Music

Music

1. Scales

   • Major Scales Pattern
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     • A major scale ends and starts with the same letter
     • Tonic is a first note
       • Dominant is the fifth note
       • Tonic+Dominant=Drone
   • An octave is the distance between the first and last notes in a scale
   • Eight notes long

2. Orchestra

   • Strings
     • Violin, Viola, Cello, Double Bass and occasionally the harp
     • Played arco (with a bow) or pizzicato(plucked)
     • Biggest group of the orchestra
       • Violin has two portions of the orchestra
   • Woodwind
     • Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon
       • Flute, made of silver metal, sound produced by blowing air across the mouthpiece. Sweet delicate sound. Often plays the melody
       • Oboe, made from wood. Black with silver keys. Sound produced blowing through a DOUBLE-reed. Harsher sound than the flute, sounds slightly like a duck
       • ,Clarinet made from wood , looks similar to the oboe, a bit fatter. Soundproduced by blowing air into a reed in the mouthpiece . A smooth,mellow,rich sound. Especially when it plays lower notes
       • Bassoon, made from wood, usually brown with silver keys. Sound produced by double reed.. Low, gruff, sound. Often plays the bass or oom pah pah
   • Brass
     • Trumpet, French Horn,Trombone and tuba

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