Responding to tempo changes within a song or piece of music | Music

Starter quiz

Before singing, it is important to ______ the voice and body.

'warm up' ✓
Call and response is a type of musical...

beat

tempo

structure ✓
We can describe the tempo of the music as...

low or high

slow or fast ✓

quiet or loud.
Match the musical element to the definition.

tempo

⇔

how fast or slow the music is played ✓

pulse

⇔

the regular, steady heartbeat of the music ✓

beat

⇔

the playing or showing of the steady pulse like the ticking of a clock ✓

Tempo is...

how high or low the music is.

how fast or slow the music is. ✓

how loud or quiet the music is.
True or false, music can speed up and slow down in the same piece.

'true' ✓
When music gets faster, we call this...

higher pitch

accelerando ✓

lower pitch

rallentando
When music gets slower, there is a...

rallentando ✓

quieter note

accelerando

louder note

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Tempo can change within a piece of music.
Movement can help us to feel, show and hear the changing tempo.
We know a piece of music can speed up (accelerando) or slow down (rallentando).
When the tempo changes within a piece of music, it changes how the music feels and helps us create stories in our mind.

The tempo always stays the same throughout a piece of music.

Although we learn to feel the pulse and follow the steady beat, music can get gradually faster or gradually slower.