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Table of Contents

My Notes ........................................................................................................................................................................................................ 1

Journal Entries ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 13

Music Staff Paper ............................................................................................................................................................................23

The Orchestra ......................................................................................................................................................................................29

How Can I Talk about Music?..............................................................................................................................................30

Making It Better ..................................................................................................................................................................................31

Some of the Ways to Develop a Melody ..................................................................................................................33

Recorder Notes .................................................................................................................................................................................34

Recorder Songs ................................................................................................................................................................................35

My Musical Dictionary ..................................................................................................................................................................37

Music I Listen to ................................................................................................................................................................................41

My Visits to the New York Philharmonic ....................................................................................................................42

Write a Letter ........................................................................................................................................................................................43

Unit 1: Musical Inspiration .......................................................................................................................................................44

Unit 2: Harmony .................................................................................................................................................................................45

Unit 3: Musical Form .....................................................................................................................................................................48

Unit 4: Orchestration ....................................................................................................................................................................49

Unit 5: Level Review and Final Project Preparation ......................................................................................50

Philharmonic Schools 1

My Notes

Philharmonic Schools2

My Notes

3Philharmonic Schools

My Notes

4 Philharmonic Schools

My Notes


My Notes

Journal Entry



The Orchestra

Clarinets

French Horns

Bassoons

Oboes

FlutesPiccolo

First Violins

Cellos

Percussion

Timpani

Basses

Trumpets

Trombones

Violas

Tuba

Harp

Second Violins

Conductor

Percussion Strings Brass Woodwinds


How Can I Talk about Music?“When I hear it makes me feel .”

“I think of when the music goes .”

“One part sounds , but another sounds .”

“I would describe the whole piece as , because .”

“I like how the composer .”

“I think the composer is trying to .”

“At first I thought when I heard , but then…”

Sing back: “When the music goes …”

Sequence: “First I hear , then I hear , and

finally .”

Make a connection: “This reminds me of , because I hear

.”

When the music is it is like

(e.g., the pattern we used in our writing).

Other notes:


Making It Better

Our focus:

Our focus:

What I did well:

What I can do better: What WE can do better:

What WE did well:

What I did well:


What WE did well:


Making It Better

Our focus:

Our focus:

What I did well:


What WE did well:

What I did well:


What WE did well:


Use repetition: BCB BCB AGA

AAGGAA

Some Ways to Develop a Melody

Backwards: GABCB

Make a sequence: Start a note higher: CDCBA

Or Lower: ABAGE

Make some notes longer B CB AG

(or shorter):

Add notes: BADCBAG

Add rests: B CB A G

BCBAG could turn into:


Recorder Notes

D

C

B

A

G

F

E

D

high

low

Philharmonic Schools

Recorder Songs

35

Hot Cross Buns

B A G B A G G G G G A A A A B A G

44

Ode to Joy

4

4

Beethoven

Joy — ful, joy — ful, lift your voi — ces, high for all to hear our song

Hearts and hands cross sea and land in peace and love for ev’ — ry one.

B B C D D C B A G G A B B A A

B B C D D C B A G G A B A G G

Rain, Rain, Go Away

C A C C A C C A D C C A


Recorder Songs

Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star

G G D D E E D C C B B A A G

G G D D E E D C C B B A A G

D D C C B B A D D C C B B A

Traditional

Twin – kle, twin – kle, lit — tle star, How I won — der what you are.

Twin – kle, twin – kle, lit — tle star, How I won — der what you are.

Up a — bove the world so high, Like a dia — mond in the sky,

Theme from Fanfare for the Common Man

)

) )

CoplandVery deliberately

D G D G D C E C G D

Promenade from Pictures at an Exhibition Mussorgsky

45 46

E D G A D B A D B G A E D


MyMusicalDictionary

DefinitionWord

Accent

Beat

Cadenza

Conduct

Conductor

Compose

Composer

Crescendo

Diminuendo

Dissonance

Dynamics

Fanfare

Form

Harmony

Improvisation

Inspiration

Jazz


DefinitionWord

Legato

Melody

Minuet

Motive

Musical Layering

Orchestra

Orchestration

Pitch

Pizzicato

Rhapsody

Rhythm

Rondo Form

Staccato

Syncopation

Tempo

Ternary Form

Timbre

Theme

Trill

Variation


Word Definition

MyMusicalDictionary


Word Definition


Composer PerformersPiece

You can keep a list of all the music that you listen to...

MusicI Listen to


My Visits to the New York PhilharmonicToday we visited the New York Philharmonic.

Here is what we did:

Here is what I learned:

Here is something I would like to know more about:

Write about or draw something that you really remember about your visit:


Dear ,

Would You Like to Write a Letter to a Musician of the New York Philharmonic?


Unit 1 Musical Inspiration

What might you see in this location?

What kinds of sounds or music might you hear?

What activities are taking place?

What is the mood of the place?













M I D H U DSON B R I DG E

B EAR MOU NTAI N

TH E PALISADES

TH E STATU E OF LI B E RTY

Dan

iel C

ase

Wik

imed

ia C

omm

ons

Wik

imed

ia C

omm

ons

Julia

n C

olto

n


Unit 2 Harmony

My “strolling through the subway” melody:

My “waiting” or “sitting” harmony (to be played with my “strolling” melody):

My “hurried” or “fast” harmony (to be played with my “strolling” melody):

low

low

D

C

B

A

G

F

E

D

C


Unit 2 Harmony

Hot Cross Buns


44

Hot Cross Buns (with sustained harmonies)

44

Melody

Harmony

Melody

Harmony


D

A


E

44

44

44

B


Unit 2 Harmony

Hot Cross Buns (with harmonies moving together)


D C B D C B B B B B C C C C D C B


G F E G F E E E E E F F F F G F E

44

44

44

44

A

B

Melody

Harmony

Melody

Harmony

4

Hot Cross Buns (with a faster harmony part)


D E D E D E D E D E D E D E D E D E D E D E D E D E D E D E D E

4

44

Melody

Harmony


Unit 3 Musical Form

Listening Deeper...

Pictures at an Exhibition by Modest Mussorgsky

As you listen for form in these movements, write a musical description of the A and B sections:

The Hut on Chicken Feet

A:

B:

A:

Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks

A:

B:

A:

What makes the sections different? How does the composer create a musical contrast?

Examples of Musical Form:

= Form

= Form

Create your own A-B-A and Rondos with shapes, letters, words, and numbers:


Unit 4 Orchestration

Create your own orchestration to Mussorgsky’s Promenade melody!

Which instrument should play the melody? Which percussion instruments should accompany the melody? Mark the boxes with × to know when to play.

Listening Deeper...

Listen to one of Mussorgsky’s piano movements from Pictures at an Exhibition, and compare them to Ravel’s orchestrations using a Venn Diagram.

Movement Title:

Mussorgsky’s piano version

Ravel’s orchestra

Promenade from Pictures at an Exhibition Mussorgsky

45 46 E D G A D B A D B G A E D

Instrument:

Low E Low D G A D B A D B G A E D

Instrument:

Instrument:


Unit 5 Level Review and Final Project Preparation

Which were your favorites pieces we studied this year? Why?

Which activities did we do that were particularly fun? Why?

What are the important things that you learned about music this year?

What other Philharmonic moments this year really stick out in your memory?

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