3.8 Music: test your knowledge

ARTS AND CULTURE

Grade 4

CRITICAL AND CREATIVE REFLECTION

Module 19

MUSIC: TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

FINALE

Activity 1

To identify instruments [lo 2.4, 2.5]

• As a final summary of the work listen to the finale. You will be divided into groups. Each group represents a specific animal. As soon as the group hears its animal, you must move with the music. The music is in quadruple time (four pulses) - a march.

• We count four, i.e. the beat is four and it is a marching rhythm (1 2 3 4 / 1 2 3 4).

Did all the animals move past during the final parade?

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

Choose the correct answer by colouring A, B or C.

1. The composer is making fun of . . .

2. The instrument that are heard most often . . .

3. Marching Music is . . .

4. Waltz Music is . . .

5. The final summary of all the animals . . .

6. The sound of string instruments is made because the . . .

7. The sound of woodwind is made because the . . .

8. The longer the string, . . .

9. The smaller the instrument, . . .

10. The timbre of the clarinet is . . .

11. The instrument imitating the lion . . .

12. The instrument imitating the cuckoo . . .

13. The instrument imitating the fossils . . .

14. The instrument imitating the elephant . . .

15. The instrument imitating the swan . . .

Rate your knowledge of the instruments you have just studied.

Activity 2

To read music notation [lo 2.4, 2.5]

Do you remember the Morse code from the previous module?

Now read and clap the Can-can theme of the tortoises

It is a good idea to encourage your rhythm!

Sing the theme of the tortoise! Your teacher will help!

Rewrite the theme of the tortoises in a cryptogram! Use the given cipher-key.

TIP : To draw the minim

Line 1	Line 2	Line 3

Assessment

LEARNING OUTCOME 2: REFLECTING The learner will be able to reflect critically and creative on artistic and cultural processes, products and styles in past and present contexts.

Assessment Standard

We know this when the learner:

2.4 recognises time signatures such as four-four and three-four;

2.5 listens to and identifies musical instruments in terms of appearance, name, how sound is produced, timbre and general pitch classification (high-low).