sound- elements - notation - form - pentatonic


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What kind of things can vibrate to make a sound?

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These words are not everyday words but they make a lot of sense when you think about them.
You can click on them to find a definition.

Can you think of anything that vibrates that cannot fit into these four things?

Click on these instruments to hear them play.
Nasty or nice?
Nasty or nice?



Slower vibrations make lower pitches.
Faster vibrations make higher pitches.

Is this the short sound?
Or this?






Move your pointer from left to right across the notes to see if you can play this well known melody:

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Smart Definitions

air in pipes (aerophones)

• instruments that get their sounds from air vibrating in a tube.

• brass tubes - woodwind tubes - organ pipes - whistles.

• the player's lips or a reed start the vibrations off.


strings (chordophones)

• instruments that get their sounds from strings vibrating.
• Higher pitch = shorter, tighter, thinner strings.
• Lower pitch = longer, less tight, thicker strings.

solid objects (ideophones)
• instruments that get their sounds from something solid vibrating.
• wood = woodblocks - xylophones - castanets - cabasa - claves.
• metal = cymbal - gong - glockenspiel - vibraphone - bells.

skins (membranophones)
• instruments that get their sounds from a thin skin vibrating.
• membrane = a thin stretched layer.
• drums - timpani - tabla - congas.

Dissonant
• when two sounds clash.
• the speed of their vibrations do not fit in well with each other.
• try playing the notes c and d together or even c and c#.
 
 
 
 


























Smart Answers
Fact 5: Westminster Chimes.
Did you get it right?
 
 

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