Lesson Guide in Rudiments of Music

Prepared by: Daniel G. Vicencio

I Objectives
a) To understand the basic elemets and symbols of music.
b) To identify the beat of a song through time signatures.
c) To visually and aurally identify the value of notes.
d) To perform and execute through handclapping.

II Subject matter: Basic elements and symbols of music and note reading.
Reference: Music In Theory and Practice Volume I 8th edition by Benward and Saker
Materials: PowerPoint, LCD Projector

Values: Creativity, Patience

III Procedure
Teachers activity Students activity
A. Lesson
Presentation
Let us proceed and study the basic (Students will listen)
elements and symbols of music.

1. The staff
a. Staff
The staff is composed of 5
horizontal lines and 4 spaces.
b. Measure/Bar
A space between two barlines.
c. Bar Line
A vertical line that divides the staff
into measures.
d. Double Bar Line
Signifies an end of a musical
section or a piece of music.

You might be confused about the staff Yes, sir!

and the measure because they look
similar. Shall I explain it further?

*Teacher uses the blackboard to draw

the staff and measures
The horizontal lines and the spaces is
the staff. A measure is the section of a
musical staff that comes between two
bar lines. Does that make it clear? Yes, sir!

*Shows picture of a staff

Can we identify how many measures

are there in this staff? 3

Thats right!

How many are in this one? 5

Very good!

2. Kinds of notes
Let us now proceed to indentifying the
kinds of notes. Can someone read this
slide for the class?
Note a symbol expressing relative
duration of time in music. The duration if
determined by the shape or form of the
note.

Thank you very much! Now here are

the kinds of notes representing their
number of beats.

*Shows picture of the kinds of notes

Whole note

Half note

Quarter note (and so on)

Let us now proceed and discuss the
time signature. Can someone read the
slide for the class?
Time signature an indication of
rhythm , generally expressed as a
fraction with the numerator giving the
number of beats in each bar and the
denominator defining the beat as a
division of a whole note.

Thank you very much!

To make it simpler, the number on the

top indicates how many beats there are
in a masure. The bottom number
inicates the type of note to get 1 beat.

Here is a staff with a 4/4 time

signature.

How many notes are in this staff? Four.

What is the type of note used? Quarter notes.

Correct!

B. Application
Handclapping

Here is a staff with a 4/4 time

signature.

*Teacher demonstrates on how to clap

the notes shown on the staff.

Now lets clap the rhythm together. (*claps rhythm)

 Very good!

Here is another one. Can you clap it on

your own? (*claps rhythm)

Thats great!

IV Evaluation

Kindly identify the elements and (*gives answers to the pictures

symbols that will be shown. shown)
1. Staff
2. Bar line
3. Double bar line
4. Whole note
5. Half note
6. Quarter note
7. Time signature

Very good! That is all for today. Thank

you for listening to my lecture!