Lesson #2 Title:

Changing Intervals (Major, Minor and Perfect Intervals)

Lesson #2 Learning
Goals
Students will:

Be able to understand how major, minor and perfect intervals work

Be able to identify them as both melodic and harmonic on paper and by ear

Understand these intervals as they relate to the major scale

Overall Expectations:

C1. Creating and Performing: apply the creative process to create and perform music for a
variety of purposes, using the elements and techniques of music
Specific Expectations / Learning Objectives (Refer to Provincial Curriculum document)
Element(s) of Music:
pitch: ledger lines above or below the staff; major, minor, and perfect intervals (e.g. major third,
perfect fifth)
C1.5 demonstrate an understanding of standard and other types of musical notation through
performance and composition
Introductory Activities:
Warm-up, review, new terminology,
Hook

Learning Activities:
Presentation,
modeling,
understanding,
guided
independent application

Who here remembers what a major scale is?

Prompt for tone/semi-tone pattern

2 mins

Review: tone/semi-tone pattern and then explain 8 mins

that a major scale is made up of major and perfect
intervals as a result of this pattern
Demonstrate: how to count half-steps and whole5 mins
check
for steps and break into pairs on the pianos to allow
practice, students to determine which intervals have which
number of whole and half-steps
10
Worksheet: Begin as a class to complete the first mins
few questions for Major & Perfect Intervals then
assign them to finish the worksheet in pairs

Closing:
Make sense, recap, reinforce

Take-up: part (if not all) of worksheet to ensure

understanding of the new concept

7 mins

Homework:
Reinforces or foreshadows lesson

Worksheet: Minor Intervals to be completed at

home

8 mins

Materials and Resources Required For Lesson

Technology Hardware

Projector

Technology Software

Internet Browser / finale music notation 2008 or higher

Printed Materials

Worksheets Major & Perfect Intervals and Minor Intervals

Supplies / Equipment

Pencils - notebooks

Internet
Resources/References

www.musictheory.net

Other Resources/References n/a

Others

n/a

Accommodations / Modifications (differentiated instruction)

Resource Student

Modify the worksheet as not to introduce minor intervals for the time being.
Have these students focus on re-identifying the basic intervals as major and
perfect accordingly.

Gifted Student

Prompt for further understanding of the concept of changing the intervals (i.e.
diminished and augmented intervals).

Non-Native
Speaker

During work time, sit with student to assist with reading the activity to fully
understand the task.

Unit Glossary of Terms

Major
Interval
Consonance
Minor
Perfect
Dissonance

Melodic

Sequence

Monophonic

Unison

Harmonic

Simultaneous

Polyphonic

Octave

Appendix
See attached (handouts, quizzes, rubrics, checklists, etc)