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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.
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beethovenlover
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Re: tunes for interval recognition
Reply #1 on: July 31, 2007, 08:21:50 AM
Perhaps this will help.
https://www.keystrokepublishing.com/html/sight_singing_tips.html
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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.
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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!
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ramseytheii
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Re: tunes for interval recognition
Reply #4 on: August 01, 2007, 02:15:48 AM
Quote from: beethovenlover on July 31, 2007, 08:21:50 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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penguinlover
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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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