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High and Low Sounds

  • Grade 2
  • Arts Education
  • 1 min 6 s
  • British Columbia
  • BC2-AR-04

Real notes play while each one is drawn as a dot: a high note sits up beside "high" and a low note sits down beside "low". The notes then step up and down a staircase and a voice slides over a smooth hill, ending on the recap "Pitch is how high or low a sound is."

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In one sentence

The question this lesson answers

Is a note high or low? Let's listen!

This note is high, so we draw it high.

Transcript

What the lesson says

Is a note high or low? Let's listen!

This note is high, so we draw it high.

This note is low, so we draw it low.

High and low in music is called pitch.

Notes can step up and down, like stairs.

Each step up sounds a little higher.

Each step down sounds a little lower.

Your voice can slide up and down too.

Listen: up high, then back down low.

Your turn! Slide your voice up and down.

Pitch is how high or low a sound is.

Curriculum

Where this fits

British Columbia, Grade 2

Arts Education, Music: music: beat/pulse, duration, rhythm (music), tempo, pitch, timbre, dynamics (music), form (music), textureBC2-AR-04

Previous: Beat and RhythmNext: Loud and soft, fast and slow

The outcomes and strands follow the British Columbia curriculum.

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