Musical Intelligence Prezo Patti

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Warming up to Singing Brought to you by Patti Rodriguez

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Warming up to Singing

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Students and teachers are often shy about singing.

• the goal is not to turn students into singers• enliven the learning process• People also learn to sing by SINGING

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Teachers can increase singing accuracy by…

• Establishing the starting pitch of a song by singing or by playing it

• Meter & flow of song can be established by counting– “1,2, rea-dy sing” for a song in 2 or 4– “1 rea-dy sing” for song in 3

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Encourage students to…• sing with energy rather than to sing loudly• blend with the voices of their classmates

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Alleviate concerns about the sound of one’s voice by:

• Chanting nonsense sounds• Over time teachers can progress

from chanting, to exaggerating the words into a “heightened speech”, and then to singing.

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Warmup ExercisesStretching/Breathing Exercise

Vocal Exercise

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Choral Reading

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What is Choral Reading?

– Finding short poems, literary passages, or famous quotations that require vocal variations in rhythm, pitch, emotion, or dialect

– Encourages students to use their voices in new ways while adding fluency, confidence, and expression in reading aloud

– Examples:• Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” or “The Bells”• Use original writing

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What’s THE WHOLE POINT in using nonsense sounds or choral reading?

• Acquaint students with using their voices with:– greater expression– vocal range– skill

• Gets students ready for the joy of singing with confidence

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Musical Notation

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Unless students take formal music courses, they rarely learn to read musical notation.

• Abstract musical symbol system might be an unfamiliar foreign language throughout their lives because of lack of exposure

• Students can create their own symbol systems to better grasp musical notation

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SOME WAYS TO TEACH NOTATION

– Ask students to listen to a piece of music & devise their own symbols to represent what they hear

– Number the keys on a scale of a piano from 1 to 8 & help students play song

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Introducing the Concept of Musical Notation

• INDIVIDUAL NOTES ON THE STAFF– Do, Re, Mi, Fa, So, La, Ti, Do (solfege)– C,D,E,F,G,A,B,C

Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti Do

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Teaching Solfege

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DYNAMICS & CONDUCTING ACTIVITY (just on LA)

– Cut off (hand gesture)– Hold note (hand out)– Go louder (hand goes up)– Go softer (hand goes down)– Blending..Sing Triad Chord

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Creating Curriculum SongsBrought to you by

Patti Rodriguez

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• Recorded songs are not available so, CREATE your own songs for your curriculum or content area.

• Little musical talent is required to begin creating original songs by writing words to a simple, well-known melody.

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Song about the water cycle(to the tune of Row, Row, Row Your Boat)

Drip, drip, drip from the skyInto a little stream,Down the mountains, through the plains,And out into the sea. Up, up, up it goesUp into the skyOver the mountains it blows again,Then watch the snowflakes fly.

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JUMP-STARTING CREATIVITY WITH MUSIC

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When students are asked to write a story or poem, some complain they don’t know where or how to begin– Music can serve as a source of

inspiration– Music can stimulate images and

feelings and igniting storylines to pursue

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• You can ask students to pretend they are film producers and that they are to create a storyline using music only.

• Show them examples like, Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf & Disney’s Fantasia

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Thank you for listening!