Discussion Questions

1. Consider the following sounds: birds chirping, honking car horns, the wind, cows mooing. Which do you consider “musical” and which are “noisy”? Why do you feel that way? Is it possible that someone might disagree with you, and why might they feel differently?

2. Name two songs or pieces of music you associate with certain times of the year. Why do you associate them with those times of the year?

3. What skills do you feel you have, that you acquired more quickly because you are a musician?

Taking Notes

Methods:

1. Cornell

2. Outline

3. Mapping

4. Charting

5. Sentence

Exercise: Reading pp. 4-7 together and taking notes

Epitaph of Seikilos

What does this teach us?

• We know more about how humans lived and how they have used music in the past because of this artefact

• We can relate, on a human level, to what someone was feeling almost 2,000 years ago

• Thanks to scholars’ work, we can reconstruct melodies from such a long time ago to know not only what they were singing about, but what the melodies sounded like