Fill in the Blanks Musical language in English 1st ESOOnline version Lenguaje musical para alumnos bilingües de 1º de la ESO Musical language for 1st ESO bilingual pupils. by Juanfer Gago 1 low high The pitch refers to and . 2 five syllables staff letters four We name the pitches with and and we write them on the that has lines and spaces . 3 clef ledger notes At the beginning we write the . If it is necessary we use lines for the that don´t fit in . 4 la semitone two mi do si fa si The smallest difference between two pitches is the . A tone is the same as semitones . There is a semitone between and . There is always a tone between do - re , fa - sol , sol - la and - . 5 flat cancels semitone higher Enharmonic pitch The accidentals change a note by a . The sharp makes a note a semitone , the makes a note a semitone lower and the natural the effect of the accidentals during a bar . notes are two notes with the same but two different names . 6 two notes third difference fifth number ascending An interval is the in pitch between notes . It can be or descending . Their size is an ordinal that we get counting the two plus all the notes included between them : second , , fourth , , etc .