Transcript Music - 5BHwiki2011

Jazz and Blues
Stage 3
 MUS3.1
Sings, plays and moves to a range of
music, individually and in groups,
demonstrating a knowledge of musical
concepts.
 MUS3.2 Improvises, experiments, selects,
combines and orders sound using musical
concepts.
 MUS3.3 Notates and discusses own work and
the work of others.
 MUS3.4 Identifies the use of musical concepts
and symbols in a range of musical styles.
Quality Teaching Dimensions
Element descriptors
Intellectual Quality
Active construction
– listening, participation, composition,
utilising various instruments
Substantive Communication
- ongoing through the unit, evidenced in mind
maps, classroom dialogue and assessment task
Quality Learning Environment
Engagement
- a variety of presentation formats – IWB,
youtube, CD, hands on instruments
Composition and arrangement
Self -direction
Significance –
Prior knowledge
-Pretest, cultural perspectives
Cultural Knowledge
-the birth of these styles in historical and
Rhythm
Key
Texture
Melody
Timbre
Music
Harmony
Pitch
Beat and
meter
Dynamics
Jazz
This style of music was created in New York, after
World War 1 in the 1920s.
Style – triplets behind the beat, characterised by
improvisation, syncopation, steady tempo
*Swing –bigger bands, more organised and structured.
*Bebop – smaller ensembles and less organised music,
more solos,
Jam session – the equivalent of religion, the
supernatural moment when art was created.
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Famous performers: Dizzy Gillespie, Sarah Vaughn,
Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker, Ella Fitzgerald, Nina
Simone
 Blues
History – created in the southern states of the
USA at the beginning of the 20th century.
Roots were from African American slave songs
(Underground Railroad codes)
Style – acoustic, electrical, Ragtime – led the
way for Rock ‘n’ Roll,
Famous performers: BB King, Muddy Waters,
Nat King Cole, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis
Armstrong, Ma Rainey
 Pretest
– mind map elements of music, jazz
and blues.
 Write
up the elements of music diagram.
 What
is Jazz?
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Listen – what can you hear?
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Summertime, Whatever Lola wants, Feeling Good
Write notes – what elements of music are
emphasized?
Notes on what makes jazz.
 What
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Listen – what can you hear?
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is Blues?
Memphis Blues, Crazy Blues, Think
Boogie Woogie
Write notes – what elements of music are
emphasized?
Notes on what makes blues
 Analyse
– create a Venn diagram to compare
and contrast these two styles of music.
 Perform
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– Jazz
It don’t mean a thing
CD Sing
Remix
 Lyrics
 Beat
and rhythm
 Ostinato
 Perform
– Blues
 Lyrics
 Beat
and rhythm
 Ostinato
 NB
Votes
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3
2
1
0
bring instruments for next lesson
 12
bar blues – repeated, 3 x 4 bar segments
(1st, 4th, 5th)
 Listen – impro, guitar instructions
 Theory – matching melody and harmony,
restricting tempo, format AABA, 4 chords,
varied rhythm
 Blues scale – flattened fifth, piano
 Experiment – piano, keys, own instruments
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGAax-
4wH0g&feature=related Boogie Woogie
tutorial
 Improvisation
 Combing
melody and harmony – what chords
go with what scales
 Noodling – experimenting, improvise and play
around until you find something you like!
 AABA (8 measures in each, As have slight
variation and the B serves as a bridge)
 Audacity
/ Finale notepad /garage band /
 Post
Test - mind map elements of music, jazz
and blues.
 Observation of performance – ability to
move, sing, and note elements and concepts
of music.
 Explain to a friend / family member how to
play and improvise around the 12 bar blues
 Compose a piece –record and upload to
wikispace!
 From
Students:
 From Teacher:
 From Peers:
 Use
windows photo story or photo peach to
create a piece with jazz related pictures and
jazz music in the background.
 Learn and play a jazz piece – perhaps record
it and load it onto the wikispace.
 Find a blues song that was used for the
Underground Railroad in the American civil
war – can you decode it and explain to
another?
http://musiced.about.com/od/beginnerstheory/
a/musicelements.htm [4/10/11]
 http://www.enotes.com/jazz/historicalbackground [4/10/11]
 http://www.scaruffi.com/history/jazz8.html
 http://www.kennedycenter.org/programs/jazz/ambassadors/Lesson1.
html
 http://web.li.gatech.edu/~rdrury/700/write/sp
2_01/jazz/tempforjazz.htm
 http://www.digitaldreamdoor.com/pages/best_b
luesong.html
 http://www.pbs.org/theblues/classroom/lessons
.html
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