Tonal Pre-Assessment

Goal: To help Sr. Davis understand what aural and tonal understandings students currently have. To be done again at the end of the year.

Skills assessed:

• Pitch Matching - do the pitches match or not?

• Major or Minor - is the pattern in a major or minor tonality?

• Steps or Leaps - did the pattern use all stepwise motion, or include leaps (skipping over) pitches?

• Translating Music Patterns - can students translate an aural pattern into solfege?

• Simple Rhythms - can students transcribe a simple rhythm into notation?