This doesn’t mean that children can’t learn music after the age of 9, of course, but that the language of musical enculturation is well under way by that age. Just as children’s aptitude to learn a foreign language stabilizes after the age of 9, Music researcher Edwin Gordon (2007) found that children’s musical aptitude is also developmental, fluctuating until age 9, and stabilizing afterwards. Singing Voices of Older Children Developmental Abilities This chapter will offer music suggestions to inspire older children, including cultural games, songs, and dances. The lower to middle elementary-aged child is ready for more complex listening, singing, and music making. They’re familiar with the musical genres, timbres, modes, and instruments, rhythmic and melodic patterns, and have learned the culturally acceptable cadences, harmonies, texture, and so forth. The songs and sounds they’ve absorbed are part of western musical style, and are now part of the musical lingua franca or the music that is “normal” for them. Older children, ages 6 and up, have listened to a great deal of musical material in their short lives. It covers their vocal ranges, preparation for multi-part singing including echo songs, ostinato patterns, drone and multi-part performing including polyphony (multiple melodies) such as rounds, partner songs, harmony and descants, as well as other age-appropriate repertoire such as cumulative songs, play-party songs, and African-American songs. ' Define the duration of a note in units of milliseconds.Chapter Summary: This chapter explores the uses of music with older elementary-aged children. ' Define the frequencies of notes in an octave, as well as Protected Shared Sub Play(tune() As Note)Ĭonsole.Beep(CInt(n.NoteTone), CInt(n.NoteDuration)) New Note(Tone.GbelowC, Duration.QUARTER), _
' Declare the first few notes of the song, "Mary Had A Little Lamb". ' This example demonstrates the Console.Beep(Int32, Int32) method This example plays the first few notes of "Mary Had A Little Lamb" Declare the first few notes of the song, "Mary Had A Little Lamb".Īrray^ Mary = ] System::Collections::IEnumerator^ myEnum = tune->GetEnumerator() Ĭonsole::Beep( (int)n.NoteTone, (int)n.NoteDuration ) Define properties to return the note's tone and duration.
Define a constructor to create a specific note. Define a note as a frequency (tone) and the amount of
Define the duration of a note in units of milliseconds. Define the frequencies of notes in an octave, as well as This example demonstrates the Console.Beep(Int32, Int32) method This example demonstrates the Beep method by playing the first few notes of a song through the console speaker. The current operating system is not Windows. 'Usage: Enter the number of times (between 1 and 9) to beepīy default, the beep plays at a frequency of 800 hertz for a duration of 200 milliseconds. ' This example demonstrates the Console.Beep() method.ĪndAlso (Int32.TryParse(args(0), x) = True) _ Usage: Enter the number of times (between 1 and 9) to beep This example produces the following results: (Int32.TryParse(args, out x) = true) &Ĭonsole.WriteLine "Usage: Enter the number of times (between 1 and 9) to beep." This example demonstrates the Console.Beep() method. This example demonstrates the Console.Beep() method.Īrray^args = Environment::GetCommandLineArgs() The example accepts a number from 1 through 9 as a command line argument, and plays the beep that number of times.
The following example demonstrates the Beep method. This method was executed on a server, such as SQL Server, that does not permit access to a user interface.
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