: Scrambled Music

Approach: Station Level: 4 & 8  Focus:   Listening to match melody and pitch    Resources: Computer program on laptop computer 376kb
Questions/instructions: This activity is done on the computer. Click on the button which says Scrambled Music. The computer will tell you what to do. [Students were asked to adjust three “missing” notes in a piece of music to match a tune played. They could play the model as many times as needed. They could also have their own adjusted tune played as many times as they wished until they thought it matched the model.] [Correct notation below, with missing notes in correct position in red.]
	% responses
	y4	y8
first note correct (C1)	38	67
second note correct (G)	29	52
third note correct (B)	25	45
Total score:           3	9	31
2	15	23
1	35	25
0	41	21
Commentary: About 30 percent more year 8 than year 4 students placed all three notes correctly. Notes had to be placed very accurately or they played a semitone too high or low.

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