| Students learn creepy
bug songs and poems in the spirit of Halloween. Materials used
include songs and poems I learned from Beth Melin Nelson at the
First Iowa Orff Chapter Workshop on October 8th, 2005. Other materials
used include poems from the books "Bugs" (Poems
by Mary Ann Hoberman and illustrated by Victoria Chess) and "Insectlopedia"
(Poems and paintings by Douglas Florian).
Songs and Poems learned:
"Good Night Sleep Tight":
This song is in rondo form. The A section is a traditional nursery
rhyme. The contrasting sections are "bug rhythms" (student
derived rhythms from the rhythms of speech of types of bugs) played
on non pitched percussion.
"Mosquitoes": This song is
in the aeolian mode (minor mode). A minor melody is set to the
poem and is sung with a 3 part Orff orchestration using soprano,
alto, and bass xylophones and metalaphones. Non pitched percussion
is added on the rhyming words.
"Ants": Is a poem using non
pitched percussion in 6/8 meter, and is stylistically similar
to a march. Students march to the beat while playing rhtyhms with
the text of the poem on non pitched percussion.
National Standards:
1. Singing, alone and with
other, a varied repertoire of music.
2. Performing on instruments,
alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.
4. Composing and arranging
music within specified guidelines.
5. Reading and notating music.
6. Listening to, analyzing,
and describing music.
7. Evaluating music and music
performances.
8. Understanding relationships
between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.
ICCSD Standards: same as national standards in
addtion to:
1. Moving to music.
ICCSD Benchmarks:
Melody:
* melodic direction
* higher vs. lower
* perform steps skips and leaps
* major and minor tonalities
* singing from A (above middle C) to C (an octave above middle
C)
Rhythm:
* steady beat
* meter in 2/4, 4/4, 6/8
* combinations of note values of quarter and paired eights (quarter/eighth
shuffle rhythm in 6/8).
* differentiate between rhythm and beat.
* experience aurally, kinesthetically, and iconically rhythms.
Form: rondo, AB.
Harmony:
* Experience music with an accompanying repeated pattern.
* major and minor tonalities.
Expressive Qualities:
* crescendo and decrescendo.
* dynamics: loud and soft.
* vocal timbres: speaking, singing, whispering.
Objectives:
* Students will learn above concepts and skills listed under ICCSD
Benchmarks.
* Students will compose rhythms derived from speech rhythms of
bugs and arrange four bugs in their own order.
* Students will perform on instruments demonstrating proper techniques.
* Students will demonstrate steady beat, rhythms, and tempo.
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