CHAPTER THREE:  MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS _ ARTS AND SPORTS STD III NOTES

CHAPTER THREE:  MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS _ ARTS AND SPORTS STD III NOTES

Meaning of musical instruments

Musical instruments are tools used to produce musical sounds.

Each type of musical instruments has its unique sound that makes the music interesting.

It also has a taste and arouses various feelings.

These instruments can add goodness to music by giving out rhyming sounds to accompany the voices of singers or sounds of other musical instruments.

Types of musical instruments

1. Wind instruments
2. Struck instruments
3. Stringed instruments
4. Percussion instruments.

Wind instruments

These are types of musical instruments in which a musician blows air to produce sounds. Examples of these instruments are:

1. Trumpets
2. Baragumu
3. Flutes
4. Lipenenga
5. Lilandi.

These instruments can give out high and low sounds using different blowing methods

Struck instruments

These are instruments that a musician beats or strikes to give out sounds.

The musician may use hands or special equipment to strike these instruments.

Examples of strunk instruments

1. Xylophones,
2. Drums
3. Claves
4. Triangles
5. Cymbals

Exercise

1. Draw any two musical instruments: a wind instrument and a struck instrument.
2. Differentiate between wind and struck musical instruments

Stringed instruments

These are instruments whose sounds are produced by pulling or rubbing strings.

A musician can use fingers, plectra or bows to play these instruments.

Examples of stringed instruments

1. The guitar
2. Violin
3. Harp
4. Zeze,
5. Enanga
6. Ndono
7. Litungu.

Percussion instruments

These instruments are shaken to produce sounds.

These sounds come from the collision of different objects that were used to make the instruments.

Examples of percussion instruments

1. Maracas
2. Manyanga
3. Kayamba
4. Njuga

These instruments are placed with grain seeds such as corn or beans, or small pebbles in them.

When these instruments are shaken, the seeds or pebbles inside them collide and produce sounds.

Some percussion instruments can be produced using simple materials in our surroundings.

For example, you can produce manyanga from a tree twig, string or wire and soda caps.

Percussion instrument

Exercise

1. Draw any two musical instruments: a stringed instrument and a percussion instrument.
2. Differentiate between stringed and percussion instruments.

Importance of musical instruments

1. Make songs more interesting and more lively.
2. They guide singers to follow the rhythm correctly
3. They guide singers to sing in harmony.

Exercise

1. The Unity choir sings its songs using various musical instruments. Explain why this choir uses these instruments?

2. What should a musician do to make the flute produce sounds?

3. Differentiate between a trumpet and a zeze.

4. Give the difference between struck and stringed musical instruments.

5. Explain how sounds are produced from manyanga, kayamba and njuga.

Vocabulary

Harp A multi-stringed instrument that is played with fingers while sitting or standing

Musical Instrument A tool used in music

Violin A musical instrument like a guitar that is played like a zeze

Xylophone A traditional musical instrument that consists of wooden bars that are struck by mallets to produce sounds

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