Check out this great site for integrating music into the classroom.
http://www.philtulga.com/resources.html
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Monday, June 13, 2011
Vote in the Music Poll. Do you listen to music for the words or the sound?
Scroll down to the bottom of my blog to vote.
http://musicroomburns.net/2/post/2011/05/project-based-learning-in-elementary-music-class.html
Written by Amy M. Burns
Even though I am currently on maternity leave, I am thinking about the second graders at my school today because they are completing a project-based learning assignment that the second grade teachers, the Chinese teacher, the Spanish teacher, the drama teacher, and I have been collaborating on all school year. Project Based Learning revolves around an essential question that the students answer utilizing a collaborative process of investigation over a period of time. The second graders studied immigration and empathy and their essential question was "What was the experience of an immigrant?" In music class, we studied the life of Maria von Trapp and integrated the immigration and empathy unit into a SMART Board project that made the students think about why the von Trapps immigrated to America and what they would do if they were "walking in the von Trapp's shoes." This project culminates today with a huge Heritage Festival with the students ending the festival by stating some facts they learned about the von Trapps and singing four songs from The Sound of Music. We began this project in the 09-10 school year, but developed it more during this current school year. I was thrilled to collaborate with the teachers to teach this project. When the students were learning about the von Trapps in music class and learning about their trials and tribulations of immigrating to America, I was extremely impressed with their thoughtful insights. Some were: When asked about leaving the country (I typed what they said):
It was a wonderful and extremely insightful project that I look forward to continuing and completing next school year. |
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Johnny Cash & Bob Dylan - Girl from the north country
Modern Day Folk Ballad based on the 17th century
English Popular Ballad "Scarborough Fair"
Spotlight on Music McGraw Hill
American Folk Music
"On his 1963 album The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, there is a song called
"Girl from the North Country." The song has very simple lyrics, in which
the singer asks a traveler to say hello to a girl he once knew, who lives
near a fair that the traveler may be visiting.
That song is remarkably similar to "Scarborough Fair," recorded three
years later and included on Simon and Garfunkel's albumParsley Sage
Rosemary and Thyme. In the song, the traveler is asked to say hello to
a girl, but the singer goes on to make a number of mysterious requests.
The singer wants the girl to make him a cambric shirt, and to find him an
acre of land beside the sea which she must tend with "a sickle of leather."
Paul Simon learned the song from Martin Carthy, an English folk musician,
and Carthy found them in a group of northern English folk songs collected
by Frank Kidson in the late nineteenth century.
Both songs are remarkably similar to a ballad known as "The Elfin Knight."
The earliest published version of it appeared in 1673, in Edinburgh, Scotland.
It is undoubtedly much older, and belongs to the medieval tradition of games
and rhymes in which the devil sets nine riddles, or tasks. Twelve versions of the
song were collected by Francis J. Child, and included in The English and Scottish
Popular Ballads, published between 1892 and 1894. In most of these,
an elf sets a maiden a number of impossible tasks, including sewing a shirt
without seams and planting corn on the barren sand beside the sea.
One Scottish example, which Child found in an 1810 book of nursery rhymes,
has the refrain "Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme."
Another Scottish example asks the traveler,
"Did ye ever travel twixt Berwick and Lyne?"
Most were collected in northern England and Scotland,
but one was collected in New York, by way of Massachusetts.
The traveler in this version is traveling to Cape Ann, on the Massachusetts coast.
We can say that this version is an authentic American folk song.
Folk music, as Woody Guthrie said, is ".music of the people, by the people,
and for the people." It is the musical expression of a community at work and at play,
in celebration and in mourning, in love and out of love, at war and at peace.
The community can be a household, a farm, a village, or it can be a whole nation.
Folk songs are not composed music: they have evolved, often over many generations,
out of the lives of men and women. They continue to evolve as they are passed on
from generation to generation, and from musician to musician. This process is known
as oral transmission."
http://spotlightonmusic.macmillanmh.com/music/teachers/articles/folk-and-traditional-styles/anglo-american-folk-music
Friday, June 3, 2011
Beardyman on Conan
Funny how we try to make our voices sound like instruments while
we always try to play our instruments to sound like voices.
we always try to play our instruments to sound like voices.
Salman Khan talk at TED 2011 (from ted.com)
Fantastic way of learning check out resources at
www.khanacademy.org
Thursday, June 2, 2011
Wilson's Inaugural Post
Welcome to my all things creative music blog. I love interesting ways of looking at things and making correlations with subjects that normally would not be associated with each other. Here you will find videos of music performances, tutorials, and editorials about the ever changing world of music. If you have questions about music, feel free to post. I will do my best to find the best possible answer available to me and the world wide web.
"The number of meanings for a song is only limited by the number of ears that hear it."
- Kyle Ray Wilson
"The number of meanings for a song is only limited by the number of ears that hear it."
- Kyle Ray Wilson
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