2016, Term 3, Weeks 3 & 4: Musical Maths Week

 Who knew that Gangnam Style could help you with your maths? ("Transformation Style": reflections, rotations and translations)

Check out this interesting video which relates sounds to doodle art drawn  on a grid.  See if you can work out how each sound is represented by the lines and patterns on the grid.  What happens when the lines are erased? How does this combine music and maths? 

Look at the patterns the notes make in this "Synthesia" version of Chopin's Fantasie-Impromptu (Opus 66).

 Which of the symbols below is/are: 
a semibreve, a minim, a dotted minim, a crotchet, a minim rest, quavers, a crotchet rest, a semibreve rest? 

Which ones have 1 beat, 2 beats, 3 beats, 4 beats?
What do you call a note that has half a beat?  
Which ones are rests?  

From  O for Tuna 

 Show your answers as a single note. Are there any other ways you could show your answer? 
 

Follow this link for extra practice with note values. 

What's the time?

Add five bar lines to make 5 bars of 4 beats in each bar. Remember that some notes are longer than one beat and some notes are shorter than one beat.

 

And now for some pirate maths: 

When You Subtract with a Pirate  

When You Add with a Pirate  

and a pirate dance (with lyrics) 

 A Pirate You Shall Be (Just Dance HD)

This is the Auckland Symphony Orchestra playing the theme music of Pirates of the Caribbean.   

 - What instruments can you identify? 

- How many different ways are the instruments played? 

- Where does the music change in tempo (speed/timing) or dynamics (loudness and softness)? 

- What instruments can you hear but not see played? 

Finally, Shiver My Timbers  from the Muppet movie Treasure Island.

Fibonacci Sequence in Music

Here is a piece of music based on the Fibonacci Sequence.   

Learn your 3 times table (multiples of 3) with a little help from a parody of Uptown Funk.