LESSON 1:

RHYTHM
Musical Symbols and
Concepts (Notes and Rests)

Rhythm

Ostinato

Time Signature
 Notes and Rests
What are the symbols in music?
Music is made of sounds silences. Symbols
are used to indicate sounds and silences. The
symbol for musical sound is the note. The
rests is for silence in music. The notes and
rests also represent beat.
RHYTHM
The life of music is rhythm. Rhythm is
movement. It is the beat or the pulse that
gives life to the music. Rhythmic beats are
moving, and as they are moving, they may be
accented or unaccented.
 While the beats are
METER moving, they are grouped
in twos, threes, or fours.
The grouping of beats in
twos, threes, or fours is
called meter. The word
“meter” came from the
Greek word “ metron”
which means “ to
measure”.
The time signature is
a fraction-like
number that tells you
the amount and types
of notes contained in a
measure. The number
above tells you the
number of beats in a
measure.
Notes and Rests
 4. signature
2. Staff 3. Half note
5. Eight note

1. Whole note

6. Dotted quarter
note
10.Rest
8. Sharp
7.Sixteenth note
9. Quarter note
 Melodic
Intervals Scales contours

Lesson 2: Melody

Patterns of Successive
Pitches of C-major
scale
 “Si Pilemon, Si Pilemon”

Si Pilemon, si Pilemon namasol sa kadagatan.

Nakakuha, nakakuha og isdang tambasakan.
Gibaligya, gibaligya sa merkadong guba—
Ang halin pulos kura, ang halin pulos kura,
Igo lang ipanuba.
 ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF LYRICS
Philemon, Philemon went to sea to catch some fish
He was able to get, to get only a small mudskipper.
He sold it, sold it at a dilapidated market
For it he got nothing much, nothing much
Just enough to buy tuba.
 Melody

Is a group of pitches or tones that can be heard

one after the other
Melody
 Melody

Ascending- a scale ordered Descending- a scale ordered by

by increasing pitch is decreasing pitch is a descending
an ascending scale scale.
Ascending- a scale ordered by increasing pitch is an ascending scale
Descending- a scale ordered by decreasing pitch is a descending
scale.
 Movement of melody may be:

1. Ascending Descending
 Movement of melody may be:

2. Ascending Descending