Music and Numbers

•RhythmRhythm

•Time SignatureTime Signature

•TempoTempo

RhythmRhythm

Time SignatureTime Signature

Can you Can you conductconduct……

2244

Let’s conduct 2/4!

Overture to the opera “William Tell”Gioachino Rossini

http://www.sfskids.org/index.html?f=conduct

3344

Let’s conduct 3/4!

“Bolero”Maurice Ravel

http://www.sfskids.org/conduct/

4444

Let’s conduct 4/4!

“Dance of the Knights” from ballet“Romeo and Juliet”

Sergei Prokofiev

http://www.sfskids.org/conduct/

5544

Can you Can you countcount……

“Mission: Impossible” (5/4) Lalo Schifrin

7788

Kalamatianos (7/8)Traditional Greek Dance

9988

“Evdokias’ Zeimpekiko” (9/8)Manos Loizos

111144

“Eleven Four” (11/4)Dave Brubeck

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…and some really strange time signatures …

“No time (at all)”Brian Ferneyhough

“Piano piece 9”Karlheinz Stockhausen

TempoTempo

Tempometer!!!Tempometer!!!

Let’s use the metronome and our “tempometer” to find the tempo marking of some of the

music we have listened to today!

http://metronomer.com/

1. Overture to William Tell 2. Bolero 3. Dance of the Knights

4. Mission: Impossible

5. Kalamatianos

6. Zeimpekiko

7. Eleven four

Remember the little elephant?

Today we will write some lyrics about his little friend…

My rhino friendMusic: George Hadjipieris, Lyrics: Class D1