Summative Project Appalachian Trail

 

SUMMATIVE MUSIC PROJECT

6TH GRADE JAGUAR TEAM

Standard: Students will create their own compositions by applying the knowledge and skills of notation, symbols, and terminology of dynamics.

1.) Use the piano and/or Noteflight or Flat.io to create music that is inspired by your experience with the Appalachian Trail and the musicians you have listened to this semester.

2.)  Your piece of music should be at least 32 measures long.

3.) Your piece should have two time signatures in it, including 4/4 time, as well as one other.

4.)  Your piece should use whole notes, dotted half notes, half notes, quarter notes, double eighth notes and their corresponding rests.

5.)  Your composition should include an ostinato, and should have varying textures throughout the piece.

6.) Your composition needs to be in one of these musical forms: ABABAB, (verse, chorus, verse, chorus, verse chorus),  or ABABCAB, (verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge, verse chorus), Or you can use a Rondo, which we learned last year: ABACADA.  

7.) Use dynamics such as piano, forte, mezzo forte, pianissimo, and mark them in your piece so it is clear. 

8.) Use an interesting contour for your piece, so that it goes up and down gracefully, using scales and other notes that work well together. 

9.) Record yourself reading your lyrics  while your music is playing, to create a piece of performance art.  These are the lyrics you wrote earlier that describe your experience with music and nature this semester on the Appalachian Trail. Laurie Anderson- example of speaking over music

10.) Share your piece with the class (or me), add pictures that have inspired you of the trail or of places in Maine, or singers who have helped you in your creative process. 

 EXCEEDS OPTION:  Use your lyrics that you have written and create a melody that works with the lyrics, and make a video of the song.Exemplar for Exceeds option

Dynamics Project

 DYNAMIC PROJECT CHECKLIST -Create their own compositions by applying the knowledge and skills of notation, symbols, and terminology of dynamics.   

Due Monday, May 3, 2021 

ATTACH FINAL PIECE TO MAY 3rd Google Classroom 

1. LEARN THE DEFINITIONS OF THESE DYNAMICS AND WRITE THEM ON THE LINES

FORTISSIMO __________________________

FORTE_____________________________ 

MEZZO-FORTE________________________

MEZZO-PIANO___________________________

PIANO____________________________________

PIANISSIMO_________________________________

2.  WRITE DOWN EXAMPLES OF THESE DYNAMICS IN REAL SITUATIONS.

EX: FORTISSIMO: AN AVALANCHE OR A FIRE ALARM.

FF- An Avalanche

F- 

MF

MP

P

PP

3.  EXPERIMENT ON THE VIRTUAL  PIANO WITH THESE DYNAMICS, FINDING WAYS TO MAKE THESE DIFFERENT DYNAMICS.

4.  CREATE A PIECE OR COMPOSITION OR SONG THAT YOU WRITE DOWN IN YOUR OWN WAY,  USING ALL THE DYNAMICS YOU HAVE LEARNED.

5.  BE SURE TO LABEL YOUR PIECE WITH ALL THE DYNAMICS YOU HAVE LEARNED: YOU CAN USE FF, F, MF, MP, P, AND PP, OR YOU CAN WRITE THEM OUT IN FULL.

6.  PERFECT YOUR PIECE, USING DIFFERENT DYNAMICS.

7.  PLAY YOUR PIECE FOR ME, FOR A GROUP, OR FOR THE CLASS, YOUR CHOICE! 

8.  USE YOUR TIME WISELY.

9.  ASK QUESTIONS IF YOU NEED HELP.

10.  USE YOUR CREATIVITY AND THE NOTES OF THE PIANO TO CREATE YOUR PIECE, USE YOUR OWN IMAGINATIVE WAY TO WRITE DOWN YOUR PIECE, SO YOU CAN PLAY IT AGAIN AND AGAIN.  YOU CAN USE NUMBERS, NOTES, PICTURES, WORDS, WHATEVER WORKS FOR YOU!!  

EXCEEDS OPTION: Write at least a paragraph to describe the reasons why you chose the dynamics in the places that you did. Thanks!

First Day- Fifth Grade Music Class

 DO NOW: 1.)THINK ABOUT HOWLS IN YOUR SCHOOL LIFE.

2.) WHAT DO THEY LOOK LIKE?
3.) WHAT DO THEY LOOK LIKE IN MUSIC CLASS?
4.) WHAT DO THEY LOOK LIKE ONLINE? LIVE?

AGENDA:
1.) INTRODUCTIONS, MUSIC CLASS EXPECTATIONS.
2.) DYNAMICS! GET ON YOUR FEET, LISTEN, HEAR DEGREES OF LOUDNESS AND SOFTNESS OF SOUND.
3.) WHAT MAKES THE PIECE LOUD AND SOFT, OR FORTE AND PIANO?

Gloria Estefan - Get on your feet

Get On Your Feet

Lyrics

Get on your feet

Get up and make it happen

Get on your feet

Stand up and take some action

You say I know it's a waste of time

There's no use trying

So scared that life's gonna pass you by

Your spirit dying

Not long ago

I could feel your strength and your devotion

What was so clear, is now overcast

With mixed emotions

Deep in your heart is the answer

Find it, I know it will pull you through

Get on your feet

Get up and make it happen

Get on your feet

Stand up and take some action

I think it's true that we've all been through

Some nasty weather

Let's understand that we're here

To handle things together

You gotta keep looking onto tomorrow

There's so much in life

That's meant for you

Get on your feet

Get up and make it happen

Get on your feet

Stand up and take some action

Get on your feet

Don't stop before it's over

Get on your feet

The weight is off your shoulder

Awayo, Ahwayo...

Get up and make it happen

Stand up, stand up, stand up and take some action

Gotta get on your feet, yeah, yeah

Don't stop before it's over

Get on your feet

The weight is off your shoulder

Get on your feet

Get up, get up, get up and make it happen

Get on your feet

Stand up, stand up and take some action

Get on your feet

 One creative writing course in high school, she had a real favorite student in that class, and it surely wasn’t me.  I’m not a writer, don’t call myself one anyway, I can write, I have many stories to tell.  I love to tell stories, I love details and the thoughts that combine in your head and congeal, and focus and run and run and run.  I won’t blame that teacher for not choosing me as her favorite, I was no one's daughter, that’s to begin with, yeah, she is Noam Chomsky’s daughter, so of course she’d be brilliant.  I was talented in other ways, every main part in every play, see- I did tell stories all the time, just not my own, and I got every solo in the chorus, and did recitals at my mother’s restaurant. 

General Music Assignment Appropriate for Hybrid music classes

DO NOW: 1.) DISCUSS SONGS WITH TWO VERSIONS. AGENDA: 1.) DISCUSS SONGS WITH TWO DIFFERENT VERSIONS. 2.) CHOOSE ANOTHER SONG WITH TWO VERSIONS. 3.) LISTEN CAREFULLY TO EACH VERSION. 4.) CREATE A GOOGLE SLIDE WITH TWO VERSIONS. 5.) WRITE FIVE SIMILARITIES AND FIVE DIFFERENCES ON THE SLIDES.  

5.) EXAMPLES: WE CAN WORK IT OUT BY BOTH THE BEATLES AND STEVIE WONDER, MADMAN ACROSS THE WATER BY ELTON JOHN AND BRANDI CARLILE. SEE BELOW THE EXAMPLES.  

We Can Work it Out Beatles

We Can Work it Out- Stevie Wonder

Madman Across the Water- Elton John

Madman Across the Water- Brandi Carlile

Composition Project Planets online version

TEN STEPS TO YOUR PLANETS COMPOSITION

FINAL PROJECT DUE: JANUARY 25, 2021

Students create music in easy keys, meters, and rhythms with limited ranges accurately applying the knowledge and skills of: notation; symbols; and terminology of dynamics.

Students perform music of various styles and genres.

1. CHOOSE A PLANET OR ASTROLOGICAL SIGN OR MYTHOLOGY SUBJECT OR ASTRONOMY SUBJECT TO INSPIRE YOUR ORIGINAL COMPOSITION; USE YOUR CHOICE OF INSTRUMENTS, AT LEAST FOUR INSTRUMENTS,  USING FLAT.IO.

2.  WRITE  4/4 TIME AFTER THE TREBLE AND BASS CLEF. 

  CREATE YOUR COMPOSITION WITH THREE SECTIONS: ABA:  AN A SECTION OF EIGHT MEASURES- SIXTEEN MEASURES, A B SECTION OF EIGHT-SIXTEEN MEASURES AND A REPETITION OF YOUR A SECTION.  CAN HAVE LONGER SECTIONS IF YOU WISH. 

3.  CREATE AN OSTINATO TO USE IN YOUR PIECE, AS IN MARS OF TWO TO FOUR MEASURES WITHIN YOUR SECTIONS .(REPEATED RHYTHMIC OR MELODIC SECTION)  

HAVE YOUR OSTINATO PLAY TWO-FOUR TIMES.

4.  BE SURE TO ADD A BARLINE EVERY FOUR BEATS. (Flat.io will do this for you, but if you don’t have four beats in every measure a new measure will not appear.) MAKE SURE YOU HAVE AT LEAST THIRTY-TWO MEASURES  WHEN THE COMPOSITION IS COMPLETE.  

5.) Use dynamics such as piano, forte, mezzo forte, pianissimo, and mark them in your piece so it is clear. 

6.) Use an interesting contour for your piece, so that it goes up and down gracefully, using scales and other notes that work well together. 

7.  LISTEN TO YOUR PIECE AS YOU WRITE IT USING THE BUTTON ON FLAT.IO THAT WILL PLAY IT.  REMEMBER THAT YOUR FIRST MEASURES MAY NOT BE THE BEST ONES. 

8.  EXCEEDS OPTION:  CREATE LYRICS THAT REFLECT YOUR MYTHOLOGICAL SIGN OR YOUR PLANET THAT YOUR PIECE IS ABOUT. 

9.)  EXCEEDS 2.) CREATE A VIDEO OF YOU READING YOUR LYRICS OVER YOUR PIECE.  SEE THIS LAURIE ANDERSON VIDEO FOR AN EXEMPLAR. Laurie Anderson:  SEE ME WITH QUESTIONS. 

10.  PLEASE ASK QUESTIONS IF THERE IS ANYTHING YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND!  ESSENTIAL FOR SUCCESS IN ANY PROJECT IS ASKING QUESTIONS OR ASKING FOR HELP!!  I AM HERE FOR YOUR SUCCESS!!! 

 

ANNOUNCING THIS YEAR'S MUSICAL

 ANNOUNCING THIS YEAR’S MUSICAL

PARK BENCH 2021

WHERE EVERYTHING HAPPENS

A NEW MUSICAL BY 

GEORGE HOSKER-BOULEY

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REHEARSALS BEGIN 1/25/2021

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