Disney Music Activity Book - An Introduction to Music

Compiled and Edited by
Sharon Stosur
ISBN 978-1-4584-0258-5
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Notes ................................................................4
The Music Alphabet ........................................5
Long and Short Notes .....................................6
Your First Song ...............................................6
Mary Had a Little Lamb .................................7
The Staff ..........................................................8
Notes on the Staff ...........................................9
The Keyboard ................................................10
Name the Keys ..............................................11
Play and Sing the Music Alphabet ...............12
Minnie’s Dance ..............................................12
Mickey, Row the Boat Ashore .......................13
Note Values ....................................................14
Coloring Fun ..................................................15
Connect the Dots ...........................................16
How Music Is Organized ...............................17
Counting Notes in 3 4 Time .............................18
Feed the Birds ...............................................18
Counting Notes in 4 4 Time .............................20
Safety First ....................................................20
Add the Missing Bar Lines ...........................22
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious ................22
Rests ..............................................................24
The Bare Necessities .....................................24
Repeat Sign ...................................................25
Crossword Fun ..............................................26
Note Reading Review ....................................27
Pick-up Notes ................................................28
The Work Song ..............................................28
Ties .................................................................30
1st and 2nd Endings .....................................30
Music Math ....................................................31
It’s a Small World ..........................................32
Steps and Skips .............................................34
Scales and Arpeggios ....................................36
Eighth Notes .................................................38
Counting Eighth Notes .................................39
Contents
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Eighth Rests ..................................................41
Colors of the Wind .........................................42
Never Smile at a Crocodile ...........................44
Happy Working Song ....................................46
Mickey’s Mixed-up Melody ...........................48
Lavender Blue (Dilly Dilly) ..........................48
Dotted Notes ..................................................50
Step in Time ..................................................51
A Whole New World ......................................52
Note Matching ...............................................55
True Love’s Kiss ............................................56
A New Time Signature: 6 8 ..............................58
Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo ......................................60
Buzz and Woody’s Challenge ........................62
Counting in 6 8 Time ........................................63
Mickey Mouse March ....................................64
Sharps ............................................................66
Sharps in the Forest ......................................67
Let’s Go Fly a Kite ........................................68
Flats ...............................................................70
Sharp or Flat? ...............................................71
D.C. al Fine ....................................................72
Dynamics .......................................................72
Chim Chim Cher-ee ......................................73
Can You Feel the Love Tonight .....................76
Beauty and the Beast ...................................78
Word Search ..................................................80
More About Sharps and Flats ......................81
Cruella De Vil ................................................82
Syncopation ...................................................85
Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah .......................................86
Which Is Syncopated? ...................................89
You’ve Got a Friend in Me ............................90
Under the Sea ...............................................92
Maze Fun .......................................................95
Answer Key ...................................................96

The Music Alphabet
Different notes have different names. But they
don’t have names like “Sneezy,” or “Grumpy.”
Notes have letter names. The Music Alphabet
is easy because it uses only seven letters:
A, B, C, D, E, F, and G.
Notes on paper are round. In this book, the letter name of each note is
written in the middle of the circle. And to help you while you
are first
learning the note names, each note has its own
color:
The Music Alphabet uses the same seven letters over and over again, from
low to high, and backwards, from high to low.
LOWER
HIGHER
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Coloring Fun
Use the note values to color Baloo. If the note equals four beats, color those
areas green. If the note equals two beats, color those areas brown. If the note
equals one beat, color the areas gray.
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Connect the Dots
Can you name this symbol?
11
10
12
9
13
8
14
15
7
16
23
22
17
24
6
21
18
25
19
20
1
5
2
3
4
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What makes music fun is the way the
seven letters of the music alphabet and
the long and short notes get all mixed
up together to make songs. Sometimes
it quacks me up! (Hee-hee-hee!)
How Music Is Organized
You already know about the staff, which shows you how high or low the notes
are. Here’s the staff with some added music symbols to help you read the
notes. You’ll always find a clef sign at the beginning of the song. Bar lines
divide the staff into measures, which contain groups of beats. Right next to the
clef sign is a time signature. The top number tells you how many beats are in
each measure. The 4 on the bottom reminds you that a quarter note equals
one beat. There is a double bar line at the end of the staff. This sign tells you
where the song ends.
Treble Clef
Time Signature
Bar or Bar Line
Measure
Double Bar
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Counting Notes in 3 4 Time
Here’s a new note, the dotted half note:
A dotted half note looks like a half note with an added dot.
This note equals three beats.
“Feed the Birds” has a 3 4
time signature. The number 3 on top tells us there
are three beats in each measure. Tap your foot or count along with the
numbers “1-2-3” for each measure to make sure that you keep a steady beat.
Feed the Birds
from Walt Disney’s MARY POPPINS
5 4 3 2 1 1 2 3 4 5
L.H.
R.H.
Three beats in every measure
C
Words and Music by Richard M. Sherman
and Robert B. Sherman
F
Count:
Feed
1
2
the
3
birds,
1 2 3
tup
1
- pence a
2 3
C
F
C
bag.
1
2 3
Tup
1
-
pence,
2
3
tup
1
-
pence,
2
3
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D7
G7
C
tup
1
- pence a
2 3
bag.
1
2 3
Feed
1
2
the
3
F
E
F
birds,
1 2 3
tup
1
- pence a
2 3
bag.
1
2 3
Tup
1
-
pence,
2
3
D7
G7
C
tup
1
-
pence,
2
3
tup
1
- pence a
2 3
bag.
1
2 3
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Counting Notes in 4 4 Time
“Safety First” has a
4 4 time signature. The number 4
on top tells us there are four beats in each measure.
Tap or count along to make
sure you keep
four steady beats
in each measure.
Safety First
Four beats in every measure
C
1 1 2
L.H.
3 4 5
R.H.
G
Words by Gil George
Music by Wanda Sykes
Count:
Safe
1
-
ty
2
first,
3
safe
4 1
-
ty
2
first,
3
be
4
C
F
care
1
-
ful
2
what
3
you
4
do.
1
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Don
2 3 4 1
-
ald
2
Duck,
3
4

C
G
Don
1
-
ald
2
Duck,
3
we
4
keep
1
an
2
eye
3
on
4
C
G
you.
1
Safe
2 3 4 1
-
ty
2
first,
3
safe
4 1
-
ty
2
first,
3
be
4
C
F
care
1
-
ful
2
what
3
you
4
do.
1
Don
2 3 4 1
-
ald
2
Duck,
3
4
C
G
C
Don
1
-
ald
2
Duck,
3
we
4
keep
1
an
2
eye
3
on
4
you.
1
2 3 4
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Music Math
Let’s do some music math! Add the values of the tied notes to find
the answer to each of these musical equations. The first one is done
for you. Check your answers on page 96.
1. 2.
+ =
2 1 3
_____ _____ _____
_____+ _____ + _____
= _____
3. 4.
_____ + _____
=
= _____
=
_____ + _____ + _____ =
_____
5. 6.
=
_____ + _____ =
_____
=
_____ + _____ =
_____
7.
=
_____ + _____ + _____ =
_____
8.
_____ + _____
=
= _____
9.
_____ + _____ + _____ + _____
=
10.
_____ + _____ + _____ + _____
=
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= _____
= _____

It’s a Small World
from Disneyland Resort ® and Magic Kingdom ® Park
5 4 3 2 1 1 2 3 4 5 (5)
L.H.
C
R.H.
Words and Music by Richard M. Sherman
and Robert B. Sherman
It’s a world
just
of
one
laugh
moon
- ter, a
and one
G7
world
gold
-
of
en
tears;
sun,
it’s
and
a
a
world
smile
of
means
C
hopes
friend
-
and
ship
a
to
world
ev
-
of
’ry
-
fears.
one.
There’s
Though
so
the
C7
F
much
moun
-
that
tains
we
di
-
share
vide
that
and
it’s
the
time
o
-
we’re
ceans
a
are
-
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