Scouting/BSA/Music Merit Badge
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[edit] Requirement 1
- Sing or play a simple song or hymn chosen by your counselor using good technique, phrasing, tone, rhythm, and dynamics. Read all the signs and terms of the score.
[edit] Requirement 2
- Name the five general groups of musical instruments. Tell how you get tones from one instrument in each group.
The academic study of musical instruments is called organology.
Instruments are most of the time divided by the way in which they generate sound:
- Wind instruments generate a sound when a column of air is made to vibrate inside them. The frequency of the wave generated is related to the length of the column of air and the shape of the instrument, while the tone quality of the sound generated is affected by the construction of the instrument and method of tone production.
- Percussion instruments create sound, with or without pitch, when struck. The shape and material of the part of the instrument to be struck and the shape of the resonating cavity, if any, determine the sound of the instrument.
- String instruments generate a sound when a string is plucked, strummed, slapped, etc. The frequency of the wave generated (and therefore the note produced) usually depends on the length of the vibrating portion of the string, the tension of each string and the point at which the string is excited; the tone quality varies with the construction of the resonating cavity.
- Electronic instruments generate sound through electronic means. They often mimic other instruments in their design, particularly keyboards.
- Brass instruments are instruments you use a mouth piece to "BUZZ" into to make a sound. There are two differnt kinds of brass: low and high. Brass contains Instruments like tuba trumpet trombone etc.
Many alternate divisions and further subdivisions of instruments exist. To learn about a specific instrument, consult the list of musical instruments or List of archaic musical instruments.
All classes of instruments save the electronic are mentioned in ancient sources, such as Egyptian inscriptions and the Bible, and probably predate recorded history. The human body, generating both vocal and percussive sounds, may have been the first instrument, or, perhaps, found percussion instruments such as stones and hollow logs. Nine-thousand-year-old bone flutes or recorders have been found in Chinese archeological sites.
[edit] Requirement 3
- Go to a classical or semiclassical musical performance or listen to three hours of such programs on radio, television, compact discs, tapes, records, or videos. Report what you heard. Name the composers, artists, and conductors. Know the story of any program music or opera you heard. Discuss how you feel about the music.
- Outline the development of music in the United States. Show that you know the lives and works of five better-known American composers and musical artists.
See Music of the United States.
- Serve for six months as a member of a school, church, Scout unit, or other local musical organization, or perform as a soloist in public six times.
[edit] Requirement 4
- Teach three songs to a group of people. Lead them in singing the songs, using proper hand motions.
- Compose and write the score for a piece of music twelve measures or more.
- Make a primitive instrument and learn to play it.
- Catalog your own or your family's collection of 12 or more compact discs, tapes or records. Show how to handle and store them.
[edit] External Links
- Music Merit Badge with Workbook PDF, current requirements, and resources.
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