Week 3: Music Reading
Week 3: Music Reading
Unit: Music Reading
Monday is a Digital Learning Day — your lesson is waiting on CTLS. The rest of the week you switch from making sound to reading and writing it. You will learn the staff, the treble and bass clefs, and how to find any note on a piano keyboard, then add note values, rests, and time signatures so you can read rhythm as well as pitch. From Wednesday on you work in MuseScore, where you transcribe Beethoven’s Ode to Joy and then a mystery melody you have to identify by ear after you have written it down.
Weekly Schedule
| Day | Date | Topic | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | Mon 8/17 | Day 11: Digital Learning Day — Catch Up and Review | Digital Learning Day — complete the assigned lesson on CTLS. |
| 12 | Tue 8/18 | Day 12: Music Reading 101 | Learn the staff, the treble and bass clefs, the grand staff, and the piano keyboard, then practice note identification on musictheory.net. |
| 13 | Wed 8/19 | Day 13: Rhythm Primer & Meet MuseScore | Learn note values, rests, and time signatures in a short BEACON period, then open MuseScore and enter your first notes. |
| 14 | Thu 8/20 | Day 14: Ode to Joy Transcription | Read Beethoven’s Ode to Joy from notation and enter all eight measures into MuseScore, then export it as a PDF and turn it in. |
| 15 | Fri 8/21 | Day 15: Mystery Transcription | Transcribe an untitled melody into MuseScore, play it back to figure out what song it is, then title your score and turn it in. |
Graded Assignments
- Ode to Joy (due Thursday 8/20) — Enter all eight measures of the Ode to Joy melody into MuseScore and upload the PDF to CTLS.
- Mystery Transcription (due Friday 8/21) — Transcribe the mystery melody into MuseScore, type the song title onto the score, and upload the PDF to CTLS.
Late work will receive a one-time 20 point deduction.
Late work will receive a one-time 20 point deduction.
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