Recognizing High and Low Pitch

Young scholars explore making sounds with various objects. In this vocal chords lesson students experiment with their voices and other objects to make sound and change pitch. They simulate a sound-wave.

Prior to playing their Tutti instruments, fifth graders practice harmony, pitch, and rhythm. They sing, clap, and echo the musical pattern they are going to play, focusing on harmony and pitch. They then practice the same song on their...

Take the guesswork out of instructing younger learners how to play in a music ensemble. Provide here are the steps to teaching and engaging them in practicing a song using rhythm and pitch. Orff instruments are used for this lesson.

Get out your Orff instruments and the text, Spotlight on Music, it's time to instruct the class in playing and performing music. They'll practice pitch, rhythm, and harmony by clapping and singing, then apply what they've learned as they...

Pupils practice combining relative pitch and reading music. They create, read and perform music on their own as they combine music and art to the concepts of differing pitches and reading music. Each student present their creations to...

Students investigate music and what causes the pitch of a sound.  For this sound properties lesson, students listen to a story about animals and the instinctual pitch they have in their voice and how musicians have that as well....

Students explore how pitch changes when using instruments that are plucked, blown, and hit. In this sound and pitch lesson, students blow across the top of bottles that are filled with water to create sound. Students use recorders...

Students explore vocal anatomy. In this biology/music lesson, students first learn vocabulary associated with the voice and body. They then use straws, microphones and recorders to differentiate between high and low pitches and...

Stduents reinforce pitch recognition. Changing passing tones to hums and later to just thinking them in the mind s ear, the pitch phrase is reduced to the skip or interval desir

Students discuss meaning of pitch, listen for different sounds in classroom, hallway, and outdoors, and listen to sounds played on piano and on computer to determine high or low pitch.