Concepts

Music concepts presented in UP and RINGING

Underlined titles are links to playback files.
More playback files will be posted eventually.
Playback of chordal accompaniments include the melody on a contrasting instrument.

Skill #1- Whole Notes

• Elements of the staff: lines, spaces, clefs, bar lines, double bar
• Whole note, whole rest
• Ringing stroke and damping
• Measure numbers
• Performance possibilities
        Chords to accompany America the Beautiful
        Donut Holes (Angel Haloes)

Skill #2 - Half Notes

• Half note, half rest
• Flat and the key signature with one flat
• Fermata
• Performance possibilities
       Chords to accompany Deep and Wide
       Chords to accompany Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star
       Chords to accompany Angels We Have Heard on High
         Quiet Moments (playback file will be posted eventually)
  

Skill #3 - Quarter Notes

• Quarter note, quarter rest
• Stress on counting
        Putting It All Together (uses all the rhythmic values learned so far)
  
• Sharp and the key signature with one sharp
        Yankee Doodle
        Clouds and Sunshine
  
• Repeat sign
• Performance possibilities
        Chords to accompany Ode to Joy
           Memorial (playback file will be posted eventually)

Skill #4 - 3/4 Meter

• Introduces meter
• Dotted half note
• Tie
• Dynamic marks: f   p   mf
• Key signature with two flats
• Key signature with two sharps
• Crescendo
• D. C. al Fine
• Performance possibilities
         Chords to accompany Silent Night
         Come Boating with Me (Italian folk song in 3/4 meter)
         Chords to accompany America
         Chords to accompany Kum Bah Yah
         Full Moon
             Celebration Chimes (an excellent first performance piece)
             Whistler's Tune (a program piece in 3/4 with hairpin crescendo and a repeat sign)
             Salute to New Ringers (a final piece to let the ringers realize how much they have learned)

  Page updated on September 11, 2011