2019/20 SEASON WICKED TINKERS
LESSON 3: CELTIC MUSIC LESSON AT A GLANCE LESSON OBJECTIVE: Students will learn about key characteristics in Celtic music including instruments and unique rhythms. DURATION: 50 minutes or one class period MATERIALS: Handout 7: Musical Multiple Choice, Handout 8: Celtic Instruments STANDARDS: ELA Speaking and Listening Grade Seven: SL 7.1 Students will engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 7 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own. CA VAPA Music Grade Seven: 3.4 Perform music from diverse genres and cultures. CA VAPA Music Grade Seven: 3.5 Identify instruments from a variety of cultures visually and aurally. CONCEPTS/VOCABULARY: Bagpipes: Wind instrument with two or more single or double-reed pipes. Bronze Age Irish Horn: Ancient instrument from Ireland made of bronze and sounds like an Australian didgeridoo. Compound Time: Musical rhythm or meter in which each beat in a bar is subdivided into three smaller units. Drone: A pipe of the bagpipe that is tuned to produce a single continuous tone. Didgeridoo: An Australian Aboriginal wind instrument in the form of a long wooden tube, traditionally made from a hollow branch, which is blown to produce a deep, resonant sound. Jig: A form of lively Irish folk dance tune in compound signature or 6/8. Lamellophone: Family of musical instruments whose sound is generated by plucking flexible tuned tongues of metal, wood, cane, or other material attached at one end to a small board or resonator and plucked with the thumbs or fingers or activated mechanically. Percussion: Musical instruments played by striking with the hand or with a handheld or pedal-operated stick or beater, or by shaking, including drums, cymbals, xylophones, gongs, bells, and rattles. Pitch: The quality of a sound governed by the rate of vibrations producing it; the degree of highness or lowness of a tone. Reel: The most common type of dance tune played in Irish traditional music that is in a simple time. Rhythm: Combination of long and short, even or uneven sounds that convey a sense of movement in time. Scottish Trump: A lamellophone instrument played by the teeth and plucking of the springy piece in the middle. Simple Time: Musical rhythm or meter in which the beat of a piece of music can be broken down into two part rhythms. Common examples of simple time signatures are 4/4, 3/4, 2/4, 3/8, and 2/2. GUIDING QUESTIONS: What are the distinguishing qualities of Celtic music? THE BROAD STAGE AT THE SANTA MONICA COLLEGE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER THEBROADSTAGE.ORG/EDUCATION 1310 11TH ST., SANTA MONICA, CA 90401 / 310.434.3560
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