Year 3
Celebrations and Traditions
Celebrations and traditions connect people and communities
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What?
What?
We are learning:
- Songs from different parts of the World
- About musical elements: Pitch, Pulse, Rhythm, Expressive content
- About traditions and instruments from different cultures
Why?
Why?
We want to understand:
- How communities use music for different purposes (Function and Form)
- How celebrations and traditions help people to connect (Connection)
- Why communities celebrate (Causation)
How?
How?
We will achieve this by using:
- Research Skills:
- Gathering data
- Analysing data
- Communication skills:
- Listening
- Expressing ourselves through music and movement
Our project for this unit is to complete booklets with information and reflections about music in different parts of the World.
In class we are learning about music in different continents. We have looked at the characteristics of the music as well as traditional instruments. We have also discussed the key concepts Function and Connection that helped us understand what people use music for and how we can connect to different cultures through their music.
At home, students can complete the booklet by adding some interesting facts they find about the continents as well as a final reflection related to the countries and songs we learned about.
We started our trip with a great song that invited us to travel North, south, East and West.
You can listen to it again: Kalimba
In Africa we visited Kenya, Congo and Senegal.
Click on the names of the song to listen again
Jambo Bwana (Kenya)
Hello, hello (Congo)
Fatou Yo (Senegal)
This is a playlist with examples of African instruments
Africa Presentation
Africa_Presentation.pdfAfrica Booklet
World Music Booklet. Africa.pdfThis is a playlist with examples of Asian instruments
In Asia we visited Nepal, Japan and Indonesia.
Click on the names of the song to listen again:
Holi Ya Mela (Nepal)
Asadoya Yunta (Japan)
Mustard Fields (India)
Baris Warrior Dance (Indonesia)
Asia Presentation
Asia_Presentation.pdfAsia Booklet
World Music Booklet. Asia.pdfIn North-Central America we visited the USA, Mexico and Cuba:
Mardi Gras Mambo (USA) - Hanal Weech (Mexico) - Guantanamera (Cuba)
These are two playlists with videos of instruments from North and Central America:
North-Central America Presentation
North_CentralAmerica_Presentation.pdfNorth - Central America Booklet
World Music Booklet. NorthCentral America.pdfIn South America we visited Bolivia, Brazil and Colombia:
La Mariposa (Bolivia)
A Luz de Tieta (Brasil)
La arana picua (Colombia)
South America Presentation
SouthAmerica_Facts.pdfSouth America
World Music Booklet. South America.pdfIn South America we learned about symbolic notation. We looked at how we can represent sounds and played along to a cheerful Brazilian song. This is the score we used and a blank one that you can use to create your own version.
A Luz de Tieta Graphic.pdfA Luz de Tieta Graphic.Blank.pdfReport abuse