Intervals: Change
Goal: To hear or sing intervals by changing them.
Out of Tempo
Spoken, sung, or played.
Beginning
Changing major to minor and minor to major
- Teacher plays a major interval and prompts, “Change this to the minor version.”
- Students answer. For example: major third is given, minor third is answered.
Intermediate
- Teacher plays a minor interval and prompts, “Change this to the major version.”
- Students answer.
Advanced
From below upward and upper below
- Teacher prompts (without demonstrating), “Choose a major interval and turn it in to a minor interval."
- Students answer.
In Tempo
Spoken, played, sung in 2, 3, or 4 time, one note per measure.
Beginning
- Teacher sets up a time signature in a slow tempo and sings a major interval upward four times and prompts the students to change it to minor and sing it four times.
- Students sing the major interval four times and, changing it to minor, sing the minor interval four times.
Intermediate
- Teacher sets up a time signature in a slow tempo and sings a minor interval upward four times and prompts the students to change it to minor and sing it four times.
- Students sing the minor interval four times and, changing it to major, sing the minor interval four times.
Advanced
- Teacher prompts (without demonstrating), “Choose a major interval and turn it in to a minor interval."
- Students answer.