Music and the Curriculum How music can benefit learning in other subject areas Notes/handouts at: Jack Stanfill some.

Music and the Curriculum

How music can benefit learning in other subject areas

Notes/handouts at:

http://imet.csus.edu/imet2/stanfillj/

Jack Stanfill

some practical applications

Music is…

used to Enhance learning.

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a Modality for learning.

a Subject for learning.

experiential, participatory, body, meaningful

emotions/feeling, affective, an intelligence, perception

skills, conceptual, discipline, performance

Music in the Curriculum

Enhancement

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Modality Subject

classroom teacher music teacher

Also see “Popular Literature” and “Making Connections” at http://imet.csuc.edu/imet2/stanfillj/

Body-brain Compatible Learning

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EMOTION

EXPERIENCE

MEANINGFUL

Movement

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Movement

Movement

MovementMovementMovement

RhythmRhythm Rhythm

Anything done with rhythm will be successful.

Steady beat is the glue that holds music together.

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The melody may be the line of music,

but its soul is in its pulse.

The adult resting heart rate is about 60 beats per minute.

7 Pulse

TEMPO

METRONOME MARKING

MANHATTAN TRANSFER

Twilight Zone

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Children need to feel the beatbefore they speak to it.

Step to this! Irish Washerwoman

The King is Coming!

Montezuma, Cusco, from Apurimac II

Your Move! “One More Go ‘Round”, James Taylor from New Moon Shine

“Take Five”

5/4

DAVE BRUBECK

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Alliteration Exercise

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1. Form small groups. ( 1 min.)

2. Create or recall an alliterative poem. ( 2 min.)

3. Rhythmically develop your poem. ( 3 min.)

4. Perform for the class.

choice ownership intrinsic motivation

See “Peter Piper” and “Upper Level Name Game” at http://imet.csus.edu/imet2/stanfillj/

Factors for meaningful learning

EMOTIONSEMOTIONS

CONTEXTCONTEXT

PATTERN-MAKINGPATTERN-MAKING

RELEVANCERELEVANCE

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Purposely engage emotions through movement.

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Music is…

used to Enhance learning.

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a Modality for learning.

a Subject for learning.

experiential, participatory, body, meaningful

emotions/feeling, affective, an intelligence, perception

skills, conceptual, discipline, performance

Patterns

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Rhythm Patterns

Word Rhythm (rhythm of the words)

Chant Rap

Before there was rap, there was chant.

Chant: Speech patterns set to a steady beat.

Repeated speech patterns are called ostinato and provide an underpinning of texture to the text.

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Rhyme: Speaking in rhythm.

Rap: Stylistic speaking in rhythm to a steady beat.

See “Chant” at http://imet.csus.edu/imet2/stanfillj/

CUE SHEET FOR RHYTHMIC NOTATION

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In music, speech rhythm translates into note values.

Generally, duration is a function of vowels and articulation is a function of consonances.

(handout)

See “Rhythm Cue Sheet” at http://imet.csus.edu/imet2/stanfill

Call and Response

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Food Pyramid Chant19

Language Arts

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RapsPoems

See “Haiku” and “Riddles” at http://imet.csus.edu/imet2/stanfillj/

Choral Reading

This requires group reading of text aloud to music.

“We Didn't Start the Fire”

"March" from the Nutcracker

Eine Kleine Nachtmusik

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See “Choral Reading Group” at http://imet.csus.edu/imet2/stanfillj/

What we sing is a melody.

Research shows that singing helps imbed subject memory.

Teachers have been using songs to help teach subject matter for years.

Melody

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See “Melody” at http://imet.csus.edu/imet2/stanfillj/

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To the Tune of…

Long Vowel Sounds24

S = so M = mi

S

M

S

M

S

A - E - I - O - U ____ , Sing the vow – els through .

Listening COLLECTION

Story music

The Planets Tone poem

The Moldau

Program music

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Beauty and the Beast

See “Listening Collection” at http://imet.csus.edu/imet2/stanfillj/

23”

15”

A Lincoln Portrait Tone poem16”

Other Program/Tone Poem Music

“Pacific 231”, Honneger “Grand Canyon Suite”“Mississippi Suite”“Death Valley Suite”

Grofe“In the Steppes of Central Asia”, Borodin

“Suite from Peer Gynt”, Grieg

“Pictures at an Exhibition”, Mussorgsky

“Prelude a l’apres-midi d’un faune” and “La Mer”, Debussy“The Sorcerer’s Apprentice”, Dukas“An American in Paris”, Gershwin

“Romeo and Juliet”, Tchaikovsky

See “Program Music List” http://imet.csus.edu/imet2/stanfillj/

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Music in the Day27

See “Music in the Day” at http://imet.csus.edu/imet2/stanfillj/

Release from tension

Relaxation

Energize

Recreation

Transition

Music Connections

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http://imet.csus.edu/imet2/stanfillj/

Correlation to Other Subjects

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music content

Language arts

Math

Social studies

Science

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Subject Correlations

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Music in…

Language Arts

Social Studies

Math

Science

Physical Education

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Music and Language Arts Group

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Listen to a Song and…

Music and Language Arts Activities

Creating a Jazz Story with Your Class

Jingle Bells Mad Libs

Deck the Halls

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Correlation Examples

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“Weevily Wheat”

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“Share the Music”, McGraw-Hill, 1996

“The Music Connection”, Silver Burdett, 1996

Science of Sound

Found Sounds

Instrument Making

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This presentation has been less about advocacy for music in the schools and more about the accessibility of music in your teaching world.

Music is an expression within each of us. It’s ability to connect with various aspects of our lives has no boundary.

Get kids singing as early as possible and music will be their friend for the rest of their lives.

(see “Choosing Music to Soothe…” on the web site)

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Please visit the Jack Stanfill web site at

http://imet.csus.edu/imet2/stanfillj/

e mail [email protected]