The grade twelve music curriculum encourages teachers to focus on the creative process to introduce improved music. In the creative process, teachers want to make a conscious effort to include the elements of music, techniques, and technologies for the students to learn and use in future works. Not just that, but teachers can include teaching theory and musical forms to help students better understand the parts of composition too!
To help students warm up, we start the students to warm up with a Simple “Row, Row, Row your boat”, students will first sing the whole song together, students will sing through it altogether 4 times. Then, the teacher will split the room in half and one group will start singing 4 beats later than the other group to create a cannon/round. Students will be split into 4 groups, each group will be designated to add a rhythm or harmony established by the teacher. Students will get their rhythms and they will do it all at the same time with the main melody being kept by the 4th group. Students will then have the option to add:
This is getting students to know and understand what they were doing with that song and how the teacher was able to create such a cannon/round. The teacher will go through the different possible ways to create a round/ cannon and how to give it texture using the methods listed above. These ideas will be talked more about after the short activity for reinforcement to better their understanding. Then, the students can try and create their own cannon with a partner. They can have creative freedom in terms of what type of song they want to modify and there is no restriction of what they must do specifically. Their cannon/ round should last around 1-2 minutes and each person the groups should be doing something different, not the same actions or melodies. Some specific items that students will need to include:
Students will be given the rest of the period to work on this cannon/round. They will present their rounds at the beginning of next class, so that they have time to practice the rhythms, body percussion and harmonies that they decide to use. Some resources to use: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHSi6gRDQo0&ab_channel=IndependenceSchoolDistrict https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgTReQ676ug&ab_channel=oandoduo https://www.yourtherapysource.com/blog1/2020/05/01/what-is-body-percussion/ https://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/curriculum/secondary/arts1112curr2010.pdf
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