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Teaching Perfect Fifths

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Instructional Outcome:    Students will be able to read, write, and orally recognize perfect 5ths in a variety of settings using a variety of instruments.

Tools:    One multi-media computer, Noteworthy Composer music software, Yamaha PSR-282 mini-keyboard, digital display method (large screen TV with scan converter or digital projector).

Prerequisite student knowledge:    Students must know:

• the basic structure of a musical staff, including note names and clefs,

• the meaning of accidentals,

• the principals of a diatonic scale.

Setup/Prep:

You'll need all MIDI connections between keyboard and computer installed and running.  Have Noteworthy Composer running, have a double blank staff up with treble and bass clefs.  Make sure "MIDI Input On" is set in Noteworthy Composer.

If your display is large enough, you will not need handouts, as the students will be able to see the examples.  If not, it might be a good idea to have some examples printed.  Students will need a worksheet or computer/software access to practice finding and writing intervals after your lesson.

Lesson:

Instructor: "The perfect 5th musical interval serves as the basis for most Western music written in the last 1000 years.  Listen to an example.  The lower note is middle C."

Play C-G on the keyboard.  Repeat.  Make sure "MIDI Input On" is set in Noteworthy Composer.  Open a blank staff and set note value to quarter.  Play the interval again - the notes should appear on the staff.

Instructor: "This is what that interval looks like on the staff.  What is the top note of the interval?  [If necessary, review note names on treble clef.]  How could Somebody choose an instrument:" 

A student then can choose any orchestral instrument.  You can then either select that instrument on the keyboard directly, or play the interval from the staff with the instrument selected in Noteworthy. 

Instructor: "Let's transpose it.  Somebody pick a new base for the interval. [A note is picked.]  Can somebody tell me how many half-steps up or down this is from C?"