Melody: Layering
Goal: To combine elements of music with improvisational concepts.
Out of Tempo
Beginning
Dynamics, Texture, Interval with Arithmetic, Patterning, Call and Response
- Speak pianissimo, staccato, major seconds.
- Arithmetic: adding accidentals, patterning: lower to upper notes of interval, call and response: solo and group activities.
Intermediate
Meter, Rhythm Grid, Scales with Arithmetic, Call and Response, and Change
- In two-four time, one eighth note two sixteenth notes, major scale.
- Arithmetic: subtract or return the eighth note to the rhythm pattern, change: when prompted by "change," call and response: solo and group activities.
Advanced
Intervals, Rhythm Grid, Harmonic Progressions with Patterning, Call and Response, and Smorgasbord
- Speak the intervals of the bass line scale degrees one, four, five, one using dotted rhythms.
- Do so while looking at the Rhythm Grid Matrix. Teacher points to a different dotted rhythm.
In Tempo
Teacher landscapes a time signature and with varied tempos in 2, 3, or 4 time, speaking, singing, or playing.
Beginning
Choose and melody from the smorgasbord and repeat it x number of times with different textures.
Intermediate
Choose two melodies from the smorgasbord and alter their pattern using the prompt, "change."
Advanced
Give a different melodic pattern from the smorgasbord to each student. Using the prompt, "change" have them alter the tempo, texture, dynamics, and accents.