Names and Pitches of the C Major Scale

Materials:

The bells, a mallet, the bell table
8 black notes with the names of the pitches of the C major scale on one side and the numerals 1-8 on the other side

Purposes: To learn the names of the pitches of the C major scale

Age: 4 – 4 ½

Preparation: The child can pair and can grade the diatonic scale.

Presentation: Naming the Pitches

First Period

Second Period

Third Period

Presentation: Naming the Notes with the Pitches

First Period

Second Period

After notes are placed, slide them to the center of the table edge and start commands.
Give commands such as, “Play the pitch for E and place the note for E, touch the note for C, place the note for C, etc.”

Third Period

Slide the notes to the center. The guide plays each bell and asks the child the name of the pitch and to place each note as you play the bell.

**If the child is up to it, you may do three more.

**The next day-review the names of the notes from the prior lesson and try to present the rest.

Control of Error: The sequence of the numbers on the back of the notes should be in order 1-8.

Language: The names of the tones/pitches. Also, the word “note”

Following Exercises:

Associating the Notes and Their Corresponding Bell: Place the notes into a container and take one at random. Play the bell of the note and place the note in front. Do a couple and transfer it to the child.

Memory Games:

Distance Game with Bell and Notes: Ring the bell, place the memory marker, and then go find the note from a faraway table.

Pedagogical Notes:

The child should be playing the bell when working with the notes.
We are naming the sound (pitch/sound) not the bell.
The sensitive period for refinement of the sensory perception is fading at 4 ½, so this work needs to be introduced before then.
This lesson begins reading and writing music.
The C scale starts and ends in a C. There are no sharps and flats.

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