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Jake and Jackie Learn Some Musical Terms, Part 1

Jake and Jackie Learn Some Musical Terms, Part 1
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     edHelper's suggested reading level:   grades 4 to 5
     Flesch-Kincaid grade level:   4.88

Vocabulary
     challenging words:    appreciation, aria, additional, focus, imaginative, paced, tended, background, musical, practical, often, lively, several, case, believe, test
     content words:    Both Jake, Classical Music, Gregorian Chant

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Jake and Jackie Learn Some Musical Terms, Part 1
By Beth Beutler 		  
1     "Concertos, arias, intervals--how am I ever going to remember all this?" Jackie muttered as she carried her violin case to the car.
 
2     Jake caught up with her, carrying his trumpet case. Both Jake and Jackie were involved with an after-school music program. Jackie took violin lessons, Jake took trumpet lessons, and both took a music appreciation course. Today's lesson had been on some musical terms that related to classical music.
 
3     "What are you muttering about?" Jake asked.
 
4     "I'm trying to remember all the words we learned today." Jackie replied.
 
5     "Why? There won't be a test." Jake tended to be practical about things. When it came to learning, he mostly focused on tasks he would be graded on. Jackie tended to be imaginative, read a lot, and liked to remember all the new things she learned. It didn't matter to her whether there would be a test.
 
6     Jackie rolled her eyes at Jake. "I just want to remember, that's all."
 
7     "Well, let's practice. We learned ten terms today. Remember that the teacher said they were the start of her ABC's of Classical Music."
 
8     "That's right," Jackie said. "There was aria, which is a song in an opera, Baroque was a period of time in the 1600's, and concerto, which focuses on one instrument, or a small group of instruments within an orchestra. What was 'D'?"
 
9     "'D' was duet, which is a piece involving two instruments or singers. Then came encore, which is an additional piece performed after an audience expresses enthusiastic appreciation. Fugue came next, which was a piece that usually built on a theme and included three to six singers, and Gregorian Chant, which was when several voices sang the same notes with little focus on rhythm."

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