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1
Pick one of your favorite pieces of music and describe it using as many terms from this unit as possible.
2
Listen to two different musical selections from your text’s CDs. Using the vocabulary you have learned from this chapter compare and contrast them.
3
Is there music you hear on a daily basis that does not have meter? Why, or why not?
4
Find a song that uses the pentatonic scale.
5
Attend a live performance of music and take notes on how many different kinds of dynamics you hear. Do you think that the variations of loudness and softness contribute to the excitement and drama of a performance?
6
Use one of the CDs that accompany your text and find one piece that is clearly uses a major scale; one minor scale and one chromatic scale. How does the choice of “scale” affect the overall style of the piece you heard? For an extra challenge find a piece that uses a “pentatonic” scale.
7
By using the CDs that accompany your text play “Take Five” by Paul Desmond and “Boplicity” by Dizzy Gillespie – which one has a melodic line with few leaps and which one has many leaps? Can you explain your answer?







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