This document provides an overview of the BTEC Level 3 Music Technology Unit 14: Listening Skills for Music Technologists. The unit will teach students to name and describe three musical components - rhythm, melody, and harmony. Students will research recordings in different styles, analyze the musical components, and complete an ongoing listening logbook. The document defines various musical components and instructs students to create their own listening logbook to document music they listen to along with the genre, date, and three prominent musical components.

1. BTEC Level 3 Music Technology
Unit 14:
Listening Skills for Music Technologists.

2. By the end of todays session you
will be able to.
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Name 3 Musical Components
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Describe 3 Musical Components
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Explain how Musical Components affect a piece
of music.

3. What will you be doing in this
unit?
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Researching recordings in different styles
Analysing the Musical Components in those
recordings
Completing an on-going Listening log book/
diary

4. Musical Components
BPM
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Rhythm
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Melody
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Harmony
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Texture
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Articulation
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Tempo
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Timbre
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Dynamics
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Time Signatures
Tempo
Instructions

5. Rhythm
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Length of notes
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Number of notes
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Speed of notes
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Space between notes

6. Melody
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Main focus of a piece
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Played by a lead instrument (e.g vocals)
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Melody often includes Lyrics
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Clearer in a mix/recording
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Often the first part of a piece to be composed.

7. Melody Cont.

8. Harmony
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Two or more notes played together (e.g A
Chord)
Another performer playing the melody at a
different pitch.
Any line of music that is being played at a
different pitch to the Melody

9. Dynamics
How loud or quiet a part of the music is.

10. Time Signatures
How many beats are being played per bar.

11. Task
Create a Listening Logbook.
This can be a:
a Blog, a Powerpoint presentation, a Word document, a Website,
an Excel spreadsheet.
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The date/time you listened to the music
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How the music was discovered/where you accessed it
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The Genre of Music
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3 Musical Components featured in the piece

12. By the end of todays session you
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Name 3 Musical Components
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Describe 3 Musical Components
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Explain how Musical Components affect a piece
of music.