1. Pitch
Listen to the sounds around you.What are the different sounds that
you hear?Which sounds are high and which sounds are low? Is it not
amazing to hear these sounds?
2. Each tone you hear in music has a pitch. Pitch is the highness or lowness of tones.
People, animals, and some objects make sounds that may be high or low.
The pitch of a sound or tone may be low, medium, or high. A low pitch has heavy,
dark, and thick sound. A high pitch has light and thin sound. A medium pitch has a
moderate sound that is neither too high nor too low.
Sing some lines of the song “Lupang Hinirang” according to its pitch.
high pitch
Lupa ng araw
Ng luwalhatit pagsinta
medium pitch
Bayang magiliw
Perlas ng silanganan
low pitch
Sa dagat at bundok
Sa simoy at
3. Line and Space Notes of
the Staff
Do you know how music is written? What are the basic tools needed to
compose a melodious musical piece?Writers have paper and pencil for
the stories they want to write. How about musicians?
4. Musicians need a guide where they can write the melody of their songs.They
need a musical staff where they will place the notes that represents different
pitches.
A Staff is made up of lines and spaces. It is
where notes are placed. It has five straight lines
and four equal spaces.
5. Notes can be drawn on the lines and in
the spaces of a staff. Study the
following. Notes drawn on the lines are
called line notes. Space notes are
drawn in the space.
