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Movement of the Animals

Classroom Resource Information

Title:

Movement of the Animals

URL:

http://www.keepingscore.org/sites/default/files/lessonplans/KSEd_Movement_of_the_Animals_Swenson.pdf

Content Source:

Other
San Francisco Symphony

Type:

Lesson/Unit Plan

Overview:

Students will analyze Carnival of the Animals by Camille Saint-Saëns. They will identify the animal portrayed by the tempo, dynamics, and instruments. They will choose an animal and compose a piece of music that describes the way the animal moves.

Content Standard(s):

Arts Education ARTS (2017) Grade: 3 Music: General	2) Generate musical ideas (such as rhythms and melodies) within a given tonality and/or meter. Example: Perform rhythmic accompaniments using pitched instruments or body percussion. Unpacked Content Artistic Process: Creating Anchor Standards: Anchor Standard 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work. Process Components: Imagine Essential Questions: EU: The creative ideas, concepts, and feelings that influence musicians' work emerge from a variety of sources. EQ: How do musicians generate creative ideas? Concepts & Vocabulary: Rhythm Bar lines Measures Melody Pitch set: Low So, Low La, High Do Treble clef reading (Mi, Re, Do) Middle C to high G Ledger lines Harmony Partner songs Rounds Ostinati Form Theme and variations Coda D.S. al coda Repeat sign Fermata Expression Phrase/ phrasing Pianissimo (pp), fortissimo (ff) Other Age-appropriate audience and performer etiquette Orchestral instruments: 4 families Age-appropriate pitch matching (Bb3 - Eb5) Skill Examples: Performing Play a variety of classroom instruments with proper technique. Use the head voice to produce a light, clear sound employing breath support and maintaining appropriate posture. Creating Use pitch and rhythm to improvise vocal, instrumental, and/or movement ideas within a context (such as question and answer phrases or simple accompaniment/ostinato). Reading/ Writing Use iconic or standard notation and/or recording technology to sequence and document personal musical ideas. Responding/ Evaluating Demonstrate a final version of personal musical ideas using created vocal, instrumental, or movement pieces through performance. Develop criteria to critique and refine selected musical examples.
Arts Education ARTS (2017) Grade: 3 Music: General	17) Demonstrate and describe how a response to music can be informed by its structure, the use of the elements of music, and context. Unpacked Content Artistic Process: Responding Anchor Standards: Anchor Standard 8: Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work. Process Components: Analyze Essential Questions: EU: Response to music is informed by analyzing context (social, cultural, and historical) and how creators and performers manipulate the elements of music. EQ: How does understanding the structure and context of music inform a response? Concepts & Vocabulary: Rhythm Bar lines Measures Melody Pitch set: Low So, Low La, High Do Treble clef reading (Mi, Re, Do) Middle C to high G Ledger lines Harmony Partner songs Rounds Ostinati Form Theme and variations Coda D.S. al coda Repeat sign Fermata Expression Phrase/ phrasing Pianissimo (pp), fortissimo (ff) Other Age-appropriate audience and performer etiquette Orchestral instruments: 4 families Age-appropriate pitch matching (Bb3 - Eb5) Skill Examples: Performing Using movement, manipulatives, or visual representation, demonstrate and describe how specific music concepts are used to support a specific purpose in music (such as different sections, selected orchestral, band, folk, or ethnic instruments). Creating Express melodic contour through movement. Reading/ Writing When analyzing selected music, read and perform rhythmic patterns and/or melodic phrases with voice, body percussion, and/or instruments, using iconic or standard notation. Develop criteria and use them to critique their own performances and the performances of others. Responding/ Evaluating Identify and respond to simple music forms (e.g., AB, ABA). Identify elements of music using appropriate vocabulary.
Arts Education ARTS (2017) Grade: 4 Music: General	2) Generate musical ideas within related tonalities and meters. Example: Notate simple rhythms and melodies within a specified meter and tonality. Unpacked Content Artistic Process: Creating Anchor Standards: Anchor Standard 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work. Process Components: Imagine Essential Questions: EU: The creative ideas, concepts, and feelings that influence musicians' work emerge from a variety of sources. EQ: How do musicians generate creative ideas? Concepts & Vocabulary: Rhythm Conducting patterns in Syncopation Melody Pitch set: Do, Re, Mi, Fa, So, Ti Treble clef reading (La, So, Mi, Re, Do) Middle C through High B Create melodic sequences Half-step Whole step Harmony Canons Chord components Chord progression (I, V) Crossover bordun Form Phrasing: antecedent and consequent D.C. al coda Fine Expression pp through ff Other Age-appropriate audience and performer etiquette Orchestra instruments within the 4 families Age-appropriate pitch matching (A3-E5) Skill Examples: Performing With limited guidance, perform simple chord progressions on pitched instruments. Play a variety of classroom instruments with proper technique. Use the head voice to produce a light, clear sound employing breath support and maintaining appropriate posture. Creating With limited guidance, improvise or compose a 2-4 measure musical idea, a pentatonic melody, or a rhythm pattern using age-appropriate note values. Create vocal harmony using rounds, ostinati, canons and partner songs. Reading/ Writing Use notation and/or recording technology to document personal musical ideas. Responding/ Evaluating Describe the way sound is produced by various instruments and the human voice. Listen, identify and respond to music of different composers and world cultures.
Arts Education ARTS (2017) Grade: 4 Music: General	18) Demonstrate and explain how expressive qualities, including dynamics and tempo, are used in performers' and personal interpretations to reflect expressive intent. Example: Sing music with expressive qualities and summarize expressive intent. Unpacked Content Artistic Process: Responding Anchor Standards: Anchor Standard 9: Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work. Process Components: Interpret Essential Questions: EU: Through their use of elements and structures of music, creators and performers provide clues to their expressive intent. EQ: How do we discern musical creators' and performers' expressive intent? Concepts & Vocabulary: Rhythm Conducting patterns in Syncopation Melody Pitch set: Do, Re, Mi, Fa, So, Ti Treble clef reading (La, So, Mi, Re, Do) Middle C through High B Create melodic sequences Half-step Whole step Harmony Canons Chord components Chord progression (I, V) Crossover bordun Form Phrasing: antecedent and consequent D.C. al coda Fine Expression pp through ff Other Age-appropriate audience and performer etiquette Orchestra instruments within the 4 families Age-appropriate pitch matching (A3-E5) Skill Examples: Performing Demonstrate and explain how specific music concepts (such as form, timbre, etc.) are used to support a specific purpose in music (such as social and cultural contexts) through various means (such as manipulatives, movement, and/or pictorial representation). Creating Develop criteria and use them to critique their own performances and the performances of others. Reading/ Writing Evaluate musical works and performances, applying established criteria, citing evidence from the elements of music. When analyzing selected music, read and perform rhythmic patterns and/or melodic phrases with voice, body percussion, and/or instruments, using iconic or standard notation. Responding/ Evaluating Demonstrate an understanding of the elements of music applied to a listening example using teacher-given vocabulary (such as different sections of complex forms, teacher-selected orchestral instruments, etc.). Explain how the elements and subject matter of music connect with disciplines outside the arts.
Arts Education ARTS (2017) Grade: 5 Music: General	2) Generate musical ideas within specific related tonalities, meters, and simple chord changes. Example: Create music combining rhythms and melodies, as well as various tonalities and meters. Unpacked Content Artistic Process: Creating Anchor Standards: Anchor Standard 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work. Process Components: Imagine Essential Questions: EU: The creative ideas, concepts, and feelings that influence musicians' work emerge from a variety of sources. EQ: How do musicians generate creative ideas? Concepts & Vocabulary: Rhythm Melody Pitch set: Do-centered diatonic Treble clef reading (choral octavos) Grand staff Bass clef Accidentals Major scale Harmony Part singing/ playing Chord progression (I, IV, V) Arpeggio Descant Level bordun Form Rondo form 12-Bar blues Expression Vibrato Tremolo Reggae Blues Timbre: soprano, alto, tenor, bass Other Age-appropriate audience and performer etiquette Age-appropriate pitch matching (Ab3-F5) Skill Examples: Performing Improvise over standard folk songs using the pitch set: La, So, Mi, Re, and Do. Improvise melodies in a major diatonic scale by singing or using a pitched instrument. Compose melodies and accompaniments to songs, poems, stories, and dramatizations, using AB, ABA, and rondo forms. Perform pre-written musical ideas. Perform harmonic accompaniments using Orff instruments, Boomwhackers, electronic sources, or by any other appropriate harmonic instrument. Notate simple rhythms and melodies within a specified meter and tonality. Creating Create a 12-bar blues song using appropriate chordal structure and lyrics. Explore and identify musical instruments from different historical periods and world cultures. Reading/ Writing Write an original blues song. Identify elements of music including tonality, dynamics, tempo and meter. Identify patterns of whole and half steps in a major scale. Compose 4 or 8 measure pieces using appropriate notation. Responding/ Evaluating Review and refine a composition. Evaluate a performance, using appropriate vocabulary to describe strengths and weaknesses of the performance. Listen to, identify, and respond to music of different composers, historical periods, and world cultures. Identify terms related to form. Recognize and identify longer music forms such as 12-bar blues, sonata form and theme and variations. Identify vocal timbre as soprano, alto, tenor, or bass. Write short self-reflections about his/her composition and the creative process.
Arts Education ARTS (2017) Grade: 5 Music: General	18) Demonstrate and explain how expressive qualities, including dynamics, tempo, and articulation, are used in performers' and personal interpretations to reflect expressive intent. Example: Sing music with expressive qualities and summarize expressive intent. Unpacked Content Artistic Process: Responding Anchor Standards: Anchor Standard 9: Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work. Process Components: Interpret Essential Questions: EU: Through their use of elements and structures of music, creators and performers provide clues to their expressive intent. EQ: How do we discern musical creators' and performers' expressive intent? Concepts & Vocabulary: Rhythm Melody Pitch set: Do-centered diatonic Treble clef reading (choral octavos) Grand staff Bass clef Accidentals Major scale Harmony Part singing/ playing Chord progression (I, IV, V) Arpeggio Descant Level bordun Form Rondo form 12-Bar blues Expression Vibrato Tremolo Reggae Blues Timbre: soprano, alto, tenor, bass Other Age-appropriate audience and performer etiquette Age-appropriate pitch matching (Ab3-F5) Skill Examples: Performing Analyze the formal structure of music that is to be performed. Identify elements of music to be performed for a specific context (for example, dynamic markings that are appropriate for a lullaby). Creating Choose a literary work, such as a poem or story, to generate musical ideas for performance. Reading/ Writing Examine performance music for expressive elements, and use correct notation to indicate placement. Responding/ Evaluating Justify personal preferences for certain musical pieces, performance, composers and musical genres both orally and in writing. Discuss contributions of musical elements to aesthetic qualities in performances of self and others. Consider and articulate the influence of technology on music careers. Develop and apply criteria for critiquing more complex performances of live and recorded music.