Lesson(s) Sequence

 

1. Play Good Vibrations as students are finding their seats.

 

 

 

 

 

 

2. Ask students to take out their Classroom Notes Worksheet (CNW) binder.

 

 

3. Ask students to look at the following picture. According to the blog where I found this picture, the shirt "goes" together with all four outfits. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Even though the shirt is a different color and texture than the other clothing, when paired with each outfit option, they do seem to go together.  Most people choose the clothes they wear so their shirt complements their pants, which matches their shoes etc. To put it another way, we choose clothes that work in harmony together.  This analogy is very similar to the concepts we will be talking about in the next few lessons.

 

 

 

 

4. We have already talked about Melody, which are pitches that have a horizontal relationship, and listened to Adele's Set Fire to the Rain.  Today

    we are talking about Harmony, which are pitches that occur simultaneously and have a vertical relationship.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5. Ask students to write the definition of Harmony in their CNW. As you can see (above), this results in the music having more than one layer in its

    Texture. 

 

Definition: Harmony is pitches that occur simultaneously and have a vertical relationship.

 

 

 

 

6. Polyphonic Texture is one of the ways Harmony can be created in music. Ask students to write the definition in their CNW.

 

Definition: Polyphonic Texture is two or more melodies performed together at the same time.

 

    If we use the clothing analogy, then an example of Polyphonic Text might look like Hagrid, while Monophonic Texture would look like Snape. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

     In music, this is what it Polyphonic Texture would sound like.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

7. There are several types of Polyphonic Texture that create Harmony. We are going to talk about these over the next several lessons:

 

* Melodic Ostinato

 

* Partner Songs

 

* Rounds and Canons

 

* Descants

 

* Drones