WORKBOOK: MODULE 7
NAME:Exercise 7.6
Identify the key for the following pieces. Circle the pitches that are altered by the key signature. Identify the
meter and write in the counts below the melodies. Count, clap and sing each melody.
- “Pupu O Ewa” (“Pearly Shells”) (W. Edwards, L. Pober)
This Hawaiian melody divides into two sections called phrases.Can you locate the second phrase, which
begins the same as the opening measure? How is the beginning of the second phrase the same as the first
phrase, and how is it different?
Key Meter
- “Day-O” (The Banana Boat Song), Jamaican folk song
When singing “Day-O” you may shout at the “X” in measures 10 and 12.
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Vocabularynote
REPEAT SIGN
D.S. al Fineor Dal Segno al Fine(“to the sign”) directs the performer to return to the sign and end at Fine(“the end”). Here,
play measures 1–12 then measures 3–4.%
Vocabulary note
PHRASE
Aphraseis a musical sentence, usually between four and eight measures in length. Frequently, a melody will divide into two
phrases, the first ending with the dominant (the antecedent phrase) and the second ending with the tonic (the consequent phrase).
Phrase endings are often signaled by a rest or a longer note value.