Week 14 - Music

Listening appreciation

5 musical concepts

·      duration

·      pitch – high/middle/low sound, ascending/descending, leaping/stepping

·      structure

·      dynamics – volumes of sound, loud/soft/getting louder/softer

·      tone colour - the sound source (what instruments are being played and how are they being played?)

Carnival of the Animals – The Swan by Camille Saint-Saens

Tone Colour – the sound source (what instruments are being played and how are they being played?) cello & piano

What do you think the two instruments represent? Cello (the swan) piano (the water)

Describe how they are played – softly but with a dignified strength (cello), the bowing movements are long to suggest graceful movements

Dynamics

How would you describe the dynamics of the piece? The piano is the accompaniment to the cello, which is leading the piece. Generally speaking it was relatively soft, but there were gradations of softness

F = forte (loud)

P = piano (soft)

PP = pianissimo (very soft)

MP = messo piano (medium soft)

Duration

Describe the tempo, rhythms – slow, meandering

adagio (slow)

don’t confuse beat with rhythm – beat is slow but there might be faster bits of rhythm inbetween

rhythm sits on top of the beat, rhythm wont be slower than the beat

In the hall of the mountain king – Edvard Grieg

How would you describe the change of each of the five musical concepts throughout the piece?

·      Duration – 2 minutes, tempo sped up (accelerando)

·      pitch

·      structure – 8 bars long repeated, gradually gets faster

·      dynamics – starts off softly ends up loud and more aggressive, started off more punchy (staccato) ended up longer notes (

·      tone colour – started with a horn instrument, progressed to other instruments leading wind instrument, ends with lots of instruments playing together (the texture built up)

The Ice Dance – Edward Scissorhands by Danny Elfman

Tone colour

What is the first instrument heard in this piece? Violin, harp, flute

What family of instruments enters next? Wood (anything with a reed), percussion, strings

Why do you think the composer used a “music box” as part of the instrumentation? Because it’s emotive, nostalgic makes us think of childhood and memory

What voice range can be heard in the choir? Soprano (high), tenor (mid), bass (low)

Dynamics/expressive qualities

What words would you use to describe this piece? Emotive, nostalgic, enchanting, sentimental, hopeful, victorious

What images do you think of when hearing this piece? 2 people dancing, fairytale, transformation

Describe the dynamic changes in this piece

Diminuendo (diminishing), crescendo (builds up), both

Harry Potter – Hedwig’s theme by John Williams

What is the name of the instrument that plays the main theme the first time?

Celesta (mini piano), flute, violin

What family of instruments takes the theme the second time? String, brass, woodwind

How do the strings make the “sound” of the wind?

Show youtube videos of certain instruments being played to show the children what they sound like. Multiple choice questions are good so kids can eliminate options if they aren’t sure.

Batman piece – ask about dynamics, cresciendo

Mission impossible – how would you move to this piece of music? Ask about duration, what is the rhythm (ostenato = repeated pattern)

How can we relate music to other KLAs? - Maths, science, hsie, religion, art, English

HSIE – stage 2 beliefs – how people’s beliefs and religion relate to music, indigenous music and culture, sustainability - building instruments out of recycled materials, civil rights movement in America which musical genres came out of that struggle - write a rap about it, how music can create a character – politician paint a softer picture with music in ads

Music and English – meaning of lyrics, rhyming words, use the stimulus of a book to create music, theme generates music,

Music and maths – measurements etc.., patterns, thickness of strings, how many bars etc, how many sections etc,

Music and art – painting what you are listening to, words of a song translated to music and art “a girl is falling through the air” represent it, use excerpt of a movie – remove the audio – have kids create the music, look at certain artworks or art movements and think about what music works

Music and P.E – invent musical games – 5 hoops cops & robbers move on the beat

Music and science – instruments to teach the science of sound, transformation of energy – kinetic to sound – how does sound get amplified, natural habitats introduction to, replicate how animals make sounds etc

Connecting literacy and music using a visual stimulus.

Two early learning principles

·      the early leaner is holistic and sensory

new English syllabus – capabilities

Billy Goats Gruff – Susan Hellard

Look for events in the story and characters in the story

Goats eating grass – scrunching paper, Goats crossing – ‘trip, trap’ wooden percussion, troll getting tossed into the river, cold

3 goats – change pitch, lower sound for biggest goat, higher sound for smallest goat

troll different at the beginning and at the end. Drum – low and loud at the beginning

audacity – recording and editing program – free download!!

Finger stomp is another good program

Garage band

Percussive latin

My story

Wrightstuff music, midnight kids