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For the descriptions that do not have a corresponding musical example, record your own sound to match the word. You must try to match the sound with one of the descriptions not already illustrated musically above e.g. watery, mellow, warm and shrill.
Use a cassette recorder with inbuilt microphone or better still, a minidisk recorder and microphone. Then the rest of the class guesses the description.
Suggestions: water flowing from a tap, someone walking on gravel, whistling, dropping coins onto a metal surface, scraping fingernails on the blackboard, playing a note on an instrument, hissing, rubbing fingers on a balloon, singing..
Save these for lesson 7.

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Ringing Bright Magical Tinny Watery Crystalline Like rain Resonant Chiming Brilliant Tinkly Sweet Shimmering Clear Bird-like Like a stream Pure		Muted Nasal Plaintive Frothy Blurred Liquid Dry Dull Reedy Hissy Sleazy Mournful Mellow Whiney Hollow Doleful Whispering Breathy Like someone snoring Fuzzy Hazy

	Brassy Dark Gruff Like a hunting-horn Warm Sonorous Full Beefy Muddy Sombre Dense Fatter Thick Fruity Rich		Abrasive Buzzy Raspy Harsh Hard Shrill Hoarse Piercing Metallic Rattly Crunchy Jingly Penetrating Raucous Hard-edged Strident Scraping Forced Screechy Scratchy


				Lesson 2 Short musical examples