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Review: Divide Beats, Change Tempo, and Show a Scene

Fit short sounds into a beat, compare fast and slow beat plans, map loudness, and draw a still scene.

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1. In a 5-beat plan, beat 2 must contain two equal short sounds; each other beat has one longer sound. Which plan preserves all 5 beats?
Need a hint?
  • Dividing one beat into two equal parts changes its rhythm while preserving that beat’s total duration.
  • Two sounds do not automatically mean two beats.
2. Four equal-duration beat cells occupy the entire stated time in each plan: A occupies 5 seconds and B 2.5 seconds. Each cell is one beat duration, rather than a gap between two onsets. Which plan has faster beat spacing?
Need a hint?
  • Tempo describes the rate of a timing pulse.
  • Loudness was not supplied by a timing calculation.
3. A 4-part sound plan must grow softer, retaining equal pulse spacing. Which complete loudness map fits?
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  • Dynamics concern loudness.
  • The text describes intended loudness, not measured sound levels.
4. A silent frozen-picture plan should show deciding between paths. Which choice helps show that idea?
Need a hint?
  • A tableau is a held scene image.
  • A scene may support several interpretations.

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Try these four arts tasks. 1. In a 5-beat plan, beat 4 must contain two equal short sounds; each other beat has one longer sound. Which plan preserves all 5 beats? Choices: (A) Add an extra beat 6 for the second sound (B) Make every gap a different length (C) Remove beat 4 completely (D) Split beat 4 into two halves; leave the other 4 beats whole. For a separate task: Draw four whole-beat boxes and divide only the third into two equal short-sound spaces. Check your work: There are four total beats, with two half-beat sounds in the third and one whole sound in each other box. 2. Four equal-duration beat cells occupy the entire stated time in each plan: A occupies 20 seconds and B 10 seconds. Each cell is one beat duration, rather than a gap between two onsets. Which plan has faster beat spacing? Choices: (A) A: each beat lasts 5 seconds (B) B: each beat lasts 2.5 seconds (C) The louder pattern must be faster (D) The tempi are equal. For a separate task: Write two four-beat plans lasting eight seconds and four seconds, then calculate seconds per beat. Check your work: The plans give two seconds and one second per beat; the second is faster under this equal-spacing model. 3. A 4-part sound plan must stay equally loud in every part, retaining equal pulse spacing. Which complete loudness map fits? Choices: (A) loud → loud → loud → loud (B) loud → medium-loud → medium-soft → soft (C) soft → medium-soft → medium-loud → loud (D) soft → soft → soft → soft. For a separate task: Create a three-part dynamic map that gets softer while the beat marks retain equal spacing. Check your work: Loudness labels decrease in order, and spacing remains equal throughout. 4. A silent frozen-picture plan should show watching a boat leave. Which choice helps show that idea? Choices: (A) A blank page with no figure or object (B) A figure facing away from every relevant object (C) A written claim that all viewers must feel identical emotions (D) figure faces a boat drawn farther away. For a separate task: Make a paper tableau of someone finding a small object; show the figure’s attention and the object. Check your work: The object is visible, and the figure’s direction or gesture points toward the discovery.

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1. Split beat 4 into two halves; leave the other 4 beats whole. Two halves sum to one whole beat, so dividing only beat 4 changes its sound rhythm without changing the 5-beat pulse. Adding or removing a beat would change the phrase length. For the separate drawing or writing task, check this: There are four total beats, with two half-beat sounds in the third and one whole sound in each other box. 2. B: each beat lasts 2.5 seconds. The four cells fill each whole time span, so one beat cell lasts 20/4=5 seconds in A and 10/4=2.5 seconds in B. B has a shorter interval and therefore a faster tempo. Nothing about loudness was supplied. For the separate drawing or writing task, check this: The plans give two seconds and one second per beat; the second is faster under this equal-spacing model. 3. loud → loud → loud → loud. The map loud → loud → loud → loud follows the required 4 positions and the instruction to stay equally loud in every part. Pulse spacing remains a separate timing condition. Increasing loudness does not imply speeding up, and changing dynamics does not remove any scheduled pulse. For the separate drawing or writing task, check this: Loudness labels decrease in order, and spacing remains equal throughout. 4. figure faces a boat drawn farther away. In this plan, the figure faces a boat drawn farther away. The direction or gesture helps show the story idea. You can draw the scene or use a comfortable seated pose. For the separate drawing or writing task, check this: The object is visible, and the figure’s direction or gesture points toward the discovery.

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