When We Listen to Music, We Can Listen For:

-  Dynamics:  Is the music loud or soft?  

- Mood *:  how does the music make you feel?  exciting, sad, happy, mad, cranky, glum, fearful, scary, joyful, weird, embarrassed , sleepy, hyper, timid, lazy, relaxed, jumpy, chill, mellow

- Characters:  What instruments represent certain characters?  

- Instruments:  what types of instruments represent certain -- feelings, emotion, mood, person, personality, animals, plants, water, nature, places, situations, listen for when a new instrument begins to play, when there are a lot of instruments playing and when there are few instruments playing, do the instruments play in patterns, what roles do instruments play, do the instruments talk to each other

-  Pictures:  music can represent the mood or tune found in a photo, music can tell the story behind a picture, music can portray the scene in a different sense 

- Pitches:  why certain instruments sound the way they do, listen for changes in pitch from high to low

- Tone *:  scared, tense, nervous, relaxed, soothing

- Story:  the sounds can portray a scene, what the feeling is during a moment, it can portray the sound of a specific character in story, what images do we get in our mind? 

- Tempo: speed, slow, fast, moderate, jumpy ... 

- Setting:  jungle, anywhere on earth, kitchen, parlor, bedroom, on a balcony, hospital, arena, bathroom, garden, deer stand, cornfield



 
 
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First 20 Minutes

Work independently to fill out past, present, and future information.

Miss Bieber will walk around to answer questions and offer suggestions.

Next 15 Minutes

Gather together in circle on the floor.  Share some of what you wrote.

Students who are listening -- listen to what you hear.  You may hear something that is also in their own list or somethi


 
Interview at least one adult in your own family.  Ask them what their musical experiences have been in the past.  Ask them the following question:
     What kind of music did you experience when you were young?

Also ask them if they remember what musical experiences YOU had when you were young -- maybe they remember something that you do not! 

Ideas:
 -    Lullabies or children's songs?  Family songs?  Karaoke?  Radio playing while chores were being done?  (Happy Birthday counts.)
 -   What did you listen to that I would have heard when I was little?
 -   Do you have anything else you want to tell me about music in my life?



 
In this first video, a percussion ensemble creates many different percussive sounds.  With what do they make these sounds?  How do these sounds create music?

http://www.youtube.com/watch/?v=sb-2VsE2y-U

In this next video, the Swingle Singers take the percussion genre to an entirely different level.  No actual instruments were used in the making of this video -- you will only hear the human voice.  Who is creating the percussive sounds?  What is similar to this video and the percussion ensemble?  How do the characters interact?  If you could write a book about this piece, what would the story line be?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uiG5jJavTU

Everything comes together in this last video -- percussion, storyline, dancing, and music.  Do you recognize the melody from this video and the Swingle Singers?  Who is creating the percussive sounds now?  Can you be the percussion?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdhTodxH7Gw
 

    1.  In the space below, write out your ideas for you musical introduction.  What aspects of your personality did you convey?  What kinds of sounds (instrumental and vocal) did you make to show this?



    2.  In the space below, reflect on what you noticed about how your classmates introduced themselves musically.  What did you notice about high and low, fast and slow, and loud and soft?  What about their instrumental or vocal choices?  How did their choice in instruments convey their personality?  Be as specific as possible.



    ** Number your answers 1. and 2. to correspond with the correct question

 

    In the form below, enter your name and email.  Finally, enter the following in the comment box:

    1. Partner's Name
    2. Rhythmic Phrase

 
 
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Well...Now they are a YouTube sensation.

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