Intervals: Patterning
Goal: To hear, sing and identify larger diatonic intervals through speaking, singing, and playing fifths, sixths, and sevenths.
Out of Tempo
Answers can be spoken and sung as a way to identify an interval.
Beginning
- Teacher plays melodically in a given order a fifth, sixth, and seventh.
- Teacher prompts, “Which interval is first, second, third?”
- Students answer.
Intermediate
- Teacher plays melodically in a given order a fifth, minor sixth and major sixth.
- Teacher prompts, “Which interval is first, second, third?”
- Students answer.
Advanced
- Teacher plays harmonically in a given order three different intervals using numerically indentical intervals but different interval types.
- Teacher prompts, “Which interval is first, second, third?”
In Tempo
Teacher sets up a tempo, time signature, and tonality and asks students to imitate and then initiate fifths, sixths, or sevenths.
Beginning
- Teacher sets up three-four time and prompts, “Sing in tempo a fifth up from scale degree 1.”
- Students do so.
Intermediate
- Teacher sets up three-four time and prompts, “Sing in tempo a fifth down from (high) scale degree 1.”
- Students do so.
Advanced
- Teacher sets up three-four time and prompts, “Sing in tempo a fifth up from scale degree 1, then a sixth, then a seventh in a major or minor tonality.”
- Students do so.