Learning Objectives: Learn about the composer Bach and explore musical phrases.

Steps:

1. Who was Bach? Watch Video 1 (in French) to learn more about him.

2. Watch Video 2 of Monsieur Stone playing a very famous movement from a suite written by Bach on the marimba. Listen to the phrases in the song.

• Remember a musical phrase is a musical sentence. There is always a beginning, middle, and an end. Think of the shape of a rainbow.

• The suite played in this video was originally written for cello. Watch Video 3 to listen to a performance by Yo-Yo Ma.

• Another version of the song, played by multiple cellos, is shown in Video 4.

3. After listening to all three versions, ask yourself, how do they differ? Do you hear the musical phrases in each of the versions on the videos?

Learning Objectives: Learn about the parts of a drum set, learn how to play a basic rock beat.

Steps:

1. Watch the video of Monsieur Stone and tap along with your hands and feet, unless you have a drumset at home, then use that!

2. Try making your own drum grooves with the online drum machine!

3. Find a pop or rock song you like on the radio, a CD, YouTube, Spotify, or elsewhere. Can you tap a rock beat to it? If this is difficult, just use one or two of your four limbs like Monsieur Stone did in the video clip. Put them together in different combinations.

Learning Objectives: Playing recorder (BAG), exploring sixteenth note drumming patterns.

Steps:

1. Listen to a popular French Canadian song called, “Au chant l’alouette” performed by Madame Pickering, Monsieur Stone and Monsieur Bérubé (see Video 1).

   • If you have a recorder at home and know the notes B, A and G, try playing along with Madame Pickering. The pattern is as follows: BBBB B A G A B A repeated twice.

2. At the end of the video, Monsieur Stone played some of the rhythms from the song on his cajon.

   • If you have a bucket, a box, a drum, or a large bowl you can play along with the video. You can even try playing on the floor!

3. Video 2 shows some other beats that you can try to play at home. Challenge yourself! Some of them are quite hard!

Learning Objectives: Students will explore time signature changes within a song (3/4, 4/4), tempo changes, AB form, and recorder playing using G, A ,B, D’, D.

Steps:

1. Today we are going to learn a song about a miller.

2. Watch the video of Monsieur Stone and Madame Pickering.

   1. • Did you hear that the song had two different sections? Not only did the tempo change, but the time signature too.

      • If you want you can try the song on recorder.

3. What is a time signature in music? Video 2 explains it in French with some of the conducting patterns we did in the video.

4. Now, using Video 3, try to clap or play along with rhythms in 4/4 and 3/4 time.

Learning Objectives: Sing in two-part canon, explore AB form and melodic direction.

Steps:

1. Today we are going to learn a fun song about cutting straw and wheat. A long time ago farmers would use a special tool called a scythe to cut straw and wheat.

2. Watch the video featuring Monsieur Stone and Madame Pickering.

   1. • If you have members of your family that are willing to sing this with you, you can learn to sing in a canon as a family too!

3. Did you hear that sometimes the melody jumps around and sometimes it goes up by steps? This is called “melodic” direction.

   1. • This step of this lesson has been removed to honour copyright and timeframe restrictions set for use and sharing of previous materials.

Learning Objectives: Experience major/minor. Major, Minor. Lyrics of both songs from A and B are the same.

Steps:

1. Do you remember what the voyagers were?

2. Do you remember how music was very important during their travels? They could travel up to 18 hours a day! To help keep them entertained and going they used to sing in their canoes.

3. Today we are going to learn another song that was popular during these times. Please watch Video 1 and follow along with Monsieur Stone and Madame Pickering.

5. This step of this lesson has been removed to honour copyright and timeframe restrictions set for use and sharing of previous materials.

6. To end our lessons on the voyagers, the most common and well known song is “C’est l’aviron" and can be listened to by watching Video 2.

Learning Objectives: Sing and conduct a French folk song in 6/8 time. Play a basic ostinato on wooden spoons and/or other at home instruments. Explore tempos in 6/8 time.

Steps:

1. Watch the video of Monsieur Stone and Madame Pickering singing a song that was popular during the time of the voyageurs called, “En roulant ma boule."

2. Who were the voyageurs?

3. Here is a definition according to Wikipedia:

“The Voyageurs were people who engaged in the transportation of furs by canoe during the fur trade era. Voyageur is a French word, which literally means "traveler". Transportation was for longer distances, and this major and challenging task of the fur trading business was done by canoe and largely by French Canadians.

Music was a part of everyday life for the Voyageur. Voyageurs sang songs while paddling and working, as well as during other activities and festivities.”

4. This portion of this lesson has been removed to honour copyright and timeframe restrictions set for use and sharing of previous materials.

Learning Objectives: Sing a song, identify tikka tikka and ti-tikka rhythms, and create your own rhythm patterns through improvisation.

Steps:

• Today we are going to learn a traditional French Canadian folk song called “J’entends le moulin."

• Watch the video of Madame Pickering and Monsieur Stone singing and playing the song. Follow along with them in the video.

• There are many different versions of this song.

• This portion of this lesson has been removed to honour copyright and timeframe restrictions set for use and sharing of previous materials.