Music Class

It’s Time to Sing!

1 Sing the song below.

Music Class

French folk tune

This song is sung to the tune of Twinkle Twinkle Little Stars.

Lyrics by Pearson Longman is a treble clef.

Put your own words to songs you know.

Things to do when singing:

Posture

Both feet should be firmly on the floor.

Place feet as wide apart as your shoulders.

Stand straight.

Posture for sitting

Sit forward in the chair.

Both feet should be firmly on the floor.

Sit straight.

1 a Listen to 2 music notes, me and soh. Me and soh are solfege names. b Which is higher / lower? Show by writing m for me and s for soh in the . c Sing the 2 notes, me and soh.

Solfege names are music names we give to different high and low sounds, such as doh, ray, me, fah, soh, lah, ti.

2 The words we speak also have different high and low sounds. Read the words below.

Oh yes here I’m

Read the words below. Fill in the with m or s.

School starts Each one

3 a Sing the solfege notes below.

1.

2. soh me me me me soh

3.

4. soh me soh me soh me b We can show high and low notes on a music stave. Sing the solfege notes below.

Music stave

c We can also use handsigns to show high and low notes.

Learn the me and soh handsigns.

Little

Discovery d Sing the solfege notes and do the handsigns. b Get into 2 groups. Group 1 sings the words in pink. Group 2 sings the words in black. Both groups sing the words in blue. time tells you there are 2 quarter-note beats in a bar.

The higher the note, the the position of the handsign.

4 a Sing the song below in solfege with the handsigns.

5 Learn a new note, lah. Its short form is l. Learn the lah handsign.

2 Listen and write the 2 missing notes on staves 1 and 2. Sing the notes with the handsigns.

Music stave 1

Music stave 2

3 Use handsigns to compose a 5-note phrase. Get your classmates to sing the phrase. l s s m s

A phrase is made up of a group of notes.