Assignment 8

1. (1) Melodic instruments—A melodic instrument is any instrument that can produce melody. List melodic instruments: Piano, electronic keyboard, melody bells, step bells, resonator bells, xylophone, glockenspiel, metallophone, handbells, tone chimes, and recorder.
(2) Harmonic instruments—A harmonic instrument can play harmonies or drones as accompaniments to songs. List harmonic instruments: Autoharp, Q-chord, and guitar.
( 3) Rhythmic instruments (percussion instruments)—Rhythmic instruments can play the accompaniments to songs. They are divided into woods, metals, and skins. List rhythmic instruments: Woods-rhythm sticks, claves, woodblock, maracas, sand blocks, and guiro, Metals-cymbals, finger cymbals, triangle, tambourine, jingle bells, and jingle sticks, Skins-hand drum, bongo drums, and conga drum.
2. Rhythm, dynamics, melody, pitch, form, and tone color.
3. Concepts
Musical: Rhythm, dynamics, and pitch
Nonmusical: Poetry
Skills
Musical: Playing instruments
Nonmusical: Rhyming words
Activity
Tell the students the poem. Figure out the lines that the last words rhyme. Then for the lines that rhyme use the same rhythmic instrument. For every set of lines that rhyme use an instrument for each, for example there are eight lines in the poem and lines 1 and 4 rhyme use one instrument, lines 2 and 7 rhyme use another instrument for those lines, lines 3 and 8 rhyme so use a different instrument, and lines 5 and 6 use a different instrument, and in total there should be four different rhythmic instruments for the poem.