How can Baroque melodies be phrased?

How can Baroque melodies be phrased?

Lesson details

Key learning points

  1. In this lesson, we will find out what a phrase is and how melodies can be divided up into smaller phrases. We will experiment with phrases from Pachelbel's Canon, and rearrange them into longer melodies of our own.

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10 Questions

Q1.
What is a phrase?
A melody
Correct answer: A musical sentence
The number of beats in a bar
Q2.
How many phrases are there in 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star'?
2
Correct answer: 3
4
Q3.
How long is each phrase in 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star'?
3 bars
Correct answer: 4 bars
5 bars
Q4.
Complete the sentence: 'A time signature tells us how many beats in a _______'
Correct answer: Bar
Melody
Phrase
Q5.
Complete the sentence: 'Each of the melodies in Pachelbel's Canon are ____ bars long'
16
Correct answer: 4
8
Q6.
What is the correct word for getting louder?
Correct answer: Crescendo
Diminuendo
Staccato
Q7.
What is the correct word for getting quieter?
Crescendo
Correct answer: Diminuendo
Staccato
Q8.
When you see a slur between two notes, what does it tell you to do?
Correct answer: Play smoothly between the two notes
Play the two notes at the same time
Play the two notes loudly
Q9.
What is staccato?
Correct answer: Playing in a short and spiky way
Playing loudly
Playing smoothly
Q10.
What is legato?
Playing in a short and spiky way
Playing loudly
Correct answer: Playing smoothly

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UnitMusic / The Beauty of the Baroque