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

SIGN UP WITH MS. FRANK AND FOR DETAILS

sfrank@yorkschools.org

NO AUDITIONS NECESSARY

REHEARSALS BEGIN 1/25/2021

ALL ON ZOOM MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAYS

Slideshow Presentation about a choice of Musician

 TEN STEPS TO A GREAT MUSICIAN SLIDE PRESENTATION

Due on December 15-22,  2020

1.) CHOOSE A MUSICIAN, COMPOSER, SINGER, SONGWRITER THAT INTERESTS YOU VERY MUCH. 

2.) FIND AT LEAST TEN FACTS ABOUT YOUR MUSICIAN.

3.) FIND FIVE AWESOME PICTURES OR PHOTOGRAPHS OF YOUR MUSICIAN.

4.) FIND ONE OF YOUR  FAVORITE SONGS OR PIECES OF THIS MUSICIAN.

5.) CREATE A LISTENING ASSIGNMENT FOR THE CLASS, THREE QUESTIONS. 

6.) CREATE A SLIDESHOW ON GOOGLE SLIDES TO SHARE WITH THE CLASS.

7.) PRACTICE YOUR SLIDE SHOW TO MAKE IT INTERESTING FOR THE CLASS.

8.) SHARE YOUR PROJECT WITH THE CLASS. PROJECT DUE DECEMBER 15TH, OR EARLIER. 

9) HAVE A DISCUSSION ABOUT ONE OR MORE OF THE SONGS WITH THE CLASS, HAVE STUDENTS SHARE THE ANSWERS TO YOUR LISTENING ASSIGNMENT WITH ALL OF THE CLASS. 

10.) ASK AS MANY QUESTIONS AS YOU NEED TO MAKE YOUR BEST SLIDESHOW! 

Response to Yo Yo Ma's Cello Suite #1

J.S. Bach Yo Yo Ma Cello Suite #1 

Today we listened to this piece in my sixth grade music class, just the first section of the suite, and one of our students wrote this poem for the assignment. It is really cool!

The clapping sounds like thunder, 

the music light and jittery,

 turns ominous then happy, 

it sounds like sitting with a warm blanket 

near a fire in winter, 

now the music is deadpan, 

the hunter stalks about, 

but the wolves are safe,

 the spring is coming, 

the bees are buzzing, 

if you look close, 

you can see their footsteps in the air, 

gone behind a cloud, 

never seen again. 

Youth is short and sweet.

RETWEET!

 THANK YOU JOAN CHITTISTER 

Music: The Places Life Cannot Reach Without It
I have a parrot who does not sing. She cries a lot if I leave the room—if anybody leaves the room actually. She screams for whatever she needs—though it’s your responsibility to figure out what that may be. She talks to herself by stringing a long list of very clear but totally useless syllables together while she chatters in my ear.
 
But when I sing to her, or play music for her, she stands stark still and listens without making a sound. She just perches there. Almost breathless. Almost frozen. It’s totally out of character—and totally understandable—at the same time. It is something that fascinates me. I watched her over and over again and then I got it: I do the same thing myself.
 
Here, in the music, is all the protection I need from my restless or anxious or empty self. Maybe music is the basic living instinct, I think: common to us all—parrot and person alike. It is the one thing in life that gets into my soul, that cuts it off from everything but the electrical impulses of the universe, that encapsulates me.
 
I began writing articles to music as a young teenager. I would choose a march or a symphony or a piano solo and “write” the outline of a sentence in march to its rhythm, to its accents, to its phrases. Or, I would string out a wispy dream, or punch up a great, sweeping grand symphony by writing lines in an equally long cadenza. Then I would put words to them rather than chords until the sentence on my paper sounded like the rise and fall of the end of the opera or the volley of the street band.
 
Strange, I know. But important to consider. The truth is that music is not a melody, it is a place in time. It is somewhere to go where no one else, no noise, no interruptions can intrude. It takes us in and closes us off from all the clamor of the universe.
 
It gives us balm. It touches our souls. It saves us from the straggle and cacophony of the world. It takes our noisy, crowded lives and quiets us in the orbit of the sublime.
 
Music is the only sound of heaven we’ve ever been given. Play it often. Play it well. Play it to put yourself back together again after noise and confusion of sound leave you tired and alone and lonely on the floor of life.
 
Then, one thing and one thing only can accompany us into ourselves—our memories, our hopes, the pace of our soul and the power to quiet us to everything except distraction. Indeed, music is where the soul goes to put into notes what cannot be said in words. Happy listening.

Sunrise Final Presentation

 

My Peaceful Place

 My Peaceful Place

From the mountains above, melted snow flows down the streams and creaks

Maine is an awesome state and is always what i seek 

Many are born in state that the Appalachian Trail winds through

I feel lucky enough to be from one of those states too

My home is with my dad on our 80-acre farm in York

Where me, my Gramps, and Dad raise chickens, beef, and port

Chorus:

Down on the farm i pass all my sunshine hours

Running wild through the many flowers

In my childhood happy home down on the farm

Rock, Folk, Country, and Hip Hop artists come from the Trail states

So full of talent playing at many venues and on different dates

Many award winners are from the least likely places

Here in Maine we are lucky enough to see their familiar faces

I put on my head phones to listen to their music

While i think about school and all the teachers rubrics

Chorus

States along the Appalachian Trail have produced so many stars

While working on our farm I find myself singing a few bars

Anything that takes away our peace is to expensive

A little thought i had while mending the broken fences

This is why i love it here, a place i dont have to worry

Where life is slow and i dont have to hurry

Chorus

Nothing like the smell of fresh cut grass while Gramps hays the fields

Listen to the chicken’s cluck, the cows moo, and the pigs squeal

This is the only home i have ever known 

My safe place and where i belong

I wonder how this became my fate a place i love so dearly

Im proud of my farm and love my family

I will forever carry on this farms legacy

While knowing this is where i need to think clearly

Chorus

I sit on the front porch staring out at the whild life and deer

Listening to music to easy my mind and my fears

I know how lucky i am to have been given this life

Maybe someday ill get to share it with my Dad, children, and wife

But not now, i am too young

While the hikers on the trail are putting on their gear tackling the trail

Ill be on the farm putting grain in the pails

If you hike to maine and would like to greet me 

Our farm on Libby Lane is where ill be 

A little piece of heaven i hold dear to me

Chorus

Chorus

More Student Lyrica

 LUCY BABY

Lucy means everything to me 

but i know she does not last forever 

but i will hold her in my heart. 

She has helped me throughout my life, 

she has been my emotional support animal,

 she has been my best friend

 and a very good dog. 

We have gone on very fun hikes 

walks on the beach 

but we can not do them any more 

because she is getting old. 

                                    Lucy oh Lucy, 

you have been my best friend

 and will always be 

Lucy oh Lucy 

She has been a very good friend and 

she loves a good walk 

but we would not be able

 to do the Appalachian trail. 

But she would still try to do it 

even though her legs are bad. 

 Lucy has loved me 

since I was a little baby.

 She would lay by my crib.

 I know she loves me

 but I think I am her favorite 

even though my dad 

thinks he is her favorite 

                                Lucy oh Lucy, 

you have been my best friend 

and will always be 

Lucy oh Lucy 

                She loves walks on the beach 

but we can not do them anymore

 but we can go on short walks

 in our neighborhood.

                                 Lucy oh Lucy, 

You have been my best friend 

and will always be 

Lucy oh Lucy

Student Lyrics

 I Wish she was here

Sun on the lake 

waters  as clear as a crystal

honestly it's the happiest time of the year

                                         boat rides, and blueberries, shopping and food

kayaks paddling ,swimming and  hiking 

fishing, and islands, and mountain biking  

 happy and calm with mountains surrounding

but She hasn't been here in three years i've been counting

i've  asked her come  but she never could go

can't believe she was 8 last time she came

I wish she was here----

I wish she was here     

cause it's no longer the happiest time of the year 

said she was coming then this whole covid thing happened

I wish she was here--- 

I wish she was here 

I'll be seeing her soon 

haven't seen her since june 

I wish she was here 

i wish she was here this year

Summative project A.T. Music 6th Grade

 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 Flat.io and/or Chrome music lab 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, 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.