MUE 3210 Music in the Elementary Classroom

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MUE 3210 Music in the Elementary Classroom

• Singing and Playing Instruments

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• Lets sing an American Classic suitable for
  older childrenErie Canal

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• Lets Review the Score
• Erie Canal

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Key Signature 1 flat
Minor mode
MAJOR mode
Sharp Sign
Natural sign
Flat Sign
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Singing Across the Grades

• Grade K-3 sing primarily unison songs with
  limited ranges of an octave (8 notes)
• Grade 3-5 sing songs that are interesting, have
  grade appropriate texts, and ranges of up to 12
  tones (the Star Spangled Banner has a range of 12
  tones)

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Singing

• Selecting a Song
• Four factors help determine at what grade a song
  is sung
• The length of the song
• The amount of repetition
• The complexity of the text
• The complexity of the music

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Singing

• Rounds or canons
• The same music is sung by a different section of
  a group starting at different times an
  impolite echo start in grade 3
• Sample rounds
• Row, row, row your boat
• Frere Jacques
• Scotlands Burning
• Very entertaining for students to do, and have
  musically important implications as well

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Singing

• Part songs
• Part songs are slightly different from rounds
• The group is in two distinct parts, and the goal
  is melodic independence
• Not truly harmonic, but going towards harmonic
  singing
• Part songs are the next step in the vocal
  development of students (melody, round, part
  song, harmony)

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Singing

• Starting a song
• Students only need to know three things
• The pitch of the first note
• The tempo of the song
• When they should start

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Singing

• Starting a song
• Conducting is distracting, so dont conduct
  younger students
• Have a stock phrase that begins a song in tempo
  (e.g One, Two, Ready Sing (Go)

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Singing

• Introducing a New Song
• Concentrate on the interesting aspects of a song
• Chunking the process of breaking a song down
  into small, manageable portions that are taught
  sequentially until a song is learned
• Chunking is the easiest way to teach vocal music
  by rote

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Singing

• Teachers should not move the starting pitch of a
  song lower to make it easier to sing, but they
  can move it higher
• Tessitura the comfortable singing range
• Grades K-3, D to B (above middle C)
• Grades 3-5, D to D
• The best song melodies for children lie within
  their tessitura

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Improving Singing

• Stand or sit erect
• When you inhale, your abdominal wall should move
  out, not in
• As you sing, your abdomen should move in
• Your throat and neck should be relaxed
• Your mouth should be open ½ inch
• Project the sound through your forehead, not down
  in your throat
• Imagine projecting the sound across the room to
  some one or some object you see there.

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Playing Instruments

• In this class, you are learning to play the
  guitar as an accompaniment instrument
• For this class you are expected to
• Sing and play a two chord song
• Know the parts of the guitar and tablatures for
  D, G, A7, C, D7, E, E minor

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Instrument Groups

• Most classrooms have a variety of instruments
  available
• These are Percussion instruments, those that
  are played by striking them in some manner, with
  the hand or a mallet
• Unpitched percussion those that do not play a
  melody
• Pitched or Melodic percussion those that play
  melodies and/or harmonies

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Other Classroom Instruments Unpitched Instruments

• Triangle

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Other Classroom Instruments Unpitched Instruments

• Woodblocks, Tone Blocks, Rhythm Sticks

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Other Classroom Instruments Unpitched Instruments

• Cowbell

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Other Classroom Instruments Unpitched Instruments

• Sleigh Bells

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Other Classroom Instruments Unpitched Instruments

• Tambourine

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Other Classroom Instruments Unpitched Instruments

• Maracas

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Other Classroom Instruments Unpitched Instruments

• Guiro

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Other Classroom Instruments Unpitched Instruments

• Hand Drums

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Other Classroom Instruments Unpitched Instruments

• Cabasa

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Other Classroom Instruments Unpitched Instruments

• Cymbals

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Melodic Percussion Orff Instruments

• Designed by composer Carl Orff, this category of
  classroom melodic percussion instruments is
  specially made for children
• These instruments have bars that are played with
  mallets the bars can be removed
• There are three families of classroom melodic
  percussion instruments glockenspiels,
  xylophones, and metallophones
• These come in various ranges, and are labeled as
• Soprano, or the highest range
• Alto, the middle range
• Bass, the lower range, and
• Contra-bass and Sub-contra bass, the very lowest
  ranges.

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Glockenspiels

• Glockenspiel comes from the German glocken,
  meaning bells, and spiel, meaning play
• Modeled after the German instruments of the same
  name
• The bars are made of shiny steel and have a
  clear, bell-like sound when struck

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Glockenspiels

• Soprano
• Alto

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Xylophones

• Xylophone comes from the Greek word xylo,
  meaning wood, and phone, meaning sound
• Modeled after the African instruments of the same
  name
• The bars are made of wood the best are Rosewood

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Xylophones

• Soprano
• Alto

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Xylophones

• Bass
• Contra and
• Sub Contra Bass

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Metallophones

• Metallophone comes from the word metal, and
  phone, meaning sound literally metal
  sound
• Modeled after the Balinese gamelan instruments
• The bars are made of metal other than steel, and
  are not shiny
• The sound is rich and sustained

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Metallophones

• Soprano
• Alto

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Metallophones

• Bass

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Whats Coming Up

• Read Chapters 8 and 9 Singing in Elementary
  School Classrooms and Teaching About Melodies
• Grade 2-3 projects are due this Thursday.
  Accomodations ESOL, Speech impaired, physically
  challenged