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Music Activities for 3rd – 6th Grades
Mr. Gartner
The week of 4/14 – 4/17
(Office Hours 9 am to 12 noon daily via Dojo)
Below are several activities that you may consider throughout a 5-day week. I hope that you would explore all the activities represented below, although that will be your choice.
World Music Tapestry – The Third Thread – Barred Percussion Instruments (idiophones).
Percussion - A type of musical instrument where sound is made by striking a tone-producing surface. This week we will focus one part of the percussion family – idiophones – musical instruments that are struck without using membranes or strings (e.g. xylophones, gongs, etc.) Drums and similar instruments made are part of a different world instrument group called membranophones.
Explore percussion instruments (idiophones) in any of the following continents: Africa, Asia, Australia / Oceania, Europe, North and South America. You may include string instruments that you have at home – including folk instruments.
Share a Song- 3rd and 4th Grades
Mystery Tune – the melody of this song contains syncopated rhythms or ‘syn-co-pa’ A helpful hint: Think Caribbean!!!
Cut the Cake--- Perform the game song with video or use only your singing voice to play.
All Around the Brickyard – “step it, shrug it, snap it, reach it, swish it, jump it”-you know it! Use your best singing voice and keep the steady beat while using the movement that we learned in class – everything is on the video. Consider improvising your own movement to the steady beat, using the video as accompaniment.
Share a Song- 5th and 6th Grades
Mystery Tune – Can you remember the name of the Turkish song we learned in class? Click the link below to find out.
One, Two, Three O’ leary (Irish game song)
Sarasponda (Netherlands)
Positive Popular Music
The first song really needs no introduction --- you already know it well! It was released in 2013 and its genre is soul or neo soul.
Composed in 1967 by the prolific songwriter Jimmy Webb, “Up, Up and Away” was first performed by The 5th Dimension and has been performed by many artists since that time.
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