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Sample Lesson
Plan:
The Language
of Music
- Review air movement and
sound.
- Create an understanding of
musical language.
- Introduce the concept of
musical notes.
- Reinforce understanding of
notes through creative exercise.
Suggested Activities:
- Role play notes in musical
poem.
- Draw notes on lined music
paper.
- Beat out note values with
drums and children's own sound makers.
- Introduce lines of the staff.
Review of air movement, "moving
it out and in."
For fun work, you were asked
to bring in something creative to make sounds. Let's try that-- all
together. That sounds confusing, more like noise.
How does sound become music?
Music has a language, just as
if you were to speak English. If I said, mom, boy, girl, ever one of
you would understand. In order for all players and singers to participate
together, there has to be a common language. Instead of an alphabet
or words, music uses symbols called "notes".
This poem will show you how
it's done:
I am a note.
My name is Quarter.
I live in a house called a Staff.
My father's name is Whole.
My mother's name is Half.
And, this is my baby brother, Eighth.
As you can plainly see, we are a musical
family.
Together, we make music.
Copyright © 1990 P. Lakatta
Practicing Notes
If there are four beats to a measure (demonstrate),
this is how the notes would sound:
Quarter: one, two, three, four
Half: one, two
Whole: O N E.......
Eight: 1/2
Experiment
On your music paper, let's practice drawing
notes. Can you become a note? (exercise
position for simulation exercises)
Exercise
Count out each note by value. Clap out note
values. Beat values on student provided instruments.
Exercise: Reading Music
Your music paper has lines (demonstrate lines
of the staff). From the first through the fifth they are: Every Good
Boy Does Fine. This will help you remember their names.
Funwork
1. Practice Drawing Notes. Bring this with
you next week.
2. Practice EGBDF.
3. Listen to the cassette, Everybody's
Got a Place. The first song on side two (Medley) is different from
the others. Do you know why? (Composed of parts of several songs on
the album).
Copyright © 1999 P. Lakatta
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