Age Range: 7 - 11
By: A Visitor
The concept of musical elements proved to be a tricky concept for the children in my class, so the music teacher made up this song to help them. She taught each verse as they were learning about that aspect of music. By the end of the term the children knew the complete song. They love singing the song and it helped them to talk about the music that they were composing themselves.
The words should be sung to the tune of Twinkle, twinkle little star.
Pitch means sound are high or low.
Tempo means go fast or slow.
Dynamics can go with a BANG!
Or make a sound as quietly as you can.
Pitch means sounds are high or low.
Tempo means go fast or slow.
Over and over and over again
Ostinato is the name.
Duration can be short or long
The length of sounds in a tune or a song.
Over and over and over again
Ostinato is the name.
Rhythm makes a pattern of sounds.
(Clap clap-clap clap clap/clap-clap clap claap)
Pulse will keep a steady beat
Sounds like slowly marching feet.
Rhythm makes a pattern of sounds.
(Clap clap-clap clap clap/clap-clap clap claap)
Timbre is quite hard to say.
Listen to the instruments play
Bright and bold, harsh or hollow.
Maybe gentle, warm or mellow.
Timbre is quite hard to say.
Listen to the instruments play.
(Words by Christine Brown)
today!
Comments
Peterson
29th March 2011
how about pace, crescendo,decrescendo,rhythm,soprano,and silence ?
Izzy
25th May 2011
cool! This is gonna help with my GCSE
Asdfoip
29th May 2011
Cool song! helped with my homework, so thankyou!
Anonymous
10th November 2011
Clap-Clap-Clap 5 star so helps me with my homework.
Tinkle Star
22nd April 2012
That was great! That really is going to help with my homework! Thanks! :D
man
18th September 2012
Helped me with my elements of music work great job.
kitty
9th January 2013
timbre is actually quite hard to saylol thx for GCSE help ill show to ma frends
this is good
17th June 2016
this is good
Anabel
30th June 2016
Thanks! It will help me to remember those elements.
boayem
1st October 2016
Nice idea!
Kiwi
17th October 2019
This is a great rhyme to help with tests, homework or just remembering it, however it is very long and very hard to remember because by the time you have remembered the next line you forget the one you just did. But thank you. .
Vicky
2nd November 2021
Hi! These were so helpful for my grade 4 class. I was inspired to add these lines as well, since we were learning about the orchestra and choir voice. I thought I would share.
Musicians play an instrument,
Composers wrote the songs they print,
Conductors tell them how to play,
Lis-ten to all that they say.
Choirs sing with the orchestra,
Lis-ten to the la-la-la.
Sopranos sing close to the sky,
Hear them singing high, high, high,
Altos sing just lower down,
These were the lady voices now.
Men sing either tenor or bass,
Bass is the lowest on the stage.