Year 1 Week 1

Indeterminacy

Today's Standards:

Today we will perform on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music

MMSMA.2 - Performing on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music

• Chance music
• Different each time
• Roll dice to determine

your part

1=Clap

2=Snap

3=Drums

4=Maraca

5=Piano

6=Whistling

Steady Beat

I see, I hear, I think, I wonder

1900s USA:

John Cage

Chance music

MMSMA.6 - Listening to, analyzing, and describing music

How can we define music based on this video? Based on our own culture? What do you think?

* Steady: Remains the same throughout

MMSMA.6 - Listening to, analyzing, and describing music

Canada

Call and Response

MMSMA.6 - Listening to, analyzing, and describing music

What is Call and Response?

Gospel became one of the most popular genres following WWII.

EQ: How can we identify African musical traditions by analyzing this song?

1:25

Jazz

MMSMA.6 - Listening to, analyzing, and describing music

• originated in African American culture
• rhythmic
• improvisation- making it up as you go!

Morocco

MMSMA.6 - Listening to, analyzing, and describing music

Libya

Algeria

Egypt

Today we will use curiosity and skepticism to discover why our instruments make certain sounds,

sing,

identify African and African American musical traditions,

and be able to sing/perform in those styles

Mexico

Standards

Mauritiana

Mali

Today we will sing,

identify African instruments,

compare/contrast African music and music we know,

and compose!

Niger

Chad

Sudan

Standards

Today we will read music,

compose,

sing in rounds,

and understand music in Africa's culture by comparing two African folk songs.

Exit Ticket

Double Bass

Using 2 lines on your notebook paper, draw with quarter notes:

1. La 2. Sol

3. Mi 4. Re

How can we scat to sound

like this instrument?

How is Wanting Memories similar to traditional African music?

Wanting Memories

Exit Ticket

1. Draw an eighth note

2. Draw a quarter note

3. Draw a half note

Apply Dynamics

Written by Ysaye Barnwell, an African American composer

Journal:

How does this song make you feel? What is it about? What does it remind you off? What makes you say that?

EQ:

How can we use dynamics to improve how we sing the song?

I am sitting here wanting memories to teach me

To see the beauty in the world through my own eyes

You used to rock me in the cradle of your arms

You said you'd hold me 'til the pains of life were gone

You said you'd comfort me in times like these

and now I need you

and now I need you, and you are gone

Tink of Me

A song from Ghana with singing and body percussion

EQ:

Tink of Me

How can we revise the song to make it more interesting?

Apply dynamics:

x4

Tink of me, forget me not, remember me

wherever you go

I am yours, you are mine, remember me

wherever you go

x4

MMSMA.3 - Reading and notating music

In groups, compose a 2 measure accompaniment on instruments. Use:

2 half notes,

3 quarter notes, 1 quarter rest

oh - bwi - sa - na sa

MMSMA.3 - Reading and notating music

Let's sing and play!

MMSMA.5 - Composing and arranging music within specified guidelines

MMSMA.3 - Reading and notating music

La, Sol, Mi, Re

Nigeria

MMSMA.9 - Understanding music in relation to history and culture

Do, Ledger Lines

Ethiopa

Compose 8 beat ostinato in groups

Banuwa

Add body percussion ostinato!

How can listing our musical vocab words help us compose?

EQ:

Start by listing all of our vocab words.

What words have we learned dealing with volume? Rhythm? Speed? African musical traditions?

Use:

Use at least 2 of vocab words

Share ostinato with the class!

Compare

Rhythm? Pitch? African traditions?

Obwisana Banuwa

Claim,

Support,

Question

Rounds

How can we synthesize a composition so that each instrument is heard by itself in performance?

Where the same song is sung at once, but starting at different times

Most popular "Row, Row, Row Your Boat"

Compose 5 measures in groups. Use notes and rests to make sure drums, maracas, and tambourines are not played at the same times.

Add dynamics and articulations so that the piece is more interesting!

Legato!

Liberia

Ghana

MMSMA.5 - Composing and arranging music within specified guidelines

"Land of the Free"

Declared independence in 1847

Ostinato

One of first nations to gain

independence from British in 1957

Music centered around drums

Exit ticket:

In groups, compose ostinato accompaniment on instruments

How many beats does a quarter note get?

MMSMA.2 - Performing on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music

MMSMA.5 - Composing and arranging music within specified guidelines

Kenya

Jambo (Swahili)

• Repeated musical pattern
• Often in drums in African music
• Repeats every four beats

Standards

MMSMA.1 - Singing, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music

Today we will:

read music,

compose,

apply dynamics,

and sing with "style"

Congo

Quarter Notes

MMSMA.3 - Reading and notating music

Quarter Rests

EQ: How can we use the elements we talked about today to define "music"?

MMSMA.3 - Reading and notating music

MMSMA.5 - Composing and arranging music within specified guidelines

1 beat of silence

1 beat

EQ:

How can repeating greetings in another language help us sing?

EQ:

How can analyzing the words of a song help us apply dynamics to what we are singing?

Mbube, Mbube

Brazil

Lion chases an

impala

http://cbs.umn.edu/research/labs/lionresearch

Dynamics

Quiet = "piano"

Loud = "forte"

http://www.awf.org/

Tanzania

Exit Ticket

1. Draw eighth notes

2. Draw a quarter note

3. What do you call a drum in Africa?

Sound Effects

Zimbabwe

Madagascar

Create sound effects as I read.

Try to imitate the sounds of the instruments!

Juba

Toyi-Toyi

MMSMA.8 - Understanding relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts

• A dance with a lively rhythm
• Performers keep the rhythm by clapping

In groups of 5, compose an ostinato juba for Jambo.

Use 4 beats and use only:

EQ:

How can we understand music's role in other cultures by comparing This Little Light of Mine to Singahambayo?

• Dance movements to Singahambayo

• Toyi-Toyi: movement in protests, later made into traditional dance

We are marching home for freedom,

Jambo - dynamics!

Botswana

Singabahambayo thina, kulomhlaba,

Kepha sinekhaya eZulwini.

Our hearts are filled with song, so sing out strong.

Compose on Jembe!

MMSMA.3 - Reading and notating music

Ta Ta Ta Ta

Ta di Ta di Ta di Ta di

MMSMA.3 - Reading and notating music

Singabahambayo - dynamics!

MMSMA.3 - Reading and notating music

We are marching home for freedom,

Freedom Day

MMSMA.9 - Understanding music in relation to history and culture

Johannesburg- capital city

Dave Matthews Band

I see, I think, I wonder

Dave Matthews and Orchestra Baobab

• Orchestra Baobab from West Africa
• Compare/contrast: style, instruments, vocals

MMSMA.6 - Listening to, analyzing, and describing music

MMSMA.9 - Understanding music in relation to history and culture

• Variety of instruments:
• drum set
• chimes
• guitar, violin
• saxophone
• trumpet
• Influenced by:
• jazz
• reggae
• folk music

"Genres"

MMSMA.6 - Listening to, analyzing, and describing music

Singabahambayo thina, kulomhlaba,

Kepha sinekhaya eZulwini.

Similar African Traditional Instruments

http://buzzsouthafrica.com/ accessed 8/3/16

MMSMA.9 - Understanding music in relation to history and culture

1. Jembe 3. Kora

2. Kalimba

• April 27, 1994- Nelson Mandela elected President
• Racial equality achieved after years of injustice
• One of 12 public holidays
• Music, dance, food,

traditional dress,

crafts, all used to

celebrate

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MMSMA.9 - Understanding music in relation to history and culture

Our hearts are filled with song, so sing out strong.

Photo taken by Paul Weinberg

http://www.primanews.org/

Singabahambayo pronunciation

Population

MMSMA.9 - Understanding music in relation to history and culture

I see, I think, I wonder

seen gah bah hahm bah yo

tee nah koo lohm lah bah

keh fah see neh kah ya

eh zool wee nee

• 77% native African
• 9% mixed (descendants of natives and early white settlers)
• 3% Indian
• 11% white (descendants of Europeans)
• 11 official languages, including English, Afrikaans, Zulu

MMSMA.1 - Singing, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music

http://african.culturextourism.com/ accessed 8/3/16

South Africa

Today we will discuss music's role in the South African culture,

sing,

compose,

dance,

analyze songs,

and create sound effects.

Argentina

Journey to Africa