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Creativity projects
  1. Compose a full melody from these first few notes: 1 2 3 4 5
  2. A melody without pitches: 1
  3. Compose a tune with only... 3 notes, 5 notes, 8 notes, the all chromatic scale
  4. Compose an ostinato to accompany one of these melodies... 1 2
  5. Compose a tune to play with this ostinato... 1 2




Musical Forms
  1. Listen to these musical works, find their structure and describe it in an A,B,C scheme (use our Form Describer):
    1. Listen to the Gavotte for Flute with Harpsicord & Cello Accomp. by Handel (R.Reid)
    2. Listen to the 'Dance of the Blessed Spirits' by Gluck
    3. Listen to the 'Ave Maria' by Gounod
    4. Listen to the Badinerie from Orchestral Suite No.2 in Bm, BWV.1067 by J.S. Bach
    5. Listen to this piece from 'Abdalazer' by Purcell




Musical Instruments
  1. Find the orchestral musical instrument behind each sound that you hear:
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Musical Basics
  1. In the Tempo, Rhythm & Meter lesson, you may study about the rhythm. Open our Basic Notes Writer and write down some rhythms (using these notes durations).




Music & Art
  1. Match the musical parts you hear and the photographs in here. Explain why you matched each pair:
    1. Sonata No.14 in C#m, Op.27 No.2 ________ by Beethoven
    2. _______ in C#m, Op.64 No.2 (J.Segor) by Chopin
    3. Sonata No.8 in Cm, Op.13 '_________' by Beethoven
    4. Capriccio ___________ for ________ (C.Tchiang) by Tarrega
    5. _____________ by Purcell

Wanderer above the sea of fog (c. 1818) Caspar David Friedrich, Kunsthalle, HamburgMoonlight in Finland - photo courtesy of Stephane EgnellThe Rehearsal (1873-78) Edgar Degas, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MAKothen - photograph courtesy of Johan De BoerMezzetin (c.1718-20) Jean-Antoine Watteau, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York