Module 6: Tone Color, Texture and Theme Lesson Slides

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Module 6: Tone Color, Texture and Theme

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Open Ended

Why does one instrument sound different than another?

Type response here

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Technical term is timbre (TAM-BER)
Unique quality of sound for each instrument, EVEN when playing the same note at the same volume (pitch and amplitude)

Tone Color

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Fill in the Blanks

True or False: Timbre allows you to hear the difference between a cello and violin even though both are in the string instrument family

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Main Melody
Musical kernel of the melody that is:
1) Announced
2) Repeated
3) Developed or Manipulated

Music Theme

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Reorder

Theme of a piece of music is usually:

Announced

Repeated

Developed or Manipulated

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2

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How Theme and Tone Color can make an ox cart move or tell of the escape from a Troll King

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Match

How are THEME and TIMBRE used in this piece?

Dynamics

Tempo

Timbre

Theme

Start soft,

Crescendo to End

Accelerando: speed up

Lower instruments with deeper sounds 1st

Same melody, Add in new Instruments

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Match

How are THEME and TIMBRE used in this piece?

Dynamics

Timbre: Instrument Layers

Timbre: Lowest Pitch, Longest Soundwave= easier to hear from far away

Motion of the Music

Start Low&Slow

Crescendo to Mid

Gone @ End

Add Strings, percussion=shaking earth

Low instruments=deeper sounds Begin& End

Bass repeats,

Tuba solo=heavy, grounded

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