Spooky Sounds Music for Halloween Learning intentions By
Spooky Sounds Music for Hallowe’en
Learning intentions By the end of the lesson… Learners will be able to answer exam style questions articulately, using musical vocabulary Demonstrate an understanding of programme music through an analysis of Dance Macabre Understand play a triplet rhythm
What is programme music? Programme music � Programme music is descriptive, suggesting visual images or 'telling a story’. � Instrumental music, free of a programme, exists purely for its own sake and is known as absolute music. �
Who is Saints-Saens? Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns was born in Paris, France in 1835. He began piano lessons at the age of two. He almost immediately began to write music with his first composition for piano dated March 22, 1839. In 1886 Saint-Saëns premired one of his most loved works - Le Carnaval des Animaux (The Carnival of the Animals). https: //youtu. be/poz 9 n. ZCFmb 0
Dance Macabre Saint-Saëns's Danse macabre, Op. 40, is based on the French legend that Death packs a fiddle and comes to play at midnight on Halloween, causing the skeletons in the cemetery to crawl out of the ground for their annual graveyard dance party.
The music begins with a warning from the violins, a call to attention that things are going to get weird. And then suddenly the entire ensemble begins to flood in. It's an evocative piece that's chilling without being directly damaging, and it's one of those great gateway classical pieces for kids, which is perhaps why PBS made this cartoon in the '80 s. https: //youtu. be/9 CHqhs. MP 80 E
Listen again… � 1. The piece starts with the church clock chiming midnight. Which instrument plays the chimes? a) clarinet b) trumpet c) harp � Next, the devil creeps into the graveyard. Which string instruments are used for this creeping? What is special about the way it is played? � The ghosts and skeletons begin to appear as a mysterious tune is played. Which woodwind instrument plays this tune?
Listen again… � Which tuned percussion instrument is used to sound like skeleton bones rattling? � During the piece does the music a) stay quiet b) stay loud � Where is the loudest music heard? a) beginning b) middle c) get louder and quieter c) end
Listen again… � It is morning and the loud instruments suddenly stop as the cock crow is heard. Which instrument plays the cock crow? a) flute b) oboe c) trumpet � All the ghosts and skeletons have returned to their graves. The devil plays a final tune on his violin. Is this tune a) fast? b) medium? c) slow?
Addams family Chopstick drumming
What is a triplet?
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