Just like literature and language, music is full of phrases or sentences. When someone writes a story, they put letters together to create words, then the words go together to create sentences, and finally you have an entire story. In music, we start with sounds, which are put together to make musical phrases, which are ultimately combined to make a song. Musical phrases do not necessarily have to have lyrics. Sounds and pitches can also create musical phrases that are felt. It is as if the sounds create statements, questions, and resolutions within a song that we can hear, feel, and interpret. The length of phrases are measured in beats. Most popular songs contain 4, 8, or 16 beat within a phrase. For example "Twinkle, twinkle little star" is the first phrases, and "How I wonder what you are" is the second phrase. The emphasis of the beat is indicated by the bold and underlined syllables. In this example the phrases have 4 beats. Music usually likes to be even, although phrases can also be 3, 6, or 9 beats long, such as in a waltz. In the examples provided, the 3rd Grade students created 4 beat phrases on the drums. Their phrases could included various rhythms and sounds on the drum, but it had to last for 4 beats! Enjoy!
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