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Table of Contents
Lesson one: Appreciation of culture through music.................................................................... 1
Beautiful Rainbow World Lyric Sheet . ................................................................................................................ 3
Beautiful Rainbow World Score .......................................................................................................................... 4
Lesson two: The Hornpipe............................................................................................................................ 7
Lesson three: Music, emotions, and special occasions ............................................................. 10
Alla Hornpipe Activity Sheet ............................................................................................................................. 13
Teacher Background Note: Alla Hornpipe ........................................................................................................ 12
Lesson four: Tone colour and the intended message ................................................................ 14
Family of Instruments Card . ............................................................................................................................. 16
Brass Family Card ............................................................................................................................................ 17
Woodwind Family Card ..................................................................................................................................... 18
String Family Card............................................................................................................................................. 19
Lesson five: Quarter note and a 2/4 musical measure ................................................................ 20
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star Lyric Sheet ............................................................................................................ 24
Bar Line Card .................................................................................................................................................... 25
2/4 Time Signature Card . ................................................................................................................................. 26
2/4 Quarter Note Measure Card ....................................................................................................................... 27
Rhythm Card 1 Quarter Note Clapping in 2/4 Time ......................................................................................... 28
Beat Card 1 ....................................................................................................................................................... 29
Rhythm Card 2 Counting with Oral Prompts .................................................................................................... 30
Lesson six: Quarter Note and Rest in 2/4 Time . ................................................................................ 31
Quarter Note Card............................................................................................................................................. 34
Quarter Rest Card ........................................................................................................................................... 35
Quarter Rest Measure Card.............................................................................................................................. 36
Rhythm Card 3: Notes and Rests in 2/4 Time................................................................................................... 37
Rhythm Card 4: Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star..................................................................................................... 38
Rhythm Card 5: Notes and Rests 2/4 Time with Oral Prompts . ...................................................................... 39
Lesson seven: Creating and performing rhythm patterns in 2/4 Time ................................. 40
Quarter Note/Quarter Rest Sheet .................................................................................................................... 43
Writing Rhythm in 2/4 Time Worksheet ............................................................................................................ 44
Lesson eight: Quarter Note and 4/4 Time............................................................................................. 45
This Old Man Lyric Sheet................................................................................................................................... 48
4/4 Time Signature Card.................................................................................................................................... 49
4/4 Quarter Note Measure Card........................................................................................................................ 50
This Old Man Example Card.............................................................................................................................. 51
Beat Card 2: Quarter Note Tapping in 4/4 Time................................................................................................ 52
Rhythm Card 6................................................................................................................................................... 53
Lesson nine: Quarter Notes and Rests in 4/4 Time........................................................................... 54
Rhythm Card 7: Notes and Rests in 4/4 Time .................................................................................................. 57
Rhythm Card 8: Notes and Rests in 4/4 Time Using Oral Prompts ................................................................. 58
Lesson ten: Eighth Notes, 4/4 Time and Simple Ostinati................................................................. 59
I’m a Little Teapot Lyric Sheet........................................................................................................................... 63
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Pie Example Card.............................................................................................................................................. 64
Eighth Note Card 1 ........................................................................................................................................... 65
Eighth Note Card 2 ........................................................................................................................................... 66
Eighth Note Measure Card in 4/4 ..................................................................................................................... 67
I’m a Little Teapot Rhythm Card......................................................................................................................... 68
Rhythm Card 9 Counting Eighth notes in 4/4 Time .......................................................................................... 69
Eighth Note Oral Prompts Card ........................................................................................................................ 70
Rhythm Card 10: Clapping Eighth Notes with Oral Prompts . .......................................................................... 71
Rhythm Card 11 ................................................................................................................................................ 72
Rhythm Card 12 ................................................................................................................................................ 73
Lesson eleven: Creating and performing rhythm patterns ...................................................... 74
Writing Rhythm in 4/4 Time Worksheet 1 ......................................................................................................... 77
Writing Rhythm in 4/4 Time Worksheet 2 ......................................................................................................... 78
Quarter Note Sheet . ......................................................................................................................................... 79
Quarter Rest Sheet ........................................................................................................................................... 80
Eighth Note Sheet . ........................................................................................................................................... 81
Lesson twelve: Performing complex rhythm patterns ............................................................... 82
Pattern 1 ( Ta - ta - ta - ta ) ...................................................................................................................... 84
Pattern 2 ( Ti-ti – ti-ti – ti-ti – ti-ti ) ..................................................................................................................... 85
Pattern 3 ( Rest -ta- rest - ta ) ...................................................................................................................... 86
Pattern 4 ( Rest- ti-ti - rest –ti-ti ) ..................................................................................................................... 87
Lesson thirteen: Performing complex rhythm patterns 2 ......................................................... 88
LESSON fourteen: Correct Breathing Technique ............................................................................ 90
Instruction sheet 1 (showing “marionette” stages) ........................................................................................... 92
Teacher Note: Singing Warm up Sheet ............................................................................................................ 93
Lesson fifteen: Recognizing and producing vocal pitches using Solfège ......................... 94
Teacher Reference 1 Solfège and Hand Signs ................................................................................................ 96
Teacher Reference 2 Curwen/Glover Hand Signs ........................................................................................... 97
Baa, Baa, Black Sheep Lyric Sheet .................................................................................................................. 98
Baa, Baa, Black Sheep Pitch Map . .................................................................................................................. 99
Baa, Baa, Black Sheep Hand Signs ............................................................................................................... 100
Student Hand Signs I ...................................................................................................................................... 101
Large Do-Re-Mi-Fa Cards) . ........................................................................................................................... 102
Small Do-Re-Mi-Fa Cards .............................................................................................................................. 106
Lesson sixteen: Recognizing and producing vocal pitches using Solfège 2......................110
Yankee Doodle Lyric Sheet . ............................................................................................................................112
Yankee Doodle Pitch Map . ..............................................................................................................................113
So-La-Ti-Do' Student Hand Sign Sheet 2 . ......................................................................................................114
Large So-La-Ti-Do' Cards . ..............................................................................................................................115
Small So-La-Ti-Do' Cards ................................................................................................................................116
Lesson seventeen: Recognizing and producing vocal pitches using Solfège 3............... 121
Frère Jacques Lyrics Call and Response ....................................................................................................... 124 Teacher Note: Frère Jacques Call and Response/Echo Card ....................................................................... 125
Frère Jacques Pitch Map 1 ............................................................................................................................. 126
Frère Jacques Pitch Map 2 ............................................................................................................................. 127
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Do-Re-Me-Fa-So-La-Ti-Do' Sheet ................................................................................................................. 128
Lesson eighteen: Creating monophonic melodies using repetition ................................... 129
Do-Re-Mi-Fa-So-La-Ti-Do Cards ................................................................................................................... 131
Writing Melody in 4/4 Time Worksheet . ......................................................................................................... 132
Lesson nineteen: Listening and Responding .................................................................................. 133
Family of Instruments Card (from lesson one)
Percussion Family Card . ................................................................................................................................ 135
Percussion Instrument Card ........................................................................................................................... 136
Timpani or Kettle Drum Card .......................................................................................................................... 137
Fanfare for the Common Man Activity Sheet ................................................................................................. 138
Fanfare for the Common Man Teacher Note .................................................................................................. 139
Lesson twenty: Creating non-pitched percussion instruments ......................................... 140
Percussion Instrument Activity Sheet ............................................................................................................. 142
Endnotes ........................................................................................................................................................ 144
CD Track List
Track 1 Beautiful Rainbow World by Daria
Track 2 The Sailor’s Hornpipe
Track 3 Handel: Water Music: Suites Nos. 2 and 3, HWV 349-350 - Suite No. 2 in
D major: II. Alla Hornpipe
Track 4 Aaron Copland: Fanfare for the Common Man
Track 5 Greig: Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 46 - I. Morgenstemning (Morning Mood)
Track 6 Verdi: La traviata, Act I: Libiamo ne'lieti calici, "Brindisi"
Track 7 Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
Track 8 Tapping to Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
Track 9 Counting Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, in 2/4 Time
Track 10 Clapping in 2/4 Time with Oral Prompts
Track 11 Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star with metronome
Track 12 Rhythm Card 3 example
Track 13 Rhythm Card 4 example
Track 14 Rhythm Card 5 example
Track 15 This Old Man
Track 16 Counting and Tapping in 4/4 Time
Track 17 Clapping in 4/4 Time with Oral Prompts
Track 18 Notes and Rests in 4/4 Time
Track 19 Notes and Rests 4/4 Time Oral Prompts
Track 20 This Old Man Fast
Track 21 I’m A Little Teapot
Track 22 Counting Eighth notes in 4/4
Track 23 Clapping Eighth notes in 4/4
Track 24 Ta-ta-ti-ti-ta
Track 25 Ta-ti-ti-ta-ti-ti
Track 26 I’m a Little Teapot Fast
Track 27 I’m a Little Teapot Hip Hop (optional)
Track 28 Pattern Examples
Track 29 Baa, Baa, Black Sheep Vocal
Track 30 Baa, Baa, Black Sheep Pitch Map excerpt
Track 31 Do-Re-Mi-Fa
Track 32 Yankee Doodle Vocal
Track 33 Yankee Doodle excerpt
Track 34 So-La-Ti-Do
Track 35 Frère Jacques
Track 36 Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti Do'
Track 37 Frère Jacques Call and Response
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Lesson five
TOPIC:
Using oral prompts to understand the concept of a quarter note and its relationship to a 2/4 musical measure.
CURRICULUM EXPECTATIONS:
Students will
● C1.1 Sing songs in unison and play simple accompaniments for music from a wide
variety of diverse cultures, styles and historical periods
● C1.2 Apply the elements of music when singing, playing, and moving
● C1.5 Demonstrate understanding that sounds can be represented by symbols
OBJECTIVE: By the end of the lesson, students will demonstrate the use of a
quarter note by clapping, counting and applying oral prompts to a
rhythm pattern written in 2/4 time.
MATERIALS:
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star Lyric Sheet
Track 7 Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
Track 8 Tapping to Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
Bar Line Card
2/4 Time Signature Card
2/4 Quarter Note Measure Card
Rhythm Card 1 Quarter Note Clapping in 2/4 Time
Beat Card 1
Track 9 Counting Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, in 2/4 Time
Rhythm Card 2 Counting with Oral Prompts
Track 10 Clapping in 2/4 Time with Oral Prompts
Track 11 Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star with Metronome
LESSON RATIONALE:
It is important to understand that music is a language and that as a language it has syntax. One way to think of this syntax is to view musical notes as letters. Just as letters
are put together to create words, notes are put together to create musical measures.
Just as some words have more letters than others, so too, do some measures have
more notes than others. The focus of this lesson is on performing musical rhythms in
2/4 time. Note that there are two parts to this lesson; therefore, it may take more than
one period to achieve the objective.
SUGGESTED LESSON SEQUENCE:
1. Tell the students that they will be listening to and singing along with a popular song
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star.
2. Play Track 7 Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star and have the students sing along with it.
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3. Explain to the students that they will be focusing on two aspects of the song: the beat
and the rhythm.
4. E
xplain that the beat of the song is the steady pulse that goes throughout the song. Sometimes this pulse is heard and sometimes it is not, but it is always present. We can keep the
beat of a song by tapping our foot in a steady fashion along with the song. The beat is one
of the most important parts of the song because it is the foundation for the rhythm.
5. We can represent a beat musically using a quarter note. Each quarter note has the
value of one beat. Below is an example of two quarter notes.
q q
6. The rhythm is played around the beat. Sometimes it is on the beat and sometimes
it is in between beats. Sometimes, there is silence, which is also part of the rhythm.
When we clap along with what we are singing we are clapping the rhythm of the song.
For additional instruction on beat and rhythm, review the concepts of beat and rhythm
from Teachers’ Choice/ Step-by-Step core manuals.
7. Play Track 8 and have the students tap their feet along with the beat. The students’
tapping pattern should be consistent. There should not be any pause or break in the
pattern. See below:
Twin – kle, Twin – kle, Lit – tle, Tap tap Tap tap
Tap tap
Star
Tap
tap
8. In the pattern above, notice that we continue to tap even when there is no lyric. In this
case the beat goes on, but the rhythm rests. We can represent the beat with a quarter
note each time we tap our foot.
Twin – kle, Twin – kle, Tap
tap Tap tap
q
q
q
q
Lit –
Tap
q
tle, tap
q
Star
Tap tap
q
q
9. Show Bar Line Card and tell the students that when songs are written using notes, the
notes are grouped into measures. Each measure begins and ends with a bar line.
10. Tell the students that at the beginning of a song, there is a time signature, which tells
the musician how many beats are in each measure.
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11. Explain to the students that the time signature has two numbers, one on top and one
on the bottom. The top number tells us how many beats are in each measure in the
song. A time signature of 2/4 has two beats in each measure. Show the students the
2/4 Time Signature Card and point out the top number. Tell them that this is the number that indicates the number of beats in the measure.
12. Explain to the students that they can tell when a new measure is beginning because
the first beat in the measure is accented, which means that it sounds louder than
the rest of the notes in the measure. The last note in the measure is always a soft
beat. Therefore, in 2/4 time, each measure contains one loud and one soft beat. A
new measure begins whenever they hear the louder beat. In the case of 2/4 time the
repetition is every second beat.
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1
Strong
Beat
2
Weak
Beat
q q
13. Show students the 2/4 Quarter -Note Measure Card, and explain to them that a
quarter note has the value of one beat. (This is conveyed by the bottom number of
the time signature; a four on the bottom of the time signature tells us that the quarter
note is worth one beat). Therefore, in 2/4 time, there must be two quarter notes in
each measure. Remind the students that the first quarter note is the loudest note in
the measure and that the second quarter note is the quietest in the measure.
14. Play Track 9 Counting Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, in 2/4 Time. Have half the students
in the class sing the song while clapping the Rhythm (See Rhythm Card 1) and the
other half of the class tap and count along with the beat (See Beat Card 1). (Switch and
repeat.) Be sure that the students who are tapping, are accenting the first beat in the
measure when they say one, and that they are tapping softer on beat two.
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USING THE ORAL PROMPTS TO UNDERSTAND RHYTHM
15. Sometimes children find it easier to recognize the value of different notes through
oral prompts. The word that is associated with the quarter note is Ta. Show Rhythm
Card 2 Counting with Oral Prompts, and play Track 10 Clapping in 2/4 Time with Oral
Prompts and have them listen to the oral prompts count.
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16. Replay Track 10 Clapping in 2/4 Time with Oral Prompts and have the students clap
and mimic the track. Be sure that they are accenting the first beat in the measure
when they say Ta , and that they are clapping softer on beat two ta.
17. Have half of the students in the class sing the song while tapping the beat (with their foot
on the floor) and the other half of the class clap the rhythm along with the oral prompts.
(The beat remains steady without any pause; however, the rhythm follows the lyrics.) If
you would like the guidance of a metronome, complete this step using Track 11.
18. Replay Track 7 Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, and have the students repeat step 14, using
other types of body percussion (e.g., snap their fingers, pat their thighs).
ASSESSMENT STRATEGIES:
The important thing is that students identify two beats per measure and that the body
percussion pattern consists of an accent on beat one (Ta) and a weak beat on beat 2
(ta). There should be a discernable pattern with a clear repetition every two beats.
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Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star10 Lyric Sheet
Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder what you are.
Up above the world so high,
Like a diamond in the sky.
Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder what you are!
When the blazing sun is gone,
When there’s nothing he shines upon,
Then you show your little light,
Twinkle, twinkle, through the night.
Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder what you are!
In the dark blue sky so deep
Through my curtains often peep
For you never close your eyes
’Til the morning sun does rise
Twinkle, twinkle, little star
How I wonder what you are
Twinkle, twinkle, little star
How I wonder what you are
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Bar Lines
Bar Line Card
A measure divides the
song into smaller parts.
Each measure begins and
ends with a bar line.
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2
4
2/4 Time Signature Card
The top number tells us how many beats are
in the measure or bar. When the number is 2,
there are two beats in each measure/bar.
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2
4
1
Twin
–
2
kle,
qq
2/4 Quarter Note Measure Card
Time Signature
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2
4
Twin - kle
Rhythm Card 1
Twin - kle,
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2
4
2
Tap
1
Tap
2
Beat Card 1
Tap
qq qq
1
Tap
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2
4
2
Ta
1
ta
2
Rhythm Card 2
1
ta
qq qq
Ta
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