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Piano
Date
1/11/2017
4
Minutes
50
Anchor standard 9: Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.
KWBAT review for final exam.

Materials:

What was the point of all of this? How has music changed my perception of the world?
Time is of the essence
Fine tune as much as you can the process is never over
This is extra time use it wisely
Study!!! Your exam is coming up.

Lesson Agenda
Minutes

Lesson Component

5 min.

1. Do Now Take out any remaining materials you need to review for the exam.

45 min.

2. Practice students will take out their instruments and do individual practice to further prepare for the latter
half of the exam. Students will be expected to play through the entire piece from start to finish. Students are
expected to only ask fine tuning questions within the confines of the criteria at this point (all major concepts
should be covered).

High Quality Work with Exemplar(s) and Aggressive Monitoring Plan:

Vocabulary:

Whole note - a note written to complete a measure

Half note - half the time of a whole note

Quarter note - a quarter of the time of a whole note, typically used as the beat
Eighth note - an eighth of the time of a whole note
Sixteenth note - a sixteenth of the time of a whole note
Time signature - the way in which music is counted
Measure - a portion of a line of music that helps the music be counted
Bar - the lines to indicate when measures begin and end
Treble clef - A symbol indicating where higher notes are along the staff.
Bass clef - A symbol indicating where lower notes are along the staff.
Harmony - More than one tone played at once.
Transpose - To write the same melody in a different key
Circle of Fifths
Major - a happy scale.
Minor - a sad scale.
Scale - A series of 8 notes that go from tonic to tonic following a pattern specific to the kind of scale one desires.
Key signature - A series of sharps or flats indicating which scales will be used as the tonic during the piece.
Sharp - A half-step up from the natural note.
Flat - A half-step down from the natural note.
Natural - A white key on the piano, or just simply a note on its own following the pattern of the C major scale.
Triad - Three notes that hold a specific relationship to each other on a staff.
Chord - Three or more notes together that hold a specific relationship with each other.
Chord progression - A series of chords used in popular music.
Pianissimo - Very soft
Piano - Soft
Mezzo Piano - Medium soft
Mezzo Forte - Medium loud
Forte - loud
Fortissimo - Very loud
Crescendo - getting louder
Decrescendo - getting softer
Accent - Suddenly loud
Grave - The slowest
Largo - Very slow
Adagio - Slow
Andante - Walking pace
Moderato - Moderately
Allegro - Fast
Vivace - Very fast
Presto - The fastest
Accelerando - Getting faster


Ritardando - Getting slower
Interval - The space in between different notes.