QR Challenge: N5 MUSIC MASTERCLASS

Created using the ClassTools QR Treasure Hunt Generator

Teacher Notes

A. Prior to the lesson:

1. Arrange students into groups. Each group needs at least ONE person who has a mobile device.

2. If their phone camera doesn't automatically detect and decode QR codes, ask students to

• Download a QR reader (e.g. I-Nigma | NeoReader | Kaywa) onto their mobile devices
• Bring these devices into the lesson.

3. Print out the QR codes.

4. Cut them out and place them around your class / school.

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B. The lesson:

1. Give each group a clipboard and a piece of paper so they can write down the decoded questions and their answers to them.

2. Explain to the students that the codes are hidden around the school. Each team will get ONE point for each question they correctly decode and copy down onto their sheet, and a further TWO points if they can then provide the correct answer and write this down underneath the question.

3. Away they go! The winner is the first team to return with the most correct answers in the time available. This could be within a lesson, or during a lunchbreak, or even over several days!

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C. TIPS / OTHER IDEAS

4. A detailed case study in how to set up a successful QR Scavenger Hunt using this tool can be found here.

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Questions / Answers (teacher reference)

Question	Answer
1. Describe the bass line often featured in Classical music. It was a favourite of Mozart.	Alberti Bass
2. What is a perfect cadence?	Music sounds finished
3. What is the name for the scale which only uses intervals of semitones?	Chromatic
4. What is an Aria?	Song from an Opera.
5. What is the name for a short passage at the end of a piece of music which brings it nicely to an end?	Coda
6. Describe the texture which is used to describe a solo instrument and piano accompaniment.	Homophonic
7. What tempo term means that the tempo is always changing?	Rubato
8. What is a Bothy Ballad?	Male work song
9. What is a Glissando?	Musical slide
10. 6/8, 9/8, 12/8 are all examples of what?	Compound time signatures
11. What is the name for a solo instrument accompanied by an orchestra?	Concerto
12. What is the name for a note or notes played before the main beat of the bar?	Anacrusis
13. What is a Drone?	Pedal note in bagpipes
14. What are the 3 key features of Ragtime?	Piano, Vamp accompaniment, Syncopated Melody.
15. What is the name for a piece of Scottish music which is made up words used to accompany dancing?	Mouth Music
16. Name the style of music which has accents on beats 2 & 4.	Reggae
17. Name the Scottish dance which is in simple time, the tempo is moderato and features dotted rhythms and Scotch Snaps.	Strathspey
18. What is a Scotch Snap?	Short note followed by a long note
19. What is a Canon?	One part plays the melody, then another follows straight after playing exactly the same thing
20. Name the 3 female voices in order highest - lowest.	Soprano, Mezzo Soprano, Alto
21. In a Concerto, what is the name for the passage where the orchestra stops and the soloist gets to show off?	Cadenza
22. What is a Pedal?	A long held, or repeated note in the bass
23. What is a Vamp?	Bass note - chord etc
24. What is a trill?	A fast alteration between 2 adjacent notes
25. What is the proper name for a change of key?	Modulation
26. What is the Italian term for playing muted?	Con Sordino
27. What is the word to describe unaccompanied vocal music?	A Cappella
28. Describe Melismatic.	Vocal music - Many notes per syllable
29. What is an imperfect cadence?	When the music sounds unfinished
30. What are the 2 words you could use to describe a texture where there are many parts moving rhythmically independantly?	Polyphonic/Contrapuntal
31. What is a Pibroch?	Piece for solo bagpipes
32. Describe Syllabic.	Vocal Music - one note per syllable
33. Name the scale which sounds dreamy.	Whole Tone Scale
34. What are the main features on Indian music?	Sitar & Tabla
35. What is Strophic?	Verse & Chorus form
36. What are the 2 ways in which you can play string instruments and what do they mean?	Arco - with the bow, Pizzicato - plucking
37. What is the name for a held or repeated note above the melody?	Inverted pedal
38. What are the 4 key features of a Waulking song?	Females, Q&A, Beating cloth, Gaelic
39. What is Contrary Motion?	When 2 parts move in opposite directions.
40. What is the name for the Scottish dance which is in Compound Time?	Jig

 

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