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== Objectives ==
== Objectives ==
* Students will be familiar with the nature of sound: how it is created and how it propagates through a medium.
* Student will understand the basic nature of sound as vibration and how it propagates through a medium.
* Student will understand the concepts of frequency/amplitude and how they relate to pitch, loudness, and the media through which sounds travel.
* Student will be able to describe sound based on a visual representation on a spectrogram, time-frequency graph, or oscilloscope trace.
* Student will identify the basic components of musical sound: pitch (melody vs. harmony), texture, rhythm/meter (duration), timbre.


== Resources ==
== Resources ==

Revision as of 22:12, 14 July 2020

This lesson is part of the Fundamentals of Sound & Music module.

Objectives

  • Student will understand the basic nature of sound as vibration and how it propagates through a medium.
  • Student will understand the concepts of frequency/amplitude and how they relate to pitch, loudness, and the media through which sounds travel.
  • Student will be able to describe sound based on a visual representation on a spectrogram, time-frequency graph, or oscilloscope trace.
  • Student will identify the basic components of musical sound: pitch (melody vs. harmony), texture, rhythm/meter (duration), timbre.

Resources

Class Activities

  • Discussion and definition of the physical properties of sound and how it is created

Assignments

Assessments

  • Comprehension questions

Notes