In grade 10, students are going through the critical analysis process and practicing their ability to responding, analysing, and interpreting music. They will be demonstrating their ability to connect music to society, how traditional, commercial and art music represent the societies they are from and its impact on those cultures. Students will immerse themselves into cultures and their music, learning about the music’s connection to the culture. The lesson will give students a chance to learn about different cultures and the types of music that are common to each. Students will have the opportunity to research about these cultures to further understand the music and its meaning. To start, students are going to begin by watching a performance of traditional Korean vocal music called Pansori. The word Pansori originates from the Korean words pan, meaning “a place where many people gather”, and sori meaning “song” Pansori is a genre of musical storytelling in Korea that started in the 17th century, in south-west Korea. is usually performed by a vocalist, accompanied by a drummer. This genre has expressive singing, stylized speech, and can last for hours on end. It can be sung by a male or female singers and accompanied by a single barrel drum. Here is a recording of the most traditional version of Pansori: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UgNOvHx4_c&ab_channel=%EA%B5%AD%EB%A6%BD%EA%B5%AD%EC%95%85%EC%9B%90%5BNationalGugakCenter%5D
The traditional Pansori is only with the barrel drum and singer. The way the singer is singing, it sounds like talking, but with very intricate moving between the notes in a fast manner. We want the students to identify characteristics of the singing from the video. As we dissect the video, we want to get the students’ attention to the idea of how appropriate it is for us as students from another country to sing these styles of music without any background information. Pose the thought of if you were to assign this piece of music as a piece to learn, would it be appropriate for us? Why or why not. From this, we are getting students to understand the implications of singing pieces without the proper knowledge regarding the culture. We will get the students to think about the different ways we can better understand a piece of music that has a cultural context to it, whether it may be language or meaning. Answers that they could include could be something like inviting guest speakers to teach us. An important idea to instill in the students is that it is not bad to sing pieces of music in a different language or from a different culture, we need to be aware and give credit to those cultures. That we need to promote this idea of diversity and inclusion of different musics and their cultures. To elaborate more on Pansori, we will demonstrate the infinite possibilities of incorporating cultural music into our more modern music genres. They will listen to a part of a performance by a Pansori singer Song Sohee, who incorporates pop backing tracks that gives Pansori a more modern take to it while still maintaining the traditional singing style. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KKIo4-6jh8&ab_channel=%EB%94%A9%EA%B3%A0%EB%AE%A4%EC%A7%81%2Fdingomusic
After listening to the video, we will introduce the activity they will need to do. In groups of 2-3, students will have the opportunity to pick a traditional singing style from any culture. From this, they will research about the singing style and learn about the history and characteristics that are present in the singing style that they chose. They will have to include the links and source the information to prove that it is from a legit source. Following the research, each group will find an example of this singing style being incorporated into modern music like the example given. Once they have found all this, students will compile this into a presentation to show the class. They will be given access to chrome books and devices if needed. During the last 15 minutes, the groups will present their findings and their thoughts on the style of singing that they have chosen. References/ Resources: https://ich.unesco.org/en/RL/pansori-epic-chant-00070#:~:text=Pansori%20is%20a%20genre%20of,both%20elite%20and%20folk%20culture. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KKIo4-6jh8&ab_channel=%EB%94%A9%EA%B3%A0%EB%AE%A4%EC%A7%81%2Fdingomusic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UgNOvHx4_c&ab_channel=%EA%B5%AD%EB%A6%BD%EA%B5%AD%EC%95%85%EC%9B%90%5BNationalGugakCenter%5D https://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/curriculum/secondary/arts910curr2010.pdf
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