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Writing Music Down

  • Grade 2
  • Arts Education
  • 1 min 11 s
  • British Columbia
  • BC2-AR-09

A child sings a little tune, and a sheet of paper becomes a three-line staff where a moving line writes each sound as it is heard: a high sound up high, a low sound down low, a short sound as a dot and a long sound as a long mark. The same tune is then written down and read back from left to right, ending on the idea that marks on a staff show high, low, long and short.

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The question this lesson answers

How can we write this tune on paper?

A real staff has five lines. Ours has three to start: one, two, three.

Transcript

What the lesson says

How can we write this tune on paper?

A real staff has five lines. Ours has three to start: one, two, three.

A high sound gets a mark up high.

A low sound gets a mark down low.

Marks that climb up sound higher and higher.

A short sound gets a short mark.

A long sound gets a long mark.

Let's write our tune on the staff.

Now read it from left to right.

Marks on a staff show high, low, long and short.

Curriculum

Where this fits

British Columbia, Grade 2

Arts Education, Music: notation to represent sounds, ideas, and movementBC2-AR-09

Previous: Loud and soft, fast and slow

The outcomes and strands follow the British Columbia curriculum.

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