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Music Theory Practice Exercises

The document provides practice exercises on music fundamentals including: 1. Defining a staff and identifying the singing and pitch names on the lines and spaces. 2. Drawing a staff and placing singing and pitch names in the correct positions. 3. Identifying musical terms like scale, pitch, tone, half step, sharp, flat, and natural sign. 4. Discussing how tones below the tonic are indicated in scale names and the purpose of ledger lines extending the staff.

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Music Theory Practice Exercises

The document provides practice exercises on music fundamentals including: 1. Defining a staff and identifying the singing and pitch names on the lines and spaces. 2. Drawing a staff and placing singing and pitch names in the correct positions. 3. Identifying musical terms like scale, pitch, tone, half step, sharp, flat, and natural sign. 4. Discussing how tones below the tonic are indicated in scale names and the purpose of ledger lines extending the staff.

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KRISTINE JOYCE M.

NODALO BEED-III

PRACTICE EXERCISES:

A. Questions to Answer :

1. What is a staff?
-A staff is composed of 5 horizontal, parallel lines spaced in 4 equal spaces. It is where
tones can be represented by notes.

2. What are the singing names on the lines?


-mi, sol, ti, re, fa

3. What are the singing names on the spaces?


-fa, la, do, mi

4. What are the pitch names of the lines?


-E, G, B , D, F

5. What are the pitch names of the spaces?


-F, A, C, E

6. What is the best way to remember the pitch names of the lines?
- Every Good Boy Does Fine

The pitch names of the spaces?


-FACE

Something to Do:
1. Draw on a clean piece of paper the staff below, then place and identify the singing
names on the right side of the lines and Spaces.

5th line fa
4th line re
3rd line ti
2nd line sol
1st line mi

2. Draw the Staff and place the pitch names on the right side of the lines and spaces.

5th line F 4th space E

4th line D 3rd space C


3RD line B 2nd space A
2nd line G 1st space F
1st line E

3. Illustrate the following musical names.


a. G Clef
b. F Clef
c. G Staff
d. F Staff
PRACTICAL EXERCISES:

A. Complete the following with the correct words:

1. A succession of tones arranged in a regular order ascending or descending is


called Scale.

2. A Pitch is the highness or lowness of a musical sound.

3. A Tone is a musical sound.

4-5. The two kinds of scales according to the interval are Dianotic Scale and
Chromatic Scale

B. Identify:

1. Half steps or semitones.


-Smallest Interval in music.

2. Raises the pitch of the note a half step.


-Sharp

3.Lowers the pitch of the note a half step.


-Flat

4. Note written between two notes.


-Intermediate Note

5. What are the 5 intermediate notes ascending?


-Di, Ri, Fi, Si (sel), Li

6. Cancels the effect of the sharp or the flat.


- The Natural Sign or Cancel

C. Answer the following briefly:

1. How are the tones below the tonic indicated in the scale name above the
tonic?

-The tones below the tonic or the tone above are indicated by a short line below
the scale name.

2. What are the short lines above or below the staff?

-Ledger lines.

3. Why are they necessary?

-The purpose of these lines is to extend the staff in both directions up and down.

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