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Offline luv2teach

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tunes for interval recognition
on: July 31, 2007, 07:48:01 AM
My students use tunes to name intervals, for example (P5 above sounds like Star Wars, +3 sounds like For He's A Jolly Good Fellow).

Does anyone have tunes they can suggest for the following intervals:

P5 below (e.g. G down to C)
P4 below
-3 below
P8 below

I told my students to sing the intervals backwards since they already have tunes for intervals going above, but they wanted tunes.

Offline beethovenlover

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Re: tunes for interval recognition
Reply #1 on: July 31, 2007, 08:21:50 AM
If you do not love music, you do not have a soul.

Offline lagin

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Re: tunes for interval recognition
Reply #2 on: July 31, 2007, 08:38:58 PM
P5 below is "Noel" the Christmas song.

P4 below is the opening two notes of the Baseball theme song.  You know, the one that goes C G A B C G A B (play it and you'll know what I'm talking about).

-3 below is "Jesus Loves Me."

P8 below I just sang it backwards in my head to see if it would sound like "Somewhere over the Rainbow," which is a P8 above.
Christians aren't perfect; just forgiven.

Offline luv2teach

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Re: tunes for interval recognition
Reply #3 on: August 01, 2007, 02:02:44 AM
Thank you!   Your replies are very helpful!

Offline ramseytheii

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Re: tunes for interval recognition
Reply #4 on: August 01, 2007, 02:15:48 AM
Perhaps this will help.

https://www.keystrokepublishing.com/html/sight_singing_tips.html

Terrific website!  I'm going to hang on to that one.  many thanks,

Walter Ramsey

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Re: tunes for interval recognition
Reply #5 on: August 01, 2007, 05:58:26 AM
For the low 5th, I use this.  It is hard to explain, but in the Wizard of Oz, the chant that the monkeys use in the witch's castle is a fifth.  "Here Comes the Bride" for the 4th, "My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean" for the sixth.
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