More Than Just Rhythm and Melody: Playing with Musical Form, Texture and Tone Color

More Than Just Rhythm and Melody:

Playing with Musical Form, Texture and Tone Color

John CrandallGreater Cincinnati AOSA Chapter

February 5, 2011

Somebody’s Waiting

As I looked into your eyes I beheld a glad surprise, that there’s somebody waiting for me.

There is somebody waiting (3x)…for me.Now choose two and leave the others (3x)

… for me.Swing the one, and leave the other (3x)…

for me.

Copycat Game

A B A B

Pease Porridge HotPease porridge hot, Pease porridge cold,Pease porridge in the potNine days old

Some like it hot,Some like it cold,Some like it in the potNine days old.

Pease Porridge Hot

Jack Be Nimble

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Jack jump over the

Jack be quick,

candlestick.

Jack be nimble,

Names: HR:

Jack be nimble, Jack be quick,

Jack jump over the

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Jack be quick,

candlestick.

Jack be nimble,

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Jack jump over the

Jack be quick,

candlestick.

Jack be nimble,

AGE

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Jack jump over the

Jack be quick,

candlestick.

Jack be nimble,

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Jack be quick,

candlestick.

Jack be nimble,

AGE

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Jack jump over the

Jack be quick,

candlestick.

Jack be nimble,

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candlestick.

Names: HR:

Jack be nimble, Jack be quick,

Jack jump over the

AGE

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candlestick.

Autumn Is Here

Autumn is here,Breezes abound.See all the leaves fall and scatterdown to the ground.

Autumn Is Here

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My Little Pony (Music for Children (Murray Ed.)Vol. I, p. 14, #15)

• Learn melody (first 2 measures up an octave).

• Create movement.

• Create accompaniment (from ostinati in score or use your own).

• Decide on form.

High in the Pine Tree

High in the pine tree, the little turtle dovemade a little nursery to please her little love.“Coo,” said the turtle dove, “coo,” said she;in the long, shady branches of the dark pine

tree.

High in the Pine Tree

Great Big HouseGreat big house in New Orleans forty stories high,Every room that I’ve been in is filled with pumpkin

pie.

Went down to the old mill stream to fetch a pail of water.

Put one arm around my wife, the other round my daughter.

Fare thee well, my darling girl, fare thee well, my daughter,

Fare thee well, my darling girl with the golden slippers on her.