This website will give you experiences with some amazing music. It will expose you to music you might never get the chance to hear. This website is a work in progress. Check back for updates. Enjoy.
Mrs. Bee
lbee@ofsd.k12.wi.us
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Dear Parents and Families,
My website is a work in progress. Thus far, there are activities and music recordings for recorder and drumming. As you scroll past those you will find a TON of listening activities that are super fun and great for the ears! You are welcome to any of the activities. It is best if a sibling or parent can play with the child on the listening and movement activities. I sure hope you find this a ton of fun. I know I love doing them in the classroom. Please check back, I will be adding more great music activities as I get them created. The links should all work. I had my mom check them from her computer and she was able to open all of them. If you cannot make a link work, I apologize. This is a work in progress and I will continue to add and update as I have time. Please let me know if links do not work.
I hope you enjoy this.
Lisa Bee
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Fourth and Fifth Grade Recorder Information
There are links to music and recordings here for the students to play along with.
Introducing BAG https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/12ZmU0kKHtL0ZCXBxM4nJvdZed2VfkcsQ
Easy 8 https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1KJdAzdWItx_kwOpwEB-PkbGJMIx8Qql_
The Big Easy https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/10I8K5elCedWessiKeKxiHQz3bRnWAvfz
More Easy 8 https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1b8SX3FgF6L_if7KAibzSyFRLAtooPo3f
7 Switched on Songs
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1sP3NPmGgZdMzjjgetuL-TL59lXxVU7R
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1BZ_Nh0FQB-wbMO0xcTEZkFst-YvGZfN4
Grade 4 Hot Tunes Recorder Packet (worksheets we work on in class)
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1fMH-hAUuo0lhAAlD2kyCb_bVryZiOtYK
Grade 5 Hot Tunes Recorder Packet (worksheets we work on in class)
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1_pt-2S0gd-LLbftVyyobihO_8FDpFC3Y
Recorder Express Scroll to the very bottom to find the printed music. Play songs in numerical order. This includes printed music and it has recordings of the songs.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1aI7l8eb4G_BknyD5x_GEXLZM0xgqRdCk
Recorder Karate Students practice songs at home and then come in and test with me to earn their belts. When they have passed all belts in Recorder Karate 1, level 2, 3, and 4 will be shared with the student.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1lOxUubtk2dPfLCgsG1iUvTYwlUJgauKP?usp=sharing
Music Theory Worksheets Nothing to play here. These are purely informational.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1YC4qtIdFa9fdgf7qaB-h7KfZsSn2SdK3
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Grade 5 Drumming Activities
Can Ya Conga? by Chris Judah Lauder
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1rr3MKop5GAUZAzTtzoYagQ1UdoNeSej-
To Drum by Chris Judah Lauder
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1oJHC1m0b-Btb0sO0ILddnOcrtGCZHo5-
Shirley McRae Drumming Activities
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/13kOxJaXb2mwd2QWbjGo9UBGo2kmt_M6B
World Music Drumming with Will Schmid
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1vmEkdij2HVrTEjZjJH2oair3AFFQaS5w
Jim Solomon Drumming Activities
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1nhCQlaO2UNymd3Nre0edgleNa-IOkQx1
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This is a new site that was brought to my attention. It has some good musical information. I was recently made aware of it but have not had time to look at it completely. Do not click on the shop or learn section as that is mostly ads.
https://seatup.com/blog/music-notes-a-guide-to-music-for-kids/
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My Read Aloud Books (I made these during 2020 Covid Pandemic)
There a lots of fun stories here. Click the link to see several choices.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1i42AVGTKmTkxW6pvbQ0zB82jyA5Bbq-r
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The activities below are for all ages. 0-120
Listening and Movement Activities
1. Country Dance by Handel
Learning Target: Music Form
There are 2 parts to this music. A and B.
The song is ABA which in music is known as form. Can you skip to the A music? Can you Gallop to the B music? Can you hear when the music changes?
Be sure and repeat this activity several times. Change your A and B motions to get more creative.
Country Dance by Handel from Water Music
2. In the Hall of the Mountain King by Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg
Learning Target: Hear changes in tempo and dynamics (tempo=speed of the music and dynamics = loud and soft in the music)
Keep the beat in your lap using spider fingers as you listen. Repeat and listen a second time.
Answer these questions:
What did you hear and notice in the music?
How did the music make you feel?
Did the music seem spooky?
Did you hear the music get louder and faster?
In the Hall of the Mountain King Grieg
3. Irish Washerwoman
Learning Target: Hear and move to music that has a fast tempo
Can you wash clothes by hand? Pretend you have no electricity and no washer of dryer. How would you wash your clothes? How would you dry them? Where would you get your water? Would you wash your clothes in cold or hot water? Would you use soap? How would you scrub out the dirt? As you listen to this music act out washing clothes by hand. Repeat this activity but this time act out cooking something while you pretend you have no electricity. Are you thankful for electricity? The Irish Washerwoman had no electricity. Her chores would have included washing clothes using a washboard, wringing out the clothes, hanging the clothes on clothesline, dusting the house, sweeping the floor, stirring the stew, ironing the clothes etc.
Videos on the orchestra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0Jc4sP0BEE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFqEcr3dQfc
https://acomusicandart.com.au/year-1-for-students/lesson-2/
String family
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvJDEHlisGM
Percussion family
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QA
Woodwind family
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bk_qfil8bYU
Brass family
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5162icRy6Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0GRdRlkmyo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZO5KTJTwhE
a. What is an orchestra?
b. Can you hear the drums in this music? the flute? the violins? trumpets?
4. Itsy Bitsy Spider
Learning Target: Compare two versions of this song.
Enjoy two versions of the Itsy Bitsy Spider by listening to each. Move your fingers like a spider to the first one by Carly Simon
Dance like crazy to the one by Little Richard.
How are they different? How are they the same? Which one is your favorite or do you like both?
Carly Simon
Itsy Bitsy Spider by Carly Simon Coming Around Again
Little Richard
Itsy Bitsy Spider Little Richard
5. Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy
Learning Target: Hear a Celeste or Celesta as seen below.
Can you move like a puppet/marionette to this music? Can you spin and untangle your strings when you hear the celeste play a solo? It happens in the music at about 1:03.
What other instrument does the celeste look like? See picture
Does it sound like a piano to you? Does the sound of it remind you of a music box?
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/celesta
ce·les·ta | \ sə-ˈle-stə , chə- \
variants: or celeste \ sə-ˈlest , chə- \
Definition of celesta
: a keyboard instrument with hammers that strike steel plates producing a tone similar to that of a glockenspiel
Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy by Tchaikovsky
6. Stars and Stripes Forever
Learning target: March while keeping the beat.
March to this music. Did you know this is the tune of the Osseo-Fairchild school song?
https://drive.google.com/file/d/122eIkTGWdBnC-J9JPfaHDN1oFoX_p3Q9/view?usp=sharing
7. Syncopated Clock
Learning Target: Steady Beat
Keep the beat by making tick tock motions with different body parts.
Use your arms, legs, head wrists, elbows etc.
If you have a silky scarf around your house, walk around the room dabbing it into the air or making polka-a dots.
If the music is smooth, stop and swing the scarf side to side. Or toss it in the air and catch it.
What do you think happened to the clock at the very end of the song?
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sjYvJGVWD2oP18JwXCtegst5W8bwRQbC/view?usp=sharing
8. Allegro from La Primavera from the Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi
Allegro from La Primavera by Vivaldi
In taberna quando sumus from Carmina Burana by Carl Orff
Courente by Johann Schein
Andante from Symphony #94 by Franz Joseph Haydn
Learning Target: Learn two dynamic markings and what they mean: forte (f)=loud and piano (p)=soft in music. Experience these in listening examples listed above.
Each of the selections above give examples of piano and forte in music. Keep your hands close together when the music is soft or piana and spread your hands apart when the music is loud or forte. Repeat each activity and listen to the music with your eyes closed while showing the forte and piano in the music. Remember to have your volume turned up on your chromebook, computer or phone.
9. Chinese Dance from the Nutcracker by Tchaikovsky
Learning Target: Hear phrases and tap eight notes and quarter notes in the phrases of music.
After an 8 beat introduction
Part 1 tap your fists on your knees for 8 beats alternating your hands playing the eighth notes or ti-ti
Part 2 tap your hands on the floor for 8 times doing the quarter note pulse hands together 8 times.
Continue alternating between part 1 and part 2 five times.
Then Part 2 three additional times. On the last beat raise your arms in the air.
Repeat this activity until you are secure on it. Then try it with some wooden spoons if you have them. Please ask your parents for permission to try the activity above with wooden spoons or spatulas.
10. Etude #2, Opus 10 by Frederic Chopin
Learning Target: Describe music, tell how it makes you feel, describe what you hear and move to the music.
Listen to the piece. Answer the following questions.
What instrument did you hear?
Describe the music.
How did the music make you feel?
Was the music high or low? Fast or slow?
Listen again a second time. Did the music remind you of the wind. Move like a leaf or a kite being blown around by the wind.
11. Funeral March of a Marionette by Charles Gounod
Learning Target: Feel the pulse of music or beat
Keep the beat to this music on your lap. Find out what a marionette is. Discuss the title what does the title mean? Walk around like your arms and legs are tied to strings like a marionette to the music. Tell someone what you liked about the music. “ I liked the…”
For instance, I like the loud accented parts in the music.
Does this music feel a little spooky to you?
12. Hanyome Ningyo from Japanese Melodies for Flute and Harp
Learning Target: Listen to the sound of a flute and harp.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rCrq3E6cV8maUmubJTDpovtLoGXzZuoy/view?usp=sharing
If you have a scarf move to the music through space while swaying the scarf. If you do not have one, move with your arms. Explore moving high and low to the sound of each instrument. First time move when you hear the harp. Try it a second time and move to the sounds of the flute only. Can you move to show the music with your body or your scarf?
13. Hungarian Dance by Johannes Brahms
Learning Target: Listen to a piece with major and minor passages
Hungarian Dance #3 by Johannes Brahms
Listen to the piece and answer the following questions.
The form of this piece is Introduction, ABABCBA.
Can you find the sections that are happy?
Can you identify the section that is sad?
Can you hear the section that is scary?
Listen a second time: Act out the music. Skip on the A section, hide and act frightened on the B section, and act joyful on the C section like you are celebrating. {Pretend you are lost and then suddenly you find your parents for part C.}
14. King of Pride Rock
Learning Target: Move through time and space.
Listen to this music. You only need to listen to the first 60 seconds. Listen longer if you wish.
Can you guess what Disney movie this comes from?
Listen again. Remember to remain silent as you listen. Get a partner. Mirror each other. Try to bend, flex, twist, turn, push, pull, expand, collapse as you mirror each other. Repeat and let your partner now be the leader.
15. Rhythms of Life by Ephat Mujuru
Learning Target: Explore different ways to keep the beat.
As you listen, explore different ways to keep the beat. Use different body parts and movements to show the beat of this music. Use your hands, knees, wrists, hips, legs, feet,fingers elbows, waist, head, etc. Ask a friend to move with you and share different movement ideas with each other by copying one another.
16. Tortoises by Camille St. Saens
Learning Target: Learn how this composer wrote a musical joke. Discover slow music.
This music is the Can Can melody. It is a lively and very, very fast piece of music. Here is an example of it in its original form. Move quickly to it for fun.
Camille St. Saens, a French composer decided to write a musical joke for his students at the music conservatory. He slowed the “Can Can” music down and called it Tortoises. A tortoise moves very slowly. Can you move as slowly as a tortoise to the Tortoise music? Can you hear the “Can Can” melody in Tortoises?
Here is a video about Tortoises who live in the Galapagos Islands.
The Galápagos Giant Tortoise is the largest tortoise on the planet. These giant animals have become the master of survival and continue to live a slow and peaceful life on the Galápagos Islands.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUBCLx3Upwc
17. Aquarium by Camille St. Saens
Learning Target: Learn how this composer wrote a musical joke.
What is an aquarium? Can you draw an aquariam on a large sheet of paper? What kinds of fish will you put in your aquariam?
Can you swim to the music? As you listen can you hear when to swim higher or lower as the music climbs and descends?
Camille St Saens student's asked him if he could write a musical joke? So he wrote the Carnival of the animals. His music makes you think of the animal?
18. Baby Elephant Walk by Henry Mancini
Learning Target: Listen to a great piece or fun jazz music.
Just have fun listening to this piece. What style of music do you think this piece is? Can you hear the tuba? Do you know what family the tuba is in? It is in the brass family. Can you find the mouthpiece on this tuba? The bell? The valves where you put your fingers? How big do you think this instrument is?
Walk like a baby elephant swinging its trunk. :)
19. Danse Macabre
Learning Target: Listen to music that is a little bit spooky.
Danse Macabre Camille St Saens
Could you hear a familiar tune in this song? Can you hear the violins, a flute, the woodwinds, or drums?
20. Dies irae
Viennese Musical Clock from Harry Janos Suite
Fossils from Carnival of the Animals
Percussion from Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra
Sabre Dance
Bolero
Rondeau by Mouret
Learning Target: Learn about the Percussion Family. Hear examples of timpani, crash cymbals, xylophone, snare drum, bass drum, and chimes. Discover that all percussion instruments make their sound by striking the instrument. In this activity you will be exploring sounds of percussion instruments.
Picture of Percussion Family Instruments
Dies Irae
Dies Irae from Requiem by Verdi
Which drum plays the accents in the first part of this recording?
Viennese Musical Clock
Viennese Musical Clock by Zoltan Kodaly
Which Instrument plays the introduction?
Fossils
Fossils by Camille St Saens from Carnival of the Animals
Raise your hand when you hear the xylophone. The xylophone is supposed to sound like rock or bone clicks.
Percussion from Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra
Percussion Family from Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra
Which three percussion instruments do you hear?
Listen a second and third time. Do you hear any other percussion instruments in the background? See if you can hear a triangle or a tambourine.
Sabre Dance
Can you hear the xylophone in this piece?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUQHGpxrz-8
Bolero
Can you hear the snare drum in this piece?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhhkGyJ092E
Rondeau by Mouret
Can you hear the timpani in this piece?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhfnGMzPfco
21. Gagliarda
Learning Target: Practice rhythm patterns that use the dotted half note (3beats long) to a great song.
Chart of rhythms
Use chart to practice rhythm patterns with the dotted half note. Play on spoons or sticks or pat patterns on your body.
22. Gavotta by Arcangelo Corelli
Learning Target: Practice quarter, half and whole note rhythms.
Gavotta from Concerto Grosso by Corelli
Use your body to create movements that are 1 beat long.
Use your body to create movements that are 2 beats long.
Use your body to create movements that are 4 beats long.
23. Gymnopedie by Eric Satie
Learning Target: Mirror movements with a partner. Learn what mirroring looks and feels like as a leader and as a follower.
Move slowly as you copy movements by yourself in a mirror. OR Move slowly while a partner copies your movements. Switch and let your partner be the leader. How did it feel to be a leader? How did it feel to follow? Were you able to look exactly the same as each other the entire time?
24. Hasche Mann from Kinderszenen by Robert Schuman
Baby Elephant Walk Henry Mancini
Menuetto Mozart
Minuet from Water Music Handel
Learning Target: Learn to conduct in 2/4 time and ¾ time
Conductors lead the musicians/singers. Bring your hand/arm down and up to conduct in 2/4. To conduct in ¾ go down, out and up in a triangle shape.
Conduct in ¾ time Chart
Conduct in 3-4 time Grade 3.jpg
Conduct in 2/4 time Chart
Conduct in 2-4 time-Grade 3.jpg
Here is an example of 2/4. It is not necessary to point your finger.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adzryucthVM
Try to conduct to the following songs below. Remember to click on the link.
Hasche Mann 2/4
Baby Elephant Walk 2/4
Here is an example of 3/4. It is not necessary to point your finger.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYncEmUbisk
Menuetto 3/4
Meunetto from Symphony # 25 by Mozart
Minuet from Water Music 3/4
Minuet from Water Music Handel
25. Passamezzo Moderno from Ostinato by Diego Ortiz
Learning Target: Feel music in ¾ time. Move to music in ¾ time. Conduct in ¾ time.
Passamezzo Moderno by Diego Ortiz
This is a very energetic piece of music. I love it’s driving rhythm.
Conducting in ¾ time chart
Conduct in 3-4 time Grade 3.jpg
Listen and Sway right counting 1-2-3. Sway left 1-2-3. Be sure to swing your arms and bend your knees as you sway.
Listen and pat beat 1 on your leg. Tap hands together beat 2 and 3. Count out loud if you need to.
Listen again and alternate between the two ideas listed above.
26. Twelfth Street Rag
Learning Target: Learn form in this music. Listen to an introduction, themes a, b , c, d, an interlude and a coda. Learn what they mean. Tap Rhythms to this song or keep the beat to this song. Hear what the musical style of ragtime sounds like in the musical example.
Twelfth Street Rag by E. Bowman
Tap these rhythms while you play along to the recording. Try tapping each one on a different body part. For example: tap head, brush hands, pat knees or pound fists.
Rhythm Chart Link
https://drive.google.com/file/d/10M2FpasnngARwtpkoP1bWxf8jVUKW-CC/view?usp=sharing
An introduction happens at the beginning of a piece of music. It introduces you to the song and opens it up.
An interlude is a connecting piece of music. It connects 2 other sections of music.
A Coda is a special ending to the music.
Themes are sections of the music. They can be the same or they can be different. If they are the same then they are labeled A and them A repeated. If they are different the first would be labeled A and a new theme would be labeled B etc.
27. Allegro
Sonata for Flute in Bb Major
Rhapsody in Blue by George Gershwin
Fantasy #1 in A Major Largo
Three of a Kind
Parable XII for Solo Piccolo
Learning Target: Discover sounds of instruments in the Woodwind Family-Saxophone, Flute, Oboe, Bassoon, Piccolo, Clarinet.
Pictures of Woodwind Family Instruments
Woodwind Family chart -grade 4.jpg
Allegro from Bassoon Concerto by Antonio Vivaldi
Which orchestral family is accompanying the bassoon? (String Family)
Sonata for Flute and Piano in B flat Major by Hindemith
Which woodwind instrument do you hear with the piano? (flute)
Rhapsody in Blue by George Gershwin
Using your arms, draw the shape of the melody played by the clarinet at the beginning of Rhapsody in Blue.
Fantasy # 1 in A Major by Telemann
How many oboes do you hear in this piece? (one)
Which solo instrument do you hear following the short introduction? (Saxophone)
Parable XII for solo Piccolo by Persichetti
How would you describe this piece for solo piccolo?
Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vbvhU22uAM
This video will have all the orchestra in it. See if you can hear and find the woodwinds.
Here are 2 short woodwind recordings from Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra. Compare the sound made by each orchestra. Each clip is about 25 seconds long.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GjOEbXX83k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoHL0UZr-Bw
28. Bordunubungen
Learning Target: Hear a piece in a minor key and practice mirroring with a partner.
Move slowly as you copy movements by yourself in a mirror. (OR) Move slowly while a partner copies your movements. Switch and let your partner be the leader. How did it feel to be a leader? How did it feel to follow? Were you able to look exactly the same as each other the entire time?
29. Bunny Hop
Learning Target: Learn to dance the bunny hop.
Bunny Hop by Ray Anthony and Leonard Auletti
Place your right foot out to the side and back 2x. Repeat the same move with the left foot out 2 times and back. Hop forward 1x. Hop backward 1x. Hop forward 3 times. Repeat. If you cannot figure out the dance watch this video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4VzAIApkd0
30. Canzon IX
Rondo from Concerto in Bb Major
Fanfare for the Common Man by Aaron Copland
Elegy for Mippy II by Leonard Bernstein
Learning Target: Discover the Brass Family. Learn the names of the brass family instruments. Hear the sounds of the brass family.
https://drive.google.com/drive/search?q=canzon
Rondo from Concerto in B flat Major by Mozart
Fanfare for the Common Man by Aaron Copland
Elegy for Mippy II Leonard Bernstein
30. Courante
Learning Target: Listen to a recorder piece.
Can you hear the drum?
Use words to describe what you heard in the music.
31. East St. Louis Toodle-oo
Learning Target: Move different parts of your body to the beat.
East St.Louis Toodle-oo by Steely Dan
This is such a fun song. Move your elbows, nod your head,twist, step side to side, raise and lower your knees, bend your wrists, turn in a circle or create your own movement to this song.
Do it again and pretend you are a scarecrow as you repeat the movements.
32. Friendship Theme
Learning Target: Experience shadowing with a partner to music in ¾ time.
Friendship Theme by George DeLerue
Move slowly as you copy movements by yourself in a mirror. (OR) Move slowly while a partner copies your movements. Switch and let your partner be the leader. How did it feel to be a leader? How did it feel to follow? Were you able to look exactly the same as each other the entire time?
Repeat this activity but this time partners do not face each other but both face the same direction. In other words the follower is looking at the leader’s back. Switch and let the next leader be in front.
33. Gabriel’s Oboe
Learning Target: Experience shadowing with a partner to music in ¾ time.
Do this activity but have partners do both face the same direction. In other words the follower is looking at the leader’s back. Switch and let the next leader be in front. Move to the music. Discuss with your partner what was difficult, what was easy, and how to make changes so that you both look the same-like a shadow. Hint: Move slowly.
34. Gavotte #1 from English Suite
Learning Target: Experience two part form. Feel half rests with a half note pulse. Remember half rests are two beats long.
Recording
Gavotte #1 from English Suite # 3 Bach
Picture Chart 1-Rhythms
Picture Chart 2-Stars and Diamonds
Click on the links above to see the charts.
This activity is a ton of fun for the kids in the classroom.
Listen to the recording and keep the beat.
Listen again and clap the star rhythm only as you listen. It is the (theme A) melody or the star pattern in chart 2. Listen and repeat this step again if you have trouble clapping the rhythm. See chart 1.
Listen again and pat 4 half note rests for each diamond or the (B theme) in chart 2.
Create-Extend this activity by creating a hand game for the diamonds. The hand game should be 8 beats long and can be done alone or with a partner. For the hand game think a patti-cake type pattern.
Repeat as needed to perfect and practice.
Repeat again but create a new hand pattern for the diamond shapes. Remember the pattern needs to be 8 beats long.
35. If Love Now Reigned
Learning Target: Listen to a recorder. Experience Timbre.
Timbre refers to the quality of a sound made by a particular voice or musical instrument; timbre is useful in being distinct from pitch, intensity, and loudness as a descriptor of sound.
Listen and answer the following questions.
Question 1: What instruments do you hear in addition to the recorders?
Question 2: How does this music make you feel?
36. Levan Polka Things of Beauty
Learning Target: Move and Freeze to music.
You will need a person to start and pause the recording for you. Move freely through space to the pulse of the music. Try using different directions and pathways. Let the music drive your movements. When the person in charge of the recording hits pause. Freeze and make a shape. Try to make shapes of different levels using high, middle or low shapes. This is a great piece of music. I hope you enjoy it.
37. Pavane de la Belle au bois dormant
Learning Target: Shadow with a partner or in a group of 3 or 4.
Pavane de la Belle au bois dormant Ravel
Do this activity but have all partners do face the same direction. In other words the followers are looking at the leader’s back. Switch and let the next leader be in front. Move to the music. Discuss with your group what was difficult, what was easy, and how to make changes so that everyone looks the same. (like a shadow) Pivot to switch to the next leader. Hint: Move slowly.
38. Recorder Sonata in a minor by Handel
Learning Target: Listen to a recorder piece and hear a pick up note.
Recorder Sonata in a minor by Handel
What is a pick up note? It is a note that starts on any beat in the measure except beat 1. It is a measure of music at the beginning of a song that does not have all the beats. For example in 4/4 time a pick up note or notes would start on beats 2, 3, or 4. Beat 1 is the heavy beat in each measure. Keep the beat as you listen. What other instruments can you hear?
39. Sleigh Ride by Leroy Anderson
Learning Target: Listen to this joyful holiday piece. Keep the beat as you listen.
Recording
Chart with movements.
Leroy Anderson is an American composer. Can you hear which instrument near the end plays the horse sound? Hint: It is a member of the brass family.
Here are a couple other great pieces by Leroy Anderson. The Typewriter, The Syncopated Clock and Jazz Pizzicato See if anyone in your family recognizes this piece of equipment without watching the video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OuKPtcYcZ0
https://drive.google.com/file/d/163JHKf_s2kNAjhGQw1zqnSh6GQH-kSFG/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FYKsWYEqM0D-SpOiEVVNVXOPiSSVsrmm/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ES3jUo5L_iuKPsR_rqIprXaJx6CnbuYG/view?usp=sharing
40. Stucke fur Flote und Schlagzeug
Learning Target: Hear the timbre of instruments. Listen for a glissando.
Stucke for fluteand Schlagzent by Orff
The title of this song is in German. Can you guess what Flote might be? What do you think the word Stucke means in German? Can you figure out what Schlagzeug means in German?
Which kind of recorder is playing the melody?
What is a glissando? Raise your hand when you hear a glissando played on the xylophone.
41. Stucke fur Flote und Trommel
Learning Target: Listen to a tenor and soprano recorder. Discover the recorder family.
Stucke for Flute and Trommel by Carl Orff
Which two recorders do you hear?
What happens to the melody when both recorders play?
Chart of Recorder Family
Which recorder plays the lowest sounds?
Which recorder do you play?
Which two recorders sound higher than the soprano recorder?
42. Trepak from the Nutcracker by Tchaikovsky
Learning Target: Enjoy a famous ballet piece from the famous story of the Nutcracker. Learn what a ballet is. Discover the form of this piece.
Video of Ballet Dancers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgyliXHF9j8
As you watch this ballet were you surprised by the energy of this dance? Do you think you could do any of these dance moves or jumps? Do you think ballet is easy or hard? How long do you think these ballet dancers had to practice?
Can you guess what a ballet is? Here is the definition if you are not sure. Ballet is an artistic dance form performed to music using precise and highly formalized set steps and gestures. Classical ballet, which originated in Renaissance Italy and established its present form during the 19th century, is characterized by light, graceful, fluid movements and the use of pointe shoes. Ballet can also tell a story through dance.
The form of this piece is A A B Interlude A Coda Can you listen again and hear the different sections of this piece?
Can you create dance moves for the A and B sections? Remember they need to be the same dance moves for each A section.
43. Trumpet Tune from King Arthur
Learning Target: Conduct in ¾ time.
Trumpet Tune from King Arthur by Purcell
Conducting Chart of ¾ time
Conduct in 3-4 time Grade 3.jpg
Be the conductor and conduct to this piece.
Click on the conducting chart for the pattern. Make a triangle shape with your hand and arm to show beats in sets of 3.
What happens at the end of the recording?
Can you tell how many seconds or minutes long this piece is?
44. Stucke for Sopran-Blockflote und Schlazzeng
Learning Target:
Stucke fur Sopran-Blockflote und Schlagzeng by Orff
Can you guess what the words in the title mean? They are in German. Listen to the song and see if it helps you figure out the what the words mean? Hint: Sopran Blockflote means soprano recorder.
45. Ride By Nights
Learning Target:
Ride by Nights by Benjamin Britten
46. Take Five by Dave Brubeck
Learning Target: Listen to a piece of music in the jazz style. This piece is in 5/4 time which makes it more enjoyable because of the uneven feel of 5 beats per measure.
47. Passacaglia from suite #7 in g minor by Handel
Learning Target:
Passacaglia from Suite #7 in g minor by Handel
What instrument is playing Passacaglia?
48. Badinerie by Bach
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49. Sounds from Woods
Learning Target:
Sounds from Woods by Earth Beat
50. Reprinse by Michael Praetorius
Learning Target:
Reprinse by Michael Praetorius
51. Polarka Polka
Learning Target: A polka is a bouncy dance. In fact the polka is the state dance of Wisconsin.
52. Pink Panther
Learning Target:
Pink Panther Theme by Henry Mancini
53. Pick a Little, Talk a Little
Learning Target: Hear sixteenth notes in a song.
Pick a Little, Talk a Little from The Music Man
Can you hear the Sixteenth notes in this song?
Do you know what famous musical this song comes from?
54. Pata Pata
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55. Arabian Dance by Tchaikovsky from the Nutcracker Suite
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56. Now is the Month of Maying by Thomas Morley
Learning Target:
Now is the Month of Maying by Thomas Morley
57. New Hampshire Hornpipe
Learning Target:
New Hampshire Hornpipe by Dave Grusin Cinemagic
58. Mis Cantigas 2 Canticles #1
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59. Mai Nozipo
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60. Los Machetes Mariachi music
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61. La Ductia-Recorder
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62. Kojo No Tsuki Japanese Melody for Flute and Harp
Learning Target:
Kojo No Tsuki Japanese melody for Flute and Harp
63. Inward Journey
Learning Target:
Inward Journey from Canyon Trilogy
64. Hot Lunch Jam from Fame
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65. Praladium from Holberg Suite by Grieg
Learning Target:
Praludium from Holberg Suite by Grieg
66. Gavotte from French Suite by Bach
Learning Target:
Gavotte from French Suite by Bach
67. Concerto for Timpani: Bachroque by Rosauro
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Concerto for Timpani: Bachroque by Rosauro
68. Common Threads by Bobby McFerrin
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69. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen Mannheim Steamroller
Learning Target: Listen to a great piece of music!
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen-Mannheim Steamroller
70. Choo Choo Ch’Boogie by Darling and Horton
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Choo Choo Ch'Boogie by Darling and Horton
71. Canzon IX by Giovanni Gabrieli
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72. Canon ad Monam
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73. Bunny Hop by Anthony and Leonard
Learning Target: Dance to this music.
Here are the steps:
Kick your right foot out to the side 2 times, kick your left foot out to the side two times
Jump forward, jump back, jump forward, forward, forward. Keep repeating this entire sequence for the entire song.
74. Brian Boru’s March by Carol Thompson
Learning Target:
Brian Boru's March by Carol Thompson
75. Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy
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76. Carnival of the Animals Unit by Camille Saint-Saens
Click on each of the individual links to enjoy activities that accompany each of the 14 songs in the Carnival.
Royal March of the Lions, Hens and Roosters, & Mules
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KNBFQNDIXdUTAGpkNlgPfuearjrZR-LFqJeFQDw8TRY/edit?usp=sharing
Tortoises, Elephants, Kangaroos, Aquarium
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1W8pwAQ45ICo0dTxsGZeNyTcP13BreU2STXSJ2WtNprg/edit?usp=sharing
Animals with Long Ears, Cuckoo, Birds/Aviary, Pianists
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MdErlt2EHMFucZ92qFr83cV27ac-agb3iXz5LOGUs14/edit?usp=sharing
Fossils, Swan, Finale
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o8y2aY27Ndyh1LFAFBOmMy23JUDwRiHAXxlwXxU0a7A/edit?usp=sharing
77. The Violin Danced Book and listening activities.
Learning Target: Understand the sound of the violin. Keep the beat to a song with a simple dance.
1. Watch this book The Dance of the Violin.
THE DANCE OF THE VIOLIN | MAGGIE READS | Children's Books Read Aloud!
2. Watch a world famous violin player named Joshua Bell. Did you notice he is not using music but plays from memory. Do you think the music he is playing is hard or easy?
Joshua Bell plays Brahms' Hungarian Dance No. 1
3. How do you think Joshua Bell became this good? Tell someone or write about him.
4. Here is another world famous violin player. His name is Michael Cleveland. Mr. Cleveland is blind but still learned to play the violin. Isn't he amazing!!! When Michael plays they say he is a fiddler. The fiddle is a nickname for the violin. The fiddle is still a violin it is just played differently.
Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper: Lee Highway Blues | Jubilee | KET
5. Mr. Bell's song is so different from Mr. Cleveland's. Mr. Bell played a classical piece and Mr. Cleveland plays in the bluegrass style. Which music style do you like better or do you like both even though they are so different? It is great to like different styles of music.
6. Here are links if you would like to learn more about Michael Cleveland and Joshua Bell. These are optional.
7. Do the following dance with Mrs. Bee. See video below. I will attach a second video as well of the entire dance without the instructions.
Here is a video of just the dance.
Holiday Dance pg 40 Grade 1 Game Plan .webm
78. Harriet Tubman Songs and Activities
Learning Target: Learn about Harriet Tubman, sing a song about her and move to a song.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BT0bzsUcIqbebXZvvYu5mrItbhKTL4FYB6m1u7Nbev8/edit?usp=sharing
79. Milk Bucket Boogie by Reece Shipley
Learning Target: Boogie and keep the beat to a song about milking the cows.
Enjoy listening to the guitar. Pretend to milk a cow.
Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rc1Se9MZhAI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rc1Se9MZhAI
80. My Aunt Came Back
Learning Target: Learn to sing the song and do the motions.
Listen to My Aunt Came back several times. Echo sing the song. Try doing the motions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lj1zSP7dTw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9BjSfSpwA4
This version has alternate words but is the same tune!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysZvMtnion8
81. Funeral March of a Marionette
Listen to this cool piece. A marionette is a puppet on strings.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LefsSwV4zIw
82. The Typewriter by Leroy Anderson
What is a typewriter? What do you think came after the typewriter? Yes the keyboard and computer. Listen to this hilarious song where the rhythm is played on the typewriter. Notice the instruments of the orchestra as they accompany the solo typist.
Click here to see what a typewriter looked like. Do you know anyone who has a typewriter?
I think this video is funny. The orchestra even tunes the typewriter. Does a typewriter need to be tuned like the other instruments do? You are right. A typewriter does not need to be tuned.
https://www.facebook.com/ClassicFM/videos/the-amazing-typewriter-concerto/1193100047702308/
Here is another one to check out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2LJ1i7222c
Check out other musical selections by Leroy Anderson like Jazz Pizzicato, Sleigh Ride, or the Syncopated Clock. Leroy Anderson is a famous American composer. What does a composer do? A composer writes music. Do composer's get paid to write music? Yes they do! Do you think you could ever compose music like Leroy Anderson? How do you think he learned to become a composer?
About me
Hi,
My name is Lisa Bee. I have been teaching music in the Osseo-Fairchild School District since 1993. Prior to that I taught two years in the Dodgeland School District which at the time had 3 elementary schools in the towns of Juneau, Clyman and Lowell. I drove my car between those little towns racing to the schools to set up and teach in the gymnasium or in the classroom. Later at the Juneau elementary school I was allowed to secure the sports announcer's booth as my classroom. It had a huge window that overlooked the gym. I have directed 14 musicals here at O-F and it is an accomplishment that I am very proud of. I have directed numerous children's concerts and numerous children's choirs.
I graduated from college from UW Platteville where both of my parents also attended and received degrees. My mother in English Education and my father in agriculture. I also went to college one year at UW Richland and one year at Belmont college in Nashville, TN before coming home and settling down and attending UW Platteville. I got my master's degree from UW-La Crosse in education.
Some of my previous jobs included:
Some of my previous jobs included:
- Detasseling seed corn for two summers during High School
- Working at a farm and tractor implement (think answering phones)
- Waitressing at two different restaurants on weekends and in the summer
- Cashier at JCPenney in Eau Claire
- Teaching Piano lessons
My Hobbies include:
My Hobbies include:
Reading
Listening to Audio Books
Yoga
Pickleball
Biking/Walking/Hiking/Being outdoors
Gardening and landscaping around my house
Attending plays, musicals and concerts at area theaters in Wisconsin and Minnesota
Traveling to new places
I am married and my husband's name is Dan. Dan teaches at UW-Stout in the manufacturing engineering program. I have two boys Sawyer and Taylor. Sawyer attends UW La Crosse for college and will graduate with a teaching degree in May of 2023. Taylor attends UW Stout and is currently working toward a manufacturing engineering degree. They graduated from Osseo-Fairchild High School and were actor/singer/dancers in many of the musicals I directed. They both played violin and participated in baseball, acapella choir (The Danger Tones) and basketball. In addition, Taylor was in the Wisconsin State Honor's Choir and in the Elite Choir at Dorian Festival which is held at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa. Sawyer was an avid pitcher in high school and he now enjoys his dog Luna, working out and playing frisbee golf in his spare time. They both love skiing and snowboarding.
If you have any questions please feel free to contact me.
My email is lbee@ofsd.k12.wi.us and the phone number at school is 715-597-3196. Feel free to let me know about problems with my website.
I wish all of you a fantastic year.
Lisa
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