Learning to Listen: The Elements of Music: Music Unit 1, Grade 7 (Letters & Devotion)

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Learning to Listen: The Elements of Music is Unit 1 of Listening Across Cultures: An Introduction to Music Appreciation (Grade 7), the Letters & Devotion Music course, complete in one printable PDF: 9 lessons, the unit check-up and the answer key, 56 pages.

• The distinction between beat (the steady pulse) and tempo (the speed of that pulse)
• Melody as the foreground line a listener follows, distinct from accompanying harmony
• The relationship between a specific dynamic or tempo change and the expressive effect it produces
• Texture types distinguished by number and independence of audible pitch layers
• Timbre as the audible quality that distinguishes sound sources of the same pitch and volume
• Musical form as a pattern of repeated (same-letter) and contrasting (different-letter) sections
• Element changes (tempo, dynamics, texture, form) occurring in an unfamiliar recording
• The standard of evidence linking a verbal claim about music to a specific, checkable moment in a recording
• The general routine of citing specific, verifiable evidence for a claim about any piece of music

Every lesson is written for a parent with no teaching background: it opens with a short script to read aloud, names the specific wrong idea a student is likely to reach for and how to correct it, and closes with a practice sheet you may copy for your household. Scripture references are King James Version throughout. Black-and-white, 8.5 x 11 in. The whole year of this course is also in this store as a single book.

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