in the blank with suitable words given below within brackets

(Five, G Clef, Lines and Spaces, Stave, Staff, F Clef)

1. The stave is made up of............................................ parallel lines

2. Music notes are written on .............................................................

3. The Treble clef is also known as ....................................................

4. The Bass clef is also known as .......................................................

5. We write music notes on a .............................................................

6. Another name for a stave is ...........................................................

• 7. Draw a stave

• 8. Draw a Treble and a Bass clef on the stave

 Treble clef Bass clef

• 9. Identify the given notes as on a line or in a space
• 10. Draw the Great Staff

• 11. The Great Staff has ................................................. lines

• 12. ........................... is found in the center of the Great Staff

• 13. The part above Middle C is the ............................................

• 14. The part below Middle C is the ...........................................

• 15. How many letters are there in the Musical Alphabet? ... Name
them ........................................................................
23. What unmusical sounds do you hear in school
1.............................................................................................................
2.............................................................................................................
3.............................................................................................................
24. State Musical or Unmusical
1. A Bird Chirping .................................................
2. The Sound of a Trumpet .................................................
3. A Frog Croaking .................................................
25. Name a song which you have learnt from school, Write four lines of the
song
...............................................................................................................
26. Write four lines of the college Anthem
..............................................................................................................