Teacher demonstrates arpeggios and sequences. Students then identify examples of each in their repertoire and other known music. Students create a short sequence and apply it to a scale. In groups, students perform arpeggios, each performing a different note from the arpeggio. Students write and perform examples of scales starting on a given note.
Students transcribe a melody from treble clef to bass clef or vice versa.
Collect examples of soundtracks from movies and television. Compare melodic characteristics for suspense, humour, romance, and so on. Students create and perform melodic sequences to accompany a chosen television program or movie segment, or as background for a story, play, or poem to be read aloud. Look for evidence that they understand how to transcribe melodic lines from one clef to another. Note whether students put the notes in the correct places and if they use the different clefs correctly.