Week 2

This week the students need to learn 2 songs in a different meter/count of beats.

The students need to pat the beat while singing the songs.

The first song is a March in a 4 beat count.

Here is a sound clip of the MARCH, and here are the lyrics

March song

March, march, march, when we

March, march, march we

Count to 4 with our

Marching song.

The second song is a Waltz in a 3 beat count.

Here is a sound clip of the WALTZ, and here are the lyrics

Waltz

When we waltz we count to 3

When we’re waltzing, when we’re waltzing,

When we waltz we count to 3

Count to 3 and waltz with me

Once they’ve learned them you can march in a line or dance a waltz while singing :)

week 4 (30.03-03.04)

We will continue with the active listening - Listening to music with understanding.

Review the March song with patting the beat, and remember that for a march the number of beats in each bar is 4. Again sometimes we need to count slower, sometimes faster, but always to 4.

Listen to these marches and try to pat or count the beat with 1-2-3-4.Listen to at least one minute of each song. Edward Elgar - Pomp and circumstance march No.1

Camille Saint-Saens - March of the lions - starts from 00:28

Julius Fucik- Entry of the gladiators

Franz Schubert - Military March

Peter I. Tchaikovsky - March of the toy soldiers

Johann Strauss - Radetsky March

Giuseppe Verdi - Aida - Grand March

When you are done listening and counting beats, choose one march that you are going to listen to a couple of times and draw something the music inspires you to. Then send me the drawings with the name of the march you have chosen.

When all these songs have been heard, parents can play them in a mixed order to see if students can guess if a song is a march or a waltz. Thank you for your cooperation. Upload in this folder.

06.04-10.04

This week students will follow a listening map. We have learned what listening maps are, they help us actively follow music. On the listening map each part of the picture has a different meaning connected to the music and we need to point exactly where we are while listening. The song that we will follow a listening map for is Aquarium - from "The Carnival of the Animals" by Camille Saint-Saens. Here is the listening map.

The big fish represent a longer sound, the little fish - shorter sounds. If a fish is a bit higher - the sound goes higher, if a fish is lower, the sound is lower. The bubbles in the third and last line represent the soft melody going down. The repeat sign tells us we need to do the first box twice. In the second box, the second line needs to be repeated.

Question, what kind of notes do you think the small fish stand for, and what kind of notes do the big dish stand for?

20.04-24.04

Let's do some singing this week. Here is a sound recording for some warm up melodies. Listen and sing back each melody (I left enough time for you to copy me with singing)

Now, review the names of the notes with this song.

Listen and repeat after the melodies from this sound recording with the names of the notes. Try to memorize the melodies with the proper names of the notes. Repeat it at least 5 times. And try to sing them with the (same) piano melody recording.

Enjoy singing :)

You can upload a video, or just a voice recording in this folder.

04.05-08.05

Last week students were supposed to try to read the rhythm of a given melody. The different types of notes last a different number of beats. Students should know how long a half note and a quarter note last. Putting a dot next to the half note makes it longer, a dotted half note is 3 beats. Here is a chart as a reminder of the duration. Try to sing each type of note with ta, don’t forget to count the beat!

Now, let’s try to read the rhythm with ta-ta of that melody. If you can not do it alone here is a voice recording of the rhythm of the first line, and of the second line.

Read the rhythm of the whole melody like this a couple of times to practice.

Look at the number at the beginning of the song, it says ¾. Do you think that this song will sound more like a waltz or a march? Which type of song did we count to 3?

The melody that you were reading is from this song. Try to find the beat, count to 3 a couple of times in the song and learn to sing it. The lyrics are on the screen, but if someone wants to read the notes as well - here is the score. Here is a folder where you can upload the student's work

11.05-15.05 Steps and Jumps

A melody is a line or sequence of different pitchers. A group of pitches following each other make a melody. The melody can stay in place, or move up or down. If the same note is repeated ten the melody stays in place. If the notes/pitches go higher the melody is going up. If the notes/pitches go lower - the melody is going down. Choose which line of notes is going up, which line is going down. Click to listen to the melodies.

1. Do - re - mi - fa - so
2. Fa - so - la
3. Fa - mi - re - do
4. So - mi - do
5. Re - fa - la

The melody can go note by note, or it can skip one note or sometimes even a lot of notes. If the melody is going to the closest note we call it a step, if it skips one or more notes we call it a jump. Which line of ones is with steps, which line is with jumps?

Here are a few notes from the song “Take me out to the ball game”. You already know the names of the notes (you found them last time), now count to see if between the notes there is a step or a jump. Label the steps with S and the jumps with J for the 10 marked places.

Carnival of the animals

As a last assignment this year again we are going to listen to some music again. In first grade we listened to most of the parts from Carnival of the animals by Camille Saint Saens. Let’s see if those of you that were here last year remember the melodies. Don’t worry if you don’t remember them. The composer tried to imitate the sounds of animals using classical musical instruments. There are 13 short parts of that group of songs. Listen to each part and try to guess which animal from the carnival it is. If you guess correctly - GREAT, if not - it doesn’t matter, you still got a chance to listen to some lovely music :).

Here are the parts and the music part by part.

1 - Introduction and Royal March of the Lions

2 - Hens and Roosters (Chicken)

3 - Wild Donkeys swift animals (Wild donkeys running)

4 - Tortoises

5 - The Elephant

6 - Kangaroos

7 - Aquarium (we followed a listening map for this a couple of weeks ago)

8 - Character with Long Ears (Donkey)

9 - The Cuckoo in the Depth of the Woods (The cuckoo)

10 - Aviary (Birds)

11 - Pianists (As if pianists are animals :) )

12 - Fossils

13 - The Swan

14 - The Finale (every animal has a short appearance, a short part of the melody from each animal)

Choose the music for the animal you liked the most from the group of songs and draw it. You can upload the drawings and turn in in google classroom

BONUS ASSIGNMENT

As a bonus assignment for eager students, one extra task. Make your own song about how you felt staying home - the good and not that good parts :) Doesn’t matter how long or short it is. If you make a song I would love to hear it. Please send it to me on email or upload it HERE.