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Loud and soft, fast and slow

  • Grade 2
  • Arts Education
  • 1 min 10 s
  • British Columbia
  • BC2-AR-05

A short original tune plays on a rainbow xylophone, and each note drops a dot on a line of time. Played loud it makes big dots and played soft it makes small dots, which shows dynamics; played fast the dots sit close together and played slow they sit far apart, which shows tempo, and the video ends on four cards: loud, soft, fast and slow.

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In one sentence

The question this lesson answers

How can music change? Listen to this little tune.

We draw a dot for each note we hear.

Transcript

What the lesson says

How can music change? Listen to this little tune.

We draw a dot for each note we hear.

Now the tune plays loud. Listen!

Now the tune plays soft. Listen!

Loud notes make big dots. Soft notes make small dots.

Dynamics means how loud or soft music is.

Now the tune plays fast. Listen!

Now the tune plays slow. Listen!

Fast notes make dots close together. Slow notes make dots far apart.

Tempo means how fast or slow music is.

Music can be loud or soft, fast or slow.

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-05

Previous: High and Low SoundsNext: Writing Music Down

The outcomes and strands follow the British Columbia curriculum.

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