Week 3 and 4 – Jss 3 First Term Music Lesson Notes

WEEK THREE
Minor, Augmented and Diminished interval
An interval is described as a musical distance between two notes or pitches.
However, the following interval are part of the qualities of intervals. We shall look at the examples on each of the above mentioned qualities of interval.

 Minor intervals – when major interval is reduced or flattened its becomes minor .
Examples :-

min 3^rd min 6^th min 2^nd min 3^rd min 7^th

 
 Augmented interval :- when perfect or major interval is increased or sharpened it becomes augmented interval
Examples :

  Aug 4^th aug. 5^th aug. 5^th aug. 4^th aug. 4^th

 
 
 
 Diminished interval :- when perfect or minor interval is reduced or lowered it becomes diminished.
Examples :

  Dim 4^th dim 5^th dim 5^th dim 3^rd dim 3^rd

 
  Exercise
Identify the following intervals

WEEK FOUR
SIMPLE AND COMPOUND TIME
in one of our previous lessons you will remembered that time signature has been discussed i.e Time signature is made up of two figures, one place over the other
e.g

 The upper figure tells us how many beats are there in a bar while the lower or bottom figure indicates the kind of beat.
Bottom Figures always have the following figures in both simple and compound time signature

is represented by figure 2

Is represented by figure 4

Is represented by figure 8

 From the foregoing
4 Means that there are four minim beats in a bar

 
 3 Means that there are three crotchet beat in a bar

 
 3 Means that there are three quavers beat in a bar and so on

Exercises
Write the following time signature in words
a 6

 b 4

 c 2

 
 d 3

 
 e 2