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"The Entertainer" is a great introduction to ragtime music. When you use different recordings/arrangements, you can highlight differences in instrumentation, expression, and tempo! Teach the movement activity described below and then have the students perform the same movement with two or more different recordings. Encourage them to use musical terminology to describe differences they observe.
Engage Students in Following Movement: Video and Written Directions
Engage Students in Following Movement: Video and Written Directions
A section
•Tap knees, criss-cross, knees, criss-cross (4 beats)
•Tap knees, shoulders, knees shoulders (4 beats)
•Tap knees, criss-cross, knees, criss-cross (4 beats)
•Tap knees, shoulders, knees shoulders (4 beats)
•Tap knees, criss-cross, knees, criss-cross (4 beats)
•Tap knees, shoulders, knees shoulders (4 beats)
• ||:Tap knees, criss-cross, knees, shoulders :|| (8 beats)
B section
•Right hand shake x2, left hand shake x2 (4 beats)
•Wiggling fingers rain down (4 beats)
•Right hand shake x2, left hand shake x2 (4 beats)
•Wiggling fingers rain down (4 beats)
•Right hand shake x2, left hand shake x2 (4 beats)
•Wiggling fingers rain down (4 beats)
•Right hand shake x4 (twice as fast), left hand shake x4 (twice as fast) (4 beats)
•Wiggling fingers rain down
Engage Students in Creating Movement
Engage Students in Creating Movement
With a partner, have students create two new 4-beat movement sequences to use in place of the ones the teacher provided for the A Section.
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