Musical Content On Rhythm and Tempo

MUSICAL
CONTENT ON
RHYTHM AND
TEMPO
IVY GRACE D. MAHUSAY
RINA JEAN D. MAHUSAY
OBJECTIVES
In this lesson, the student will be able to:
1. Get a bird's-eye view of content topics under

rhythm and tempo as written in the Department of
Education (DepEd) curriculum; and
2. Review and familiarize with the musical content
pertaining to rhythm and tempo.
RHYTHM
For Grades 1, 2, and 3:
 - Difference between Sound and Silence
 - Steady Beats
 - Simple Rhythmic Patterns
 - Ostinato
For Grades 4 and 5:
 - Notes and Rests
 - Rhythmic Patterns
 - Meter and Simple Time Signatures
 - Ostinato
For Grades 6 :
 - Same content as Grade 4 and 5, with me
addition of time signature
TEMPO

For Grades 1 and 2

- Speed of Sound it Music
Difference between Slow and Fast in Music
For grade 3
Same content as Grades 1 and 2, with the addition of
conducting gestures
For Grade 4:
Tempo Markings: Largo and Presto
For Grades 5 and 6:
- Tempo Markings: Largo, Presto, Allegro, Moderato,
Andante, Vivace, Ritardando and Accelerando
Now, let us review some important musical concepts under
Rhythm:
1. Rhythm – is the aspect that covers the flow and movement
of music as ordered in time.
2. Meter- is a repeating pattern of strong and weak beats.
Meter can be categorized between simple and compound.
a. Simple Meter- is the type of meter wherein each beat in a

measure of music can be naturally divided into two equal
parts.
b. b. Compound Meter- is the type of meter wherein each
beat in a measure of music can be naturally divided into
three equal parts.
The common types of meter used are: duple, triple, and
quadruple meter.
a. Duple Meter-is the type of meter where beats

are grouped in twos. The best example of this is
a march, reflecting the movement of our two
feet. See the following example:
ONE TWO, ONE TWO, ONE TWO; or left right, left right
1 2 1 2 1 2
(There is a natural strong accent on beat one; beat two is
the weak beat)
B. Triple meter – is the type of meter where beats
are grouped in threes. An example of song that uses
this meter is “Bahay Kubo”.
ONE TWO THREE, ONE TWO THREE
 1 2 3 1 2 3
( there is a natural strong accent on beat one, while
two and three are both weak beats)
C. Quadruple Meter- is the type of meter

consisting of four beats. An example in the
Christmas song “ hark the Herald Angels Sing”
ONE TWO THREE FOUR, ONE TWO THREE FOUR

1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4
(One and three are the strongly accented beats,
while two and four are weak beats. Note: Beat one
is slightly stronger than beat theme, even if both of
them are considered strong beats)
Downbeats and Upbeats

A downbeat is the first beat in a bar or measure of
music, and usually has the strongest accent.
An upbeat is the last beat in a previous bar of
measure of music that immediately follows a
downbeat, in the me quadruple meter example
above, the first beat is the downbeat, while the
fourth beat is the upbeat.
3. Ostinato- is a short consistently repeated
pattern found all throughout a piece of
music or in one of its sections. It may be
melodic or rhythmic in nature. In a melodic
or ostinata, sometimes the pattern and/or
pitch is slightly changed for variation.
4. Different Notes and Their Time Values

Notes are symbols that depict how high or
low a musical pitch is, and also its duration.

TYPES OF NOTES AND THEIR
RESPECTIVE SYMBOLS
a. Whole Note-to be played

or sounded for 4 beats
b. Half Note-to be played or
sounded for 2 beats
c. Quarter Note to be played
or sounded for 1 beat
d. Eighth Note-to be played
or sounded for1\2 of a beat
e. Sixteenth Note-to be
played or sounded for 1\4 of
a beat
NOTE VALUES EQUIVALENCY
CHART
TYPES OF RESTS AND THEIR RESPECTIVE SYMBOLS
5. Different rests and their

time values
 Rests symbols that depict
silence or the absense of
sound.
a. Whole Rest- no sound
for 4 beats
b. Half Rest- no sound for 2
beats
c. Quarter Rest- no sound
for 1 beat
d. Eighth Rest- no sound
1\2 of a beat
e. Sixteenth Rest- no
sound for 1\4 of a beat
Time Signature
Its is a sign placed at the beginning of
a musical composition to indicate its meter.
It is made up of two numerals. A common
mistakes is to consider these two nemurals
as a fraction, for it is not. The upper
number indicates how many beats or
counts there are in one measure, while the
lower number tells what kind of notes
(whole, quarter, half, eighth, etc.) receives
one beat.
TEMPO:
Basically, it is how fast or slow a piece of music is
performed. The word tempo means “time” in Italian.
Conducting Gestures
Conducting with the hands is
important to ensure that
performance sing or play together in
time and to donate what meter or
time signature a piece of music is of.
Look at the following illustrations
for the different gestures when
conducting diffrent time signatures.

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MUSICAL

In this lesson, the student will be able to:

1. Get a bird's-eye view of content topics under

For Grades 1 and 2

a. Simple Meter- is the type of meter wherein each beat in a

a. Duple Meter-is the type of meter where beats

C. Quadruple Meter- is the type of meter

ONE TWO THREE FOUR, ONE TWO THREE FOUR

Downbeats and Upbeats

4. Different Notes and Their Time Values

a. Whole Note-to be played

5. Different rests and their

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