#32 MULTICULTURAL MUSIC - Updated 06/16
TOPICS (Just click on the title you want to view)
General Ideas--For AFRICA see #2 --Anarctica--Arabia--Australia--Bali--B'Hai--Cajun--Canada--Caribbean--For China, see #7
For 'Central' America, see South & Central America--Czech Republic--Denmark--Ecuador--Egypt--England--Eskimo--France--Germany
Greece--Hawaii--Holland--Hungary--Iceland--India--Indonesia--Iraq--Ireland--Italy--Japan--Israel (see Jewish Culture)
Jehovah Witness--Jewish Culture--Korea
Kwanzaa--Lebanon--Mexico/Spain--Muslim Culture--New Zealand--Scandinavia [Norway, Sweden & Denmark]--Olympics--Philippines
Puerto Rico--Russia--Scotland--Shakers--South & Central America--Spain--Switzerland--- --Ukraine--World
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GENERAL IDEAS
06/14 "Hello To All the Children In the World" is in Wee Sing Around the World.CATEGORY GAME & have students name a country - you'll probably find out that they get countries, states & continents confused -unless your students are much smarter than mine. :) I learned the Category Game at an Orff workshop years ago - wish I could remember the clinicians. They were from Memphis, I think (not Deanna Stark, though).
Motions are pat clap open open (open=palms facing up, kind of bouncing onbeats 3 & 4) Category game --- the category is --- Countries --- All you have to do --- When we get to you --- Is name a country --- Say the country --- When your hands are open --- I'll go first --- You'll go next
Each line is said during the pat clap part. ----- Tina Morgan
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01/07 WORLD MUSIC SITES www.afropop.org
www.globalrhythm.net
-- Donna Boylan
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06/06 National Geographic has a website dedicated to World Music:
06/06 Check this World Atlas site. There are several maps, photos and collections of information such as bodies of water and flags. You'll find a lot of useful geography tools here for use in your classroom. www.worldatlas.com Martha in Tallahassee
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06/06 The official site: http://www.putumayo.com/ In the past ten years, Putumayo World Music has become known primarily for its upbeat and melodic compilations of great international music characterized by the company's motto: “guaranteed to make you feel good!” -- Patricia Albritton
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10/05 The Continent song that we use is sung to the tune of "Love and Marriage".
North America, South America (clap holding hands in prayer position)
Europe, Asia and Africa. (Place hands on hips)
Don't forget Antarctica, And way down under is Australia!
(Continents Song to the tune of London Bridge)
There are seven continents, continents, continents
There are seven continents and I can name them all:
North and South America, Africa, Asia
Europe and Australia and Antartica
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10/05 Check out "Global Voices in Song" (do a search) -- a set of CD-roms that have native people singing, dancing, doing pronunciation practice, etc. ---www.globalvoicesinsong.com/ Mary Evans
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07/05 LINE DANCES: http://www.recfd.com/folknote.htm country line dances: http://villa.lakes.com/jam/inst.htm
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07/05 MAPS: Blank maps for countries of the world:to print out: http://geography.about.com/library/blank/blxindex.htm/blxlebanon.htm
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07/05 FINDING A SONG at the library: (Note: ask at your library for a listing -usually in a book- of songs in song collections; the songs are listed alphabetically by song indicating the title of the collection it is located , the library would then put a mark next to the collections it owns
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12/13 SONG: E Papa Waiari - This is a song that has a stick routine that goes with it, you can adapt it to fit your kids. Here's an example:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=142cFuz7vMo ---- Jayne Gonzales
DANCE: You could do a Haka - a native Maori war dance which is a chant with actions. "Ka Mate" is a common one. GREAT for your boys! The best way to see an example is at the start of a rugby game. Here's an example:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdMCAV6Yd0Y
DRUMMING: Poi E - the lyrics are probably too tricky, but perhaps you could do it as a drum piece with the music as a backing? "Poi's" are the balls on string that girls swing around.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1-9MNzL6SM
WEBSITE: with NZ folksongs: http://folksong.org.nz
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07/05 DIGIRIDOOS: The center of laminator film rolls is quite a heavy cardboard and I have used them as digiridoos along with Paul Winter's Voices of the Planet. I had about 10 empty rolls and covered the end with a paper towel (hole in the center) and taught the students to buzz as if they were playing a brass instrument. I'm not able to use circular breathing, but I did try to describe it to the students. I'm not sure this would be appropriate for your Spring Concert, but it is an interesting lesson for the classroom. -- Rose Grelis
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07/05 OCTAVO: Here's some treble voices choral arrangements of AustraliaAboriginal and Islander music:
"Three Modern Folk Songs of the Torresstra Islands", arr Frank York. The Torres Straits is a body of water between the northern tip of Australia and Papua New Guinea. these songs are available from
Mark O'Leary Music Publishing, [email protected]
Stephen Leek has also arranged songs from the Torres Strait, called "Island Songs". He has also written lots of Australian songs including "Kumbargung" which uses aboriginal words. try
http://www.printmusic.com.au ---- Michael Roper
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02/03 VIDEO: The kidsongs video has one from around the world with kids singing and in native costumes and background. Only one song a country though. They run about 15.95 I got it from West Music. It is on page 96 of the 2002-2003 catalog. The product number is: MUCA3556 and it is entitled "Roots and Branches: A Legacy of Multicultural Music for Children" by Campbell, McCullough-Brabson. The blurb of info says: Traditional songs and singing games from 23 different cultures of the world for ages 3 - 10. All songs remembered, played and sung by contributors from each culture. Cultural backgrounds, suggestions for use. WEST music's phone is: 1.888.470.3942 or email: [email protected] or online at: www.westmusic.com
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08/02 SONG BOOKS
SINGIN' SMART: I bought these books years ago at a homeschool convention. At this moment, they are being produced on CD.The workbook/casette is $15.00 the workbook/CD is $17.00. You get a cool workbook/songbook and the CD has children singing the songs with percussion, guitar, etc. and also the instrumental only for performances. The workbook has a two page coloring sheet for each song. (I've blown these up to make posters to teach from.) You also get the words and melody line. There are two volumes:
To Order:
SONG BOOK: Singin' Smart (10 Educational Songs Only); Ideas Productions; 1156 E. 100 N. ; Orem, UT 84057; 801-224-5523
For our UN Day, I'll be teaching the following from the series:
"I'd Like to Visit Europe" Vol. 1; "States of the U.S.A." Vol. 1; "South of the Border" Vol. 2; "Africa's a Great Big Place" Vol. 2; "Continents and Seas" Vol. 2
There is also a new song being added for Russia. The music is in the style of the continent.
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11/01 BOOK: called Birdsong by Audrey Wood.
Each page features a bird, sound of the bird and children of different
cultures are featured in different settings. The drawings are beautiful.
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7/01 BOOK: It's called "Let's Make Music!" and is an interactive musical trip
around the world (that's what it says!). It is basically a collection of
multicultural songs and activities.
I used this book for International Month. It was left by a former music teacher. The children LOVED, LOVED, LOVED the song "Let's Make Music Again". We added instruments that closely resembled (as best we could) the instruments in the song (woodclapper, pien chung, etc.). Two years from now when it's Int'l Month again, I think we'll actually make some of the projects in the book.
7/01 I must add a fantastic resourse I just discovered today in a graduate class I
am taking in Conn. It is called Let Your Voice Be Heard! Songs from Ghana
and Zimbabwe, and Roots and Branches: A Legacy of Multicultural Music for
Children. Both are by World Press Music. Judith Cook Tucker is one of the
co-authors, and she came and did a workshop for us. The music is some of the
best I have ever heard, and the dances and song/games are wonderful. We did
not want her to leave!!!! The website is- www.worldmusicpress.com
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7/01 BOOK: Roots and Branches is full of wonderful multi-cultural songs,
games and dances. I especially liked "Bonjour, Mes Amis" which is Cajun, El
Juego Chirimbolo, which is from Ecuador. From the book called Let Your
Voice Be Heard, we loved Bantama Kra Kro, from Africa ( I cannot remember
what country). This is a call/response stick game song that we could not get
enough of! We also "Sorida" from Zimbawe, and others. The book called All
Hands On! An Introduction to West African Percussion Ensembles is fantastic.
There is this method of notating percussion called Akun ( I left my paper in
school, so I am not sure if this is what it is called), that uses a number
system and a grid to tell percussion parts when to play. You can use this for
composition also- we had lots of fun with this. All of these books/CD's can
be ordered on line from World Music Press at www.worldmusicpress.com
All of the books have pictures of the country and instruments, and truly
respect multi-culturalsim. They have Native American, Caribbean, Polish,
Cambodia, Uganda, China, Vietnam and so much more.
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"Universal Language". We are doing Gonna Rise Up Singing by Don Besig, Getting to Know You from The King and I arranged John Leavitt, Sakura (from silver burdett music), Waltzing Matilda - from Silver burdett music book, De Colores arr. Sonja Poorman, The Peddler - from Silver burdett music book, Land of the Silver Birch arr. Pat Willet, Kuimba Asante by Dave and Jean Perry great piece with Swahili words about giving thanks to God. , Bashana haba'ah --Hebrew Song by Nurit Hirsch - edited by Henry Leck, and Singabahambayo from Songs of the Rainbow Children by Cheryl Lavender, the students love this song the best. I used some of the dialog from "Universal Language" and some from "A New Day" some from "A World of Music." The students really like all of these songs and have enjoyed singing in the different languages. In art class they made flags from various countries all over the world that we will hang on the walls for the program. We also made some giant world views from space and are putting them up.
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ACTIVITY: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/school/Antarctica/------------------------
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06/15 SONG: Tafta Hindi - popular folk song found in several US collections One thing to note about traditional Middle Eastern (including Israeli) music is that there is often not much harmony, maybe a drone. The interest is not harmonic; it is an ornamented melody line and intricate rhythm accompaniment. ---- Martha Stanley-------------
12/11 ADVICE: [Before attempting holiday songs] You might want to consult a cleric in your local area. It seems to me I read somewhere (I cannot point to where) that singing songs about Islam in a non-worship setting is offensive - especially when sung by non-Muslims. Perhaps it falls under the "Idle Talk" verse.
http://noblequran.com/translation/index.html ( find 31:6 ) ---- Stephen Wight
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06/06 BOOK: “Tales Told in Tents” Gr. 2-4. 12 traditional stories from the nomadic cultures of Central Asia, Kazakhstan, Afghanistan, and others. The tales include large watercolors with settings of deserts, mountains, rivers and cities. Included is resource material with maps, glossary and notes about each story.
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01/02 RAMADAN: As the month of Ramadan goes past, The Muslims every day do fast.
No food, no drink, sunrise to set And no bad deeds , now don't forget.
To needy people everywhere We give them money, food and care.
And finally after thirty days We all give thanks and lots of praise.
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MUSLIM INFO: Note from a teacher: (The children who come to our school do so to get a western education. Many of them are devout practicing Muslims, but by no means could they be considered "fundamentalists". Among some of the most conservative Muslims here, there are certainly some who feel that music that is not "lifted to God" is not acceptable. Often, when a family leaves its home culture, the link to that culture becomes more important, so I can imagine that you may well encounter the phenonmenon and I not. However, I wouldn't borrow trouble by expecting that they won't sing secular songs, but be ready to respond in some way if questioned. Maybe those students could always do only instrumental parts. There are very few Arabic children's songs collected. I would suggest you look for a book by Sally Mansour. Even better (no, I'm not prejudiced!) is my colleague's Master's capstone. If you have access to any public library, or especially a university library, they should be able to get a copy through interlibrary loan. Rebecca Nerenhausen wrote *Music Educator as Field Worker: The Collection of Egyptian Children's Songs* August, 1997, and should be available from the University of St. Thomas. She has several children's songs, some with games, in her last chapter. You might request that the university copy only that chapter for you. Then again, for a master's thesis, the whole thing is really interesting reading Madelyn Edens Cairo American College (K-12) Box 39 Maadi, Cairo, Egypt
ISLAM SITE: www.submission.org Choose English; the column on the left has a reference to music and singing; discussion about perspective on singing.
SONG: "Eh he lan we se he lan" which means welcome in Arabic. Lyrics: Eh he len we se he lan (Arabic for "welcome") Rhythm: 2/4 ti ti /ti ti / ti ti / ti (eighth note rest) Melody: m, l / l t / d l / l (eighth note rest) children repeatThe second part actually starts on the ending eighth rest above with a vocal slide up from d - l (2 ti ti's tied together with an underline here on the computer since I don't have any notation software, hence creating a ta). Lyrics: ee-eh he len we se he lan Rhythm: ti / t ti / ti ti / ti ti / ti (rest) // Melody: d / r r / r d / d l / l (rest) // Remember: the children repeat each line after the leader. Then continue on with "tun tun tun" & "oo oo oo" or anything else you come with while varying the dynamics and reinforcing the beat, etc. It is usually nice to end on soft "oo's."
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ABOUT PERSIAN MUSIC: http://www.kereshmeh.com/music.php /
ABOUT PERSIAN MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS http://www.kereshmeh.com/instruments.php
ABOUT IRANIAN MUSIC: http://www.medieval.org/music/world/iran.html
LYRICS, SOME MIDIS: http://www.mamalisa.com/world/atoz.html (Words only)
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BOOK: Alice Olsen has a book entitled Musica Arabia A sample of mid-eastern music, story and dance adapted for the Orff approach. $12.00
http://www.aliceolsen.com/pmultic.htm
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12/11 SONG: CLICK GO THE SHEARS: http://www.mamalisa.com/?t=es&p=2719&c=19#multimediaBoxVideoInternalLinkWarning: the word ‘whore’ appears in the song.
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08/15 TRANSLATION FOR WALTZING MATILDA: http://sound.westhost.com/matilda.htm
LINKS: Many Aussie pages here: http://www.ozramp.net.au/~senani/mainpage.htm
WALTZING MATILDA - "Walzting Matilda" was written by AB (Banjo) Paterson while visiting W. Queensland near Winton. He went to visit friends at the scene of shearer strikers burning the Dagworth shed. While he was there, he wrote the words to a tune adapted from the grand march: Bonnie Wood of Craigeliea. He combined new slang he had picked up (such as 'jumbuck') He combined tales he had heard of a wool scourer drowning in a water hole, striking shearers in the area and the mysterious death of a shearer.
RECORDING: the folksinger, who is very much loved here in OZ, is John Williamson. He has a great internet site at www.malleeboy.com and if you go to his merchandise and click on the song Old Man Emu, the whole song is on th clip, and it's a fun one for kids. His album."John Williamson's Family Album" is great.
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11/03 RESOURCE: Wonderful resource includes songs and stories from Australia. It is done by Don Spencer (who is VERY famous in Austr.) and Paul Taylor (a man who has been coming to our school for about the past 8 years as an artist-in-residence.) There are too many songs for me to list here, so I'll refer you to his (Paul's) website. Their CD, called "Cooee" just won a parent's choice Gold Award. This is a national asociation of parenting publications award. I guarantee this is a WONDERFUL JAM PACKED RESOURCE!!! here is the website:
home page: http://www.paultaylor.ws/
Contributed by Theresa Auld
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11/03 BOOK: The book Marsupial Sue by John Lithgow is great. It's about a kangaroo that is unhappy and wants to be something else. She tries being a koala, a platapus, etc. and ends up being happy to be herself. My book came with the CD of the song and I do a big unit with my second graders about Australia and marsupials. - Contributed by Sarah Davies
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09/03
COLORING ANIMALS: http://www.allaboutnature.com/coloring/k.shtml (animals of Australia)
04/03 DIGIRIDOO: I had my students use 1 and 1/4 schedule 40 white pvc pipe (from home depot) which I bought and then cut them into 52 inch lengths for C pitch and 45 inch lengths for D pitch. I then melted bees wax for the mouth piece (from Michaels craft store or a bee farm that sells it). I then took each class (5th and 6th grade) outside and had them spray paint them different colors. I charged each kid $5.00 for materials. Was it a hassle? yes! was it fun? Absolutely!
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08/02 DIDGERIDOO BASIC TONE
Place the end of the didge over your mouth firmly (but not real hard) and buzz your lips somewhat the way that a note is sounded on a trumpet, but with your lips a lot looser; sort of like a "razzberry" or "Bronx cheer". It doesn't take a lot of pressure; in fact once the tone is going your lips aren't even touching. It's hard to explain exactly what you have to do to get the right sound, but when it happens it's quite obvious. Some people get it almost immediately and others have to experiment for a whilebefore they do. Anyone can learn it with a little effort. At first you'll probably only be able to doit occasionally and only for short durations, but with a little practice you'll see noticeable improvement fairly quickly. During the initial phases you'll want to experiment with the size and shape of your mouthpiece to find the ideal for you and you'll also want to experiment with whether to place the didge over the center of your mouth or off to one side; there's no right or wrong way, only your way. You should spend quite a bit of time to get very consistent and efficient at producing the basic (fundamental) didge tone until you can get both volume and pitch to remain quite steady for as much as 20 seconds or more on a single breath. The short video clip will demonstrate the basic idea. The sort of sound I'm making with the didge off my mouth gives you an idea of how loose the lips are when you're making the proper sound with the didge.
http://www.didgeridoostore.com/howtoplay.html
Free instruction and sound clips
Didgeridoo University with Paul's instruction
http://www.woodwind.org/clarinet/Study/CircularBreathing.html
Help on learning circular breathing - Arizona State
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MK8 (http://www.musick8.com/) has a nice arrangement of "Kookaburra", Vol 8:1 and there's also some nice didgeridoo sounds on the tape too......and there's also a song and dance also in MK8 called the kangaroo hop.
And then of course, Waltzing Matilda is great.
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ACTIVITIES: 6th grade social studies: Australia (we make didjeridus, study Waltzing Matilda, the bull roarer, etc.)
If you use picture books in your classes, two that relate to the animals of Australia are THE OLD MAN WHO LOVE TO SING, by John Winch, Scholastic Inc, and THE SINGING SNAKE by Stefan Czernecki, Hyperion Paperbacks for Children. (didgeridoo) My kids love the MK8 version of "Kookaburra," >vol. 8-1. I also have a warm-up activity based on "Who Has the Penny?" and using animals of Australia, New Zealand, and New Guinea. Contact me privately if you want more info. on that
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BOOKS: If you use picture books in your classes, two that relate to the animals of Australia are THE OLD MAN WHO LOVE TO SING, by John Winch, Scholastic Inc, and THE SINGING SNAKE by Stefan Czernecki, Hyperion Paperbacks for Children. (didgeridoo) My kids love the MK8 version of "Kookaburra," vol. 8-1. I also have a warm-up activity based on "Who Has the Penny?" and using animals of Australia, New Zealand, and New Guinea. Contact me privately if you want more info. on that.
KOOKABURRA: http://aviary.owls.com/kookaburra/kookaburra.html Kookaburra site Information about the bird and 2 photos
DIGIRIDOO: Didge wax is a common part of the didgeridoo. Aboriginals will put natural beeswax around one end and shape it to fit their mouth. It protects them from the roughness of the wood and also makes a mouthpiece that is personalized. The wax does eventually harden. Maybe they gave you extra so that you could remold another mouth piece in case you need it. In any case, just take the wax off, roll some of it like a fat worm and apply it around the end, then blow, it will take the shape of your mouth.
STORY: Also check out the Austrialian story of Wombat Stew. (Can't think of the author off hand) but it has a reoccuring song with notation to the song in the back of the book.
BAND: Australia? Be sure to listen to some music by "Men at Work."
ABORIGINAL arts project, many lessons, links (may not work for you but can use without), great photos, lots of information, sound clips, etc., geared to upper elementary, great site. http://projects.edtech.sandi.net/dailard/oceanarts
SONGS:
Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport...Rolf Harris
Home Among the Gumtrees...W. Johnson and B. Brown
Old Man Emu...John Williamson
Waltzing Matilda...Words by A.B.(Banjo) Peterson Music by Christina
Macpherson (There is also a wonderful book by the same title...don't have the info on the book) DID YOU KNOW.....that Waltzing Matilda is so popular in Australia that they at one time considered making the song their national anthem??
SONG WEBSITE: http://www.chepd.mq.edu.au/boomerang/songnet/intro.html
CHRISTMAS CAROLD: Yes- here in Australia we do sing all the traditional carols ( esp.english ones) and about "dashing through the snow"- Frosty the Snowman etc- probably makes us feel cooler since the temperature is usually at its' peak late December.!!!
However, over the past few years a number of "Australian Carols" have become popular.
Rolf Harris did a great one "Six white Boomers" - about six large white kangaroos driving Santa Claus through the midday sun.
There is another nice one about "3 Drovers" ( people who drive cattle from one place to another). This is an Australian setting to the shepherd story.
Jingle Bells has been given an Aussie flavour - instead of of a "one horse open sleigh" - the dash is in " a rusty Holden Ute"!!
Warner/Chappell Music Australia has a Set of 3 books of Australian Carols - Music by william James and words by John Wheeler.- some quite difficult. The Code on the Second Set (my only one) is 13575. (From the cover)
There is available arrangements for 2 parts and also an Australian Musical Christmas Play "The Three Drovers" No doubt there are other OZ Carols.
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BALI
Book: Ayu and the Perfect Moon, David Cox, Pub. Bodley Head, London: A lovely picture book about a young girl who dances in BaliBACK to Multicultural Music topics
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RED GRAMMER: You might try any of Red Grammer's songs. He is a Baha'i and his music reflects the Baha'i ideal of doing away with all forms of prejudice whether racial, religious, social, gender, etc. His album, Teaching Peace, is one of my favorites and I know of many music educators (non-Baha'i) who have used the songs from this album. My favorite song from this album sounds alot like the song you are asking about. It's called, "Barnyard Boogie", and has a really fun refrain: "Hello (echo:hello), ola (ola), jambo, jambo, kamluikaymunhoma (this is one of the Chinese languages for hello and I don't know how to spell it). The album has a book with all the songs in it. It talks about the things you mention.
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SONG ARRANGEMENTS: I just did three treble arrangements of Cajun songs for the OAKE National Children's Chorus to perform at the March conference in New Orleans. They are easy to medium pieces, and they are all settings of traditional Acadian/Cajun songs. "La Violette" is actually a singing game and the directions can be found in Jeanne & Robert Gilmore's "Chantez, La Louisiane", which is now distributed through Brain Dance, Inc. (Jim Ryan's San Antonio-based company).
"Salangadou" is a beautiful ballad, and the third piece is a medley of "P'tit Galop pour Mamou" and "Colinda". These three arrangements are published by Plymouth Music Co, in the Henry Leck World Folk Songs Series. La Violette arr. Susan Brumfield,HL-251,$1.25,4pt,treble with drum & triangle Salangadou arr. Susan Brumfield HL-253 $1.25 4pt. treble with piano P'tit Galop, Colinda arr. Susan Brumfield HL-252 $1.35 4pt. treble with cajun band (fiddle and piano)
You can also get the Gilmore books from Brain Dance, Inc. along with another wonderful book, La Danse Ronde, by Catherine Blanchet. I don't have the address, but Jim probably has a web site , because he has many other multi- cultural materials. There is also a book (Mel Bay, I believe) called "Le Hoogie Boogie", which goes along with a recording for children by Beausoleil. It's a terrific recording.
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01/02 PUZZLE: Interactive map of Canada
Amabile Singers has a fabulous Oh Canada CD with 13 versions ranging from Canadian Brass to the Nylons. It is $22 and can be ordered from Themes & Variations - email [email protected]
CD with nine versions of "O Canada": You can order a CD for $23.00 Canadian funds (covers shipping,etc.) at National Anthem Productions 81 Willowbank Blvd. Toronto, Ontario M5N 1G7 Canada
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07/05 SONGS: Oh What A Day! http://www.musick8.com/Janie Mama, Princie, Water Come a Me Eye and Day-O
Shake the Papaya Down, Sweet Potatoes, Mango Walk
SLOOP JOHN B: We included "The Sloop John B" in our spring concert last year, and it was awesome! While the 6th grade chorus sang, eight girls danced a conga line (modiefied with some of their own choreography)in bright tropical skirts, shorts, tanks, etc., while other girls and boys accompanied the chorus on xylophones, conga, claves, and maracas. The "band" wore bermudas, bright open shirts over tropical colored t-shirts and caribbean straw hats. We sang the SB version with its two part harmony. Sure love our Peripole-Bergerault instruments! Melanie Roewe
How about "Hill and Gully"? The SB series used to have it about 5th grade or so. Way back in the 50's or maybe 60's Harry Belafonte recorded it. Kids always liked it! If you're into Orff instruments, it's pentatonic so could handle an easy accompaniment. Louise Eddington, Muncie, Indiana, E. Luane Campbell Elementary Music Instructor & Talented and Gifted intervention specialist Mt. Gilead Schools, Ohio
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8/01 CALYPSO: I'm starting the school year with a unit on Calypso music with my 5th & 6th graders. I've done this unit before, but feel I need some fresh ideas....mainly for me! (Tired of the same ole' plans) Here's what I've used in the past:
Songs - Mary Ann, Matilda, Jamaica Farewell, Water Come a-Me Eye, Emma, Day-O, Tinga Layo
We study syncopation and add instrument accompaniment to the above songs (we
have several calypso instruments); we dance the limbo; we study briefly
the history/culture/economics/government of the individual islands;
sometimes we sample foods from the Caribbean.
Although I haven't made one, I saw/played a instrument made from
assorted size cans (soup, etc) that had quite a decent sound when
played like a steel drum. The cans were organized by pitch in a
wooden framework.
Someone posted this a while ago. It might help you with your steel drums:
Use a large coffee can or an olive oil can (the largest you can find) and a
small hammer.
are some possible things you could paint on a round cardboard:
Wish I could ship my palm tree which is in my room and was left over from "Treasure Island" last year. In its earlier life it was a street light in "The Castaways"!! Yeah - like I can really FIT a tree in my room. But I'm sentimental about such things..... Seriously, a large long tube (carpet store?), secured at the bottom to a wooden base - with newspapers, create paper mache palm leaves (easy! Even I could do it!) and paint them green!
Oriental Trading Company catalog has some great tropical decorations. I have some small palm trees, birds, and flower garlands. I would recommend checking there.
07/05 My kids loved Tales of Temples and Tombs (3rd grade) . We chose this musical because the classes were studying this topic in their curriculum. They are both very short and sweet. Songs are a little fluffy, but very singable and the kids loved them! In between each song one class would do a little "informance." Perhaps a poem about the creatures of Egypt, or mummy jokes, or an Egyptian fashion show. Etc. Each class was responsible for designing their own 5-minute segment. I taught the songs/choreography, the art teacher helped the kids prepare the costumes, props and sets. Lots of parent involvement too. The administration loves these integrated presentations.
07/05 I've done Temples and Tombs about three times and I would not change a thing. The kids love the music and the 20 minutes musical is perfect in my opinion. However, I ended up doing it with 1st graders and decided to shorten it. We did the first song, then we did the "Down by the Banks", and then the "Pharoah" song. I didn't have enough time to do the "Mummy Song" so instead I added this song using the Music K-8 version of "I Love the Mountains". Here's what I changed to words to: I love the delta. I love the Nile, too. I love the treasures! King Tut is very cool! I love the pyramids, with the sphinx so grand. Pyramids, oh pyramids, Egypt has the pyramids. Pyramids, oh pyramids, Egypt has the pyramids. The teachers made all of the first graders Egyptian collars out of turquiose tag and then they put glitter and "gems" on them. All 90 kids looked adorable. I had to be careful that my choreography and sign language didn't have the kids putting their hands up in the air because if they did that, the collars went up into their faces!!! They were adorable!. Caryn Mears
07/05 We had each class do a little 5 minute informance between each number and it made the show run about 40 minutes. We had a class do a hieroglyphics presentation, one presented animals of Egypt, one did a mummy fashion show, etc. etc. Parents loved it because each class got their moment out on the front of the stage. Artie Almeida
5/02 The Egyptian MUSICAL I used was "TALES OF TEMPLES and TOMBS" by Donna Amorosia. It had seven songs, easy rhyming dialogue, and the teacher's book came with student reproducible parts and also reproducible integration activities. The kids loved it and so did our classroom teachers, who were going nuts trying to find fun activities to cover our standards of learning (in Virginia, third grade is tested on Ancient Civilizations) I ordered it from Music in Motion, but it is in all the catalogues.
I do this with 3rd grade each year and they LOVE it. It has become a great tradition at our school and the younger ones look forward to 3rd grade so they can get to do it. They make costumes out of white pillow-cases and decorate them up and we have a ball! E-mail me for more details if you want. The book has worksheets and pages to xerox for teachers to use too.
I taught the music portion of a summer arts camp focusing on Egypt this year. Temples and Tombs was a great resource, but the other thing the kids really enjoyed was the soundtrack to "The Prince of Egypt." It has examples of Arabic singing in a semi-Western context and uses traditional middle Eastern instruments as well as orchestral. Just to give you some ideas:
5/01 Temples and Tombs: I did this with
first graders...you get the rights to make copies and there are
classroom
activities too!~ My kids were doing a Core Knowledge unit on
Egypt, but
this would easily adapt up to 3rd~too.~ We added a streamer
routine
using Steve Martin's "King Tut" (the parents loved it)...and a couple
other
songs too! Costumes were easy!~ Charged $1.75 and we bought big
white
undershirts which were worn loose with a piece of gold "cord" (really
that
yellow tow rope) around their waist.~ Shorts underneath and bare
feet.~ Since the shirts were so long, you couldn't see the
shorts, thus a
more authentic look!~ They were so cute!~ They made collars
in art
class out of paper plates of all things (glittery and colorful), and
everybody
got a swipe of eyeshadow (since the "men" wore color on their eyelids
at that
time.~ It was easy, fun, and well-recieved!
Ok ok...enough for now!~ Work
day at
school today and then tomorrow...KIDS!
BUT...someone must have listened to
my
schedule lamenting, because it is totally "fruit basket upset," but I
have a
litttle planning time!
Kathy in Kansas, who is not yet back
in the
school mode, but better make it happen
QUICK!
10/02 SONG: In the kindergarten STM, there is a song called "Salma ya Salama" and a cute story that goes with called "Abu Ali Counts His Donkeys" The song is not as difficult as it would seem. I think it'd be really neat to put it on as a Revue, just don't have a time slot to do it or the time to work on it. Don't know where the teachers ordered it from, but it's "Ancient Egypt: A Musical Revue" by Haverlea Press, LLC / Copyright 1997. It has reproducible lyric sheets and a spiral bound teachers manual w/ sheet music, costuming suggestions, and other helpful info. We DO act out the songs in the room sometimes and it's really a hoot to watch the kids be "Pharoah" or "Pharoah's wives", etc.. I'm on a cart, so we keep it simple! Anyway, have really enjoyed using this book and the classroom teachers seem to appreciate what the kids learn while we sing. The song came from a Christian musical and we used the chorus and wrote a secular text for verses....kids helped The chord progression is exactly the same as the tune Louie louie. Chorus pharoah pharoah whoa....oh let my people go yeh yeh yeh yeh (repeat) Teachers and students enjoyed researching this topic. One student made a chariot that we rolled through the aisles during the pharoah song. Also we marched into auditorium on the INDIANA JONES THEME with flashlights for a splashy entrance. Costumes we made tunics out of sheets ...added a rope belt...and made black felt wigs. I don't sew real well so we hot glued them and added a band around head. Some were fancier, that showed the social status of Egyptians. The local hospital gave us some old sheets to use for students that had a hard time coming up with a costume.
Let cool. Dissolve yeast in warm water. Add dissolved yeast and egg and mix well. Stir flour and cinnamon into mixture. Add raisins and orange peel and mix well. Cover bowl with a cloth and place in a warm spot until dough doubles in size. (1-1/2 hours).
HOT CROSS BUNS RONDO-RAP It was written to correct the problem of the students--and the teachers--not knowing what hot cross buns were. The song is performed with a percussion beat. It was written to correct the problem of the students--and teachers--not knowing what hot cross buns were. The song is performed with a percussion beat.
A: Hot Cross Buns!
This song is available on the Web at:
("Ha'penny" is pronounced "Heypenny") Also could be played as a circle chase game - with the child on the outside reinforcing the beat on the others heads and on "you" that child chases around the circle.
SONGBOOK: Langstaff's collection of the Christmas Revels is a good reference even for older children. Similarly, there are tons of Irish songs that are suitable for this level, such as "The Wren Song" that is really about St. Stephen's Day (Dec. 26). I have one song from Pakistan but it isn't about the holidays (sorry).
Alouette, gentille Alouette,
Mary Had a Little Lamb: bonjour les enfants ! bonjour ! avez vous entendu parler de marie ? non, que s'est-il passé ? elle a un petit mouton. oh vraiment ? comment est-il ? sa toison est blanche comme la neige.
Marie a un petit mouton, p'tit mouton,p'tit mouton Marie a un p'tit mouton tout blanc comme un flocon//Et partout ou va marie,va marie,va marie le mouton y va aussi.// Il la suit dans son école,son école,son école, Il la suit dans son école, et fait des cabrioles,// ça fait rire les enfants,les enfants,les enfants, ça fait rire les enfants, de le voir sur un banc,// La maitresse le met dehors,met dehors,met dehors, La maitresse le met dehors, mais il est là encore// il attend bien gentiment,gentiment,gentiment, il attend bien gentiment,le petit mouton blanc// Pourquoi l'mouton aime marie,aime marie,aime marie, Pourquoi l'mouton aime marie, demandent les petits//
Parce qu'elle aime son mouton,son mouton,son mouton, Parce qu'elle aime son mouton, tout blanc comme un flocon//
Au clair de la lune, mon ami Pierrot, Prete moi ta plume, pour ecrire un mot,
Ma chancelle est mort, je n'ai plus de feu, Ouvre moi ta porte, pour l'amour de Dieu.
Au clair de la lune, Pierrot repondit, Je n'ai pas de plume, je suis dans mon lit, Va chez la voisine, je crois qu'elle y est. Car dans sa cuisine, on bat le briquet.
Dans son lit de plume, Pierrot se rendort, Il reve a la lune, son coeur bat bien fort, Car toujours si bonne, pour l'enfant tout blanc, La lune lui donne, son croissant d'argent.
In the moonlight, my friend Pierrot, Let me have your quill, to write a note.
My candle has hied, I have no more fire. Open your door to me, for the Love of God.
In the moonlight, Pierrot did reply, I have no quill, I am in my bed.
Go see the neighbor, I think she is home, For in her kitchen I hear lots of moving.
In his bed of feather, Pierrot falls back asleep he dreams of the moon, his heart beats strongly, because she's always so nice, to that white child, the moon gives to him her silver crescent.
ils s'en allaient jusqu'à la mare se dandinant cahin-caha mais le petit canard avec la crête sur le dos
Ils sont repartis de la mare se dandinant cahin-caha mais le petit canard avec la crête sur le dos
tête, épaule, genoux et pieds, tête, épaule, genoux et pieds, les yeux, les oreilles, la bouche, le nez, tête, épaule, genoux et pieds.
2. Les poupees font comme ca All move to the center and back like (The dolls go like this) stiff walking dolls. Then march to the center.
CHRISTMAS TRADITION: I am from Germany and here is how we celebrate Christmas: Here we go to service (on this special day it's called Christmette) on December 24 (with children it's in the afternoon, otherwise there are usually services at around 10 and in Austria it's around midnight). At nighttime, the family eats dinner together, sings Christmas songs together
(something which children try to cut as short as possible because they are so impatient) and then the presents are unwrapped. (A special custom from the area where my grandparents lived was to have potato salad and sausages for dinner and my Dad kept up that custom - something my mother hated - therefore it was only every other year - most people have a very nice dinner and she felt like being cheated if she had to eat something everyday like potato salad.) December 25 and 26 also belong to Christmas holiday and are usually used to visit all your relatives and/or friends. Another traditonal Christmas dinner would be Christmas Goose. We do have a Christmas tree with decoration and lights and a few people have their houses decorated. A lot of people have an additional tree outside with just lights and no other decoration. Unfortunately people don't decorate their houses the way the Americans do (I thought it was great when I saw it for the first time (in Vermont and in Cape Cod) and added to the festive spirit of Christmas) The cities are decorated as well with lots of lights, fir wreaths etc. (Tomas' favorite experience was in Boston when one of the fir wreaths caught fire and the fire fighters arrived - his greatest Christmas wish ever is and was to ride on one of those fire trucks just once)
In December children get what we call "Adventskalender" - it is something (design doesn't matter) where you have the so-called "Tuerchen" (i.e. little doors although very often they are just little presents that were wrapped up and are hanging on a twig of a fir tree etc.). There are 24 of those and children are allowed to open one every day including Christmas eve. Behind
those "doors" there are bits of chocolate, other candies and goodies, small presents, whatever you like. Some you can buy all readymade (then it's just chocolate) but very often you design them yourself and put various things in them. (This is no longer restricted to children though - couples who don't have children yet sometimes do this for each other as well).
DANCE: Do "Ziguernerpolka" (for young students) or "Die Hammerschmiedsgesell'n" (for 4th or 5th grade) dances, both found in Teaching Movement and Dance by Phyllis Weikart. Of course you would also need the recordings, which are found in the accompanying Rhythmically Moving series. "Zig" is Phyllis' choreography, "Hammer" is an original German folkdance
verse:
repeat refrain
In addition:
BOOK: Kukuriku - Hebrew Songs and DancesA special thank you to Tossi Aaron for the ZEMER ATIK folk dance (resembling Egyptian wall paintings) I've made dozens of puilis. I use them constantly all year long. Here is the abbreviated version on how to make and use (maybe...... I get long-winded) Puilis are bamboo rattles. What rattles is the "tines" that are slit into the green bamboo. They are usually portrayed as being used in pairs but I rarely use them that way. Seated hulas (yes, they exist) often include a single puili, with the other hand used for expressive movement. http://www.hulapreservation.org/Visuals/KG%20NohoPuili%20b.jpg They last a really long time and are very adaptable as percussion instruments or movement manipulatives in the classroom, both of which the Hawaiis do. PLAYING RULES They know that I give one warning for one offense and then "I'm so sorry that you have to put that up now. What a shame!" I use them interchangeably with rhythm sticks. A section - sticks; B section- puilis, for example. I use them a lot with my little people for timbre contrast with sticks. MAKE YOUR OWN PUILIS: You need: freshly cut bamboo, an axe or machete, a SHARP heavy kitchen knife or cleaver and a hand saw with somewhat fine teeth Warning: do not start with bamboo that is already cut. You need the fresh stuff! Cutting dry bamboo is a royal pain and you will be in splinter heaven. (Well, if you cut it and leave it a week, it'll be okay. Don't get wrought up about it being absolutely fresh. But if the green is starting to go away and it is drying out, making the puili gets a LOT more tedious. Fresh is good.) == Get started. Cut down the stalk. Strip off the leaves - you'll need an ax, a machete or what the guy is holding looks like the cane knives they use in south Florida in the sugar cane fields - which of course they also have in Hawaii. You will enjoy working with puilis that are just big enough for you to put your thumb or largest finger into (and out of). Smaller works, sorta, but go for bigger it you can. I recommend that the inner diameter of the puili be right at an inch to and inch and a quarter wide. You can go as large as you like. I have a giant puili that I made that is nearly 4 feet long and at least 3" in diameter. Looks great on the wall. Sounds good, too. Cut the stalks to size. Eyeball the stalk again. Look at the knots/joints. Plan it out so you get the most from your stalks. You'll want to use your saw to cut the puili at a spot about 4"-5" below a knot. That makes the handle. Then you'll want to cut the top end for a puili that will be between 16" and 18" inches long TOTAL. Shorter is just a dud. Longer can work but it's a little unwieldy and besides, lots of times the joints are closer together than that. The top section should not have any joints in it. Cut the tines. This next part is very simple if you are careful (!), and use a heavy SHARP knife or cleaver. The green bamboo slices very easily. --Place the handle of the puili between your knees and get a good grip on it. --For the safety of your knees, ensure that the handle joint is higher than your skin, so that when you slice, the joint will prevent the knife from cutting too far and invading your personal space, if you get my drift. Take the knife (picture it like this: --O-- ) on each side of the top of the bamboo. I suggest holding the handle of the knife in one hand and pushing down on the blade with the other blade - it feels like a balanced push that way. -- Slice downward vertically, cutting the tube into 2 (mostly) equal sections. -- Rotate the bamboo 90 degrees and do it again....repeat the rotate/cut process till you have tines in eighths. Quarters don't work and 16ths bust up too much and don't clack satisfactorily. Let dry. They will not be completely dry and yellow-looking for maybe 10 months, but they are usable immediately. When you store them, allow them to breathe and air-dry, like in an open box. They are okay as they are. But if you wish to "nice" them up, take some sand paper or a sandpaper block and knock down the top and bottom edges and smooth out any places with shart edges on the joints where you cut the leaves off. That is what I prefer to do. And do it when they're GREEN. Much easier. Kids can handle the sanding portions, but I wouldn't let them do anything else. -- Contributed by Martha Stanley
Then the teachers had a go at it, one teacher is Irish, and halfway through she started doing a jig. Her students admonished her that she should have kept up the hula...because she could have won. But it was easy to pick the winner, one of the male teachers just was such a ham.
I then turn on the TV and we watch some of a marvelous video I got at the Polynesian Cultural Center on Oahu. The kids LOVE it. It features some scenes of Hawaii (surfing, Wakiki, volcanos, etc) and lots of music and dancing of Polynesia. I show just enough. Then I resume my captain's voice..."And now we are beginning our descent onto the Island of Oahu. We will be landing at Honolulu airport in a matter of moments!" I pretend to make a bumpy landing and ask the kids to applaud the pilot.
Next I show pictures (from an old Hawaiian calendar) of where we just landed: Honolulu, Waimea Bay, Diamond Head, hula dancers...and show on the map where we are. I become the "tour guide" instead of the captain. I take them to the Polynesian Cultural Center and we learn the Hukilau-song and hula dance and meanings of Hawaiian words. If time, we also do "Hawaiian Rainbows" and I demonstrate my collection of Hawaiian instruments (I have puilli sticks, ili-ili (black, flat rocks),ipu gourd, uli-uli gourds, kalu'a sticks (I use claves), and a ukelele (I play Hawaiian Rainbows on it) If time permits, we use colored scarves to show the phrasing of Hawaiian Rainbows.
Then its time to get back on board and return home. We fasten our seatbelts and say "Mahalo" (thank you) and Aloha to Hawaii! Kids of all ages have loved this trip. I have hour long classes so I can do all this in one class. One fourth grader said to me, "You forgot to tell us to turn off our electronic equipment!" The second graders ran to their teacher after class and said, "Mrs. S., you missed all the fun in Hawaii!". One third grader said, "When can we go to Hawaii again? We're going to go this summer and I need to know more about it!"
SONGS: The Hukilau Song (fishing party) and Hawaiian Rainbow with hand motions. Most series books have these songs. At Christmas time they love doing the Hawaiian version of 12 Days of Christmas. Glad to share these words if you are interested. I also have a video from Hawaii that I love. it is called Songs of Hawaii by Keiki Calabash. It has these wonderful songs: We Are Family (Ohana!), Jibber Jabber(Mynah Bird), Humuhumunukunukuapua'a (State Fish with a nose like a pig!), Pueo (owl), Hokule'a (Marker Star/Sailing Canoe), Ono Stuff (food), Notchy (Humpback Whale), Nene (Hawaiian goose..state bird). The vidoeo also explores some of the islands history as well as treasures.
12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS: One Mynah bird on one papaya tree (flap arms for bird and hands on top of head to form a tree; count the number gesture)
MELE KALIKIMAKA IN JULY!!
STATE FISH: I'd be sure to do the Humahumanukunukuapuaa song about Hawaii's state fish
SONG: We're Goin' to a HukiLau
FIRE CHAIN: One of the things shown was a "fire chain" where they swing burning torches around - - you could have your kids do that with flashlights. . .
THEME: Our school is involved in a reading program with a Hawaiian theme. I'd made plans to play a fishing game during music for all classes (magnetic poles with note values on paper fish) and have purchased 3 beachballs with musical terms (kids will throw the ball and define the term that is nearest their right thumb). I believed I had covered this all school theme quite nicely. Well........at tonight's meeting, everyone assumed I'd run a "Name that Tune" contest with beach/ocean/volcano/Pearl Harbor/poi/you name it song material.
HUNGARIAN ROUND (trad.)
ti-ti ti-ti ti-ti ta / ti-ti ti-ti ta ta /
there's even a bell part:
The melody (in minor):
3 3 1 1 2 3-2 1.
5 5 2 2 3 3-3 1 1
2 2-2 3-3 1 2 3 2.
2 2-2 5-5 5 2 3 1.
(eighth notes are hypenated; half notes have a period; quarter notes are normal)
PRONUNCIATION: a = ah; e = ay; i = ee; o = oh; u = oo; the th in "mother" and"ath" are pronounced as in "the", and as "thin" in "thvi" and "thyer"
TRANSLATION: Mother, mother, coo, coo, I am here beside you. I am wrapped in my blanket, in my blanket I am dancing. I am wrapped in my blanket, in my blanket I am dancing.
COLORING PAGES: Songs of India by Gloria Kiester and Martha Chrisman Riley: Traditional children's folk songs arranged for Orff instruments. English words are nearly exact translations of the original words. Some pieces have dance instructions.
Folk Tales of Indonesia, retold by Ny SD.B. Aman Pub. Penerbit Djambatan, no isbn. A collection of stories from various islands in Indonesia.
McGraw-Hill's Share the Music has a song from Iran in the 6th grade book called "Haji Firuz." It is about celebrating the new year on the first day of spring. There is also a listening selection in the Share the Music supplement called "Songs from Asia and Oceania."
ABOUT IRANIAN CLASSICAL MUSIC: http://www.medieval.org/music/world/iran.html
BOOK: called "Roots and Branches" by Patricia Shehan Campbell, that includes a CD, and information and songs about all different cultures of the world. The Middle East part of the book contains two songs from Iran and Israel that may be helpful, with a summary of the songs, the translation and information about the composers. Ellen McCullough-Brabson and Judith Cook Tucker are also names on the purple softcover book (I guess thy are co-contributors).
Too ra loo ra loo rah. Too ra loo ra lie. Too ra loo ra loo rah. Hush now don't you cry.
Sakura, Sakura, Yayo ino sorawa Miwatasu kagri Kasumika kumoka
CHOREOGRAPHY: My 2nds have performed "Firefly" with Orff added. We usually use a level bordun. It's in do-based pentatonic. It's in World of Music, Gr. 2 (English only) and listed as a Japanese folk song. My 3rds have performed "Hotaru Koi" from COME JOIN IN! (Elizabeth Gilpatrick) It is a round in Japanese, but no source is listed. Orff parts for BM and AM are included. -- Contributed by Connie Herbon
One of the costumes was a simple type of a shawl that was not attached at the bottom, just draped over one shoulder. It was a solid color and a teacher hot-glued cloth flowers and tree stems that she cut out on it. This was very "oriental" looking. She used only the cherry blossoms as the kids were singing Sakura, a Japanese song. But this was easy, she said, and maybe will give you some idea. I hope you get the picture of what it was. Note that the ends were not sewn so that it was easy to put on and the size of the child did not matter. The material was like a felt, so it sort of grabbed on to the clothes.
Japanese songs I have used in the past include "Sakura" which is in the MENC "Get America Singing" songbook, as well as other books.
Also, in "Roots and Branches" (a GREAT multi-cultural book/CD) is a funny round about frogs...also sung in Japanese. Then there is the New Years Song in the series boks
Starting position: Two fans open in front of face - hiding face - shy like every movement is done slowly and gracefully, usually girls in bathrobes and kimonos with flowers in their hair. Also can hang streamers off of fan handles. Hint for paper fans -- use clear tape and reinforce, they tear easily.
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Cherry bloom! Cherry bloom! Is it cloud with-in the sky, Fair white mist-wreaths floating by? No, for fragrance faints in air, Wand'ring, wafted ev'rywhere. Come with me! Come with me! Far has fled the winter's gloom.
We will expand this unit to include traditional Japanese music from music texts and (resource: Favorite Songs of Japanese Children: Alfred Publishing), a shadow screen rod puppet show based on Gerald Mc Dermott's The Stone Cutter, and a ballet movement with silk "Cherry Blossoms" to Sakura. My preschoolers and Kindergarten love Iche Ni Son to learn several Japanese phrases (fr video Big Bird Goes to Japan).
ta-ti ta-ti ta ta-ti ta-ti ta
ta-ti ta-ti ta-ti ta-ti
ta-ti ta-ti ta
Translation: You can get it in MIDI from several sources: MIDI SITE: Also, there is a fabulous MIDI site for all kinds of holiday and folk music, at: And there is a beautiful little site at You could use silver material and use that iron-on sticky tape, I think it's called "stitchwitchery", to fasten it on the blue. One year, I used huge boxes wrapped in Hanukkah paper. I cut out arm holes and let them twirl around like human dreidles. (That's the year my daughter was in 1st grade and I still have a picture of her onstage in her Hanukkah box costume.) For Hanukkah I bought blue t shirts and white t shirts and alternated the colors around the circle (for a circle dance to the Hanukkah song) I also bought gold scrunchies and attached a square of blue lacy fabric to each scrunchie. These were put on the wrist- one per kid- so that when they held hands or raised hands the scarves waved. It was very effective. Boys: Yarmelkes made out of blue felt
Teresa Jennings magazine Music K-8. In an old issue she had a Landino son Ocho Kandelikas which is a song counting the candles in a menorah that could have some possibilities.
Rabbi Robert Scheinberg United Synagogue of Hoboken, NJ
How about these: (First one i heard from Doug Cotler, the rest I made up) I use these every year and sometimes have the kids make up their own verses.
YOU AIN'T NOTHIN' BUT A DREIDLE (Words By Rabbi David Nelson)
Another good canon in Hebrew is Hava Nashira - (I can attest to this one, beautiful!!!)
LIGHT THE CANDLES [For Eight Nights] by Sally K. Albrecht 2 Part Treble Alfred 4765 This piece has an energetic rhythmic structure throughout. The text explains the historical story of Hanukkah. It uses English throughout. There's one more piece just published by Alfred. It is not specifically written for Hanukkah but I think it would be a great addition to any seasonal concert [Hanukkah or Advent / Christmas]
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There is a long tradition of playing games of chance during the evenings of the holiday. Originally the dreidel was not connected with Chanukah in any way. The German Christians also had the custom of spinning a top on Christmas eve. The Germans borrowed the game from the Greeks and Romans.
The Dreidel is a four sided top printed with the Hebrew letters: nun gimmel heh shin
These letters represent the words "nes godal hayah sham" and translate into A Great Miracle Happened There.
in the game starts with 10-15 tokens (nuts, raisins, matchsticks, pennies). Each player puts one of these into the middle (called the pot). The dreidel is spun by one player at a time. Whether he wins or loses depends on which face of the dreidel is up when it falls.
Nun means nisht or "nothing." Player does nothing.
When only one object or none is left in the pot, every player adds one. When an odd number of objects are in the pot, the player rolling heh, "half" takes half the total plus one. When one person has won everything the game is over.
Songs:
Volando por la nieve En un lindo trineo
The Pinata Song - a Mexican christmas song
Cantos para Jugar - by Francisco Aquino Pub:Trillas, 1991 (reprinted 1993)
ISBN: 968-24-3590-0
Remember the Jose Luis Orozco CDs and books are great too.
De Colores by Jose Luis Orozco Dutton Children's Books, New York, copyright 1994 ISBN 0-525-452-60-5 His CDs are available from ARCOIRIS RECORDS
PO BOX 7428, BERKELEY, CA 94707
THE DAY OF THE DEAD is a very interesting holiday because it is a blend of ancient traditions. In the old religions of Europe predating Christianity, it is believed that at the time of year around Halloween- All Hallows' Day, or "Samhain" the Celtic feast of the dead, the veil between the mortal and spiritual worlds is thinned, thus allowing contact with the ancestors. As children are the ancestors returning, then they are given treats to "feed the ancestors." At least, this is how it has been explained to me by Pagans I know.
Christianity incorporated many old cultural traditions and it became "All Soul's Day" - November 1. (For more information, look up THE WOMAN'S ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MYTHS AND SECRETS by Barbara Walker at the library. The Spiral Dance by Starhawk probably has something on this. I'm in California and this kind of information is readily available here.)
So, all Soul's Day was brought to the Americas by colonizers and was then blended with indigenous traditions here. In Mexico, marigold petals in small towns are scattered from the graves to the altars in the houses, where food and things of dead loved ones are laid out for the spirits.
In Mexico, there is a lot of joking and revelry about death, so that people become comfortable with the concept. I have thrown Day of the Dead parties at my house and I make skull cookies with each person's name on them. We serve the traditional thickened hot chocolate laced with cinnamon. My husband is a magician, so he does tricks at the door for the trick or treaters, and our house is very popular.
There is a lot of information about the Day of the Dead in the children's section at the library. Really, it can re-infuse a lot of meaning to Halloween, rather than the over commercialized version. It is a lot of fun.
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AL CITRON meter is 2/4 and song begins with 2 eighths as a pickup
(pass)-----(pickup)--(pass)----------------(pickup) etc.,
----------------------------------------------------(tap)--(cross tap)--(tap)
This is a stick passing game. You may use either one or two sticks. All action takes place on the first beats of each measure, except for the final 2 measures.
/ / / / / / / / l l l Z
(melody is same for lines 3 & 4 as 1&2 but close with the root tone)
3. Jump across the little stick the way I do,
Espanol: 1.Brinca la de vuel-ta yo ya la brinque.
Have the children practice with a rhythm stick, 'jumping' their fingers across the stick, then have them lay it on the floor to jump across during song.
There is a group that comes to my school to perform called "Grupo Canaveral" They perform traditional and children's game songs in spanish from all Latin countries.
You might want to look up "En Mi Viejo San Juan". Beautiful song, very well known and a tear jerker for the adults.
Julliard Repertory Library, Mayan tunes "Ztoles"
TRES HOJITAS MADRE (tree little leaves, mother) 2/4 (sounds: #d, r, m, f, s, l, bt= Bflat)[in De Colores - Orff Arrangements by Orff Schulwerk (Schott)]
Greg and Steve: The Days of the Week (Spanish words are given) in Song and Activity book: "We All Live Together" This includes the music, directions, etc., from about 4 different recordings of Greg and Steve.
Warren Publishing Company publishes Piggyback Songs in Spanish. They are very elementary and excellent to use
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Baa Baa Little Lamb, have you any wool?
Bah, Bah, Leele Lam (\) Har du (Gr) nooah uall
d s m m d r r s' s' d____ (2x)
Phyllis Weikart has dances and music in Rhythmically Moving.
There are so many things you can do with this by using the Olympic Theme. Another fun activity is to use the words of wisdom from the philosophers like Plato and improvise orff pieces using the rhythm of the words. "Music gives soul to the universe..." is one statement that works well for this.Grerogian chants and the new version of these would be perfect for Rome.
"Your group must come up with movement that matches the music to perform
at the end of class. There is no right or wrong way, but you must have
everyone in your group actively participating and most importantly your
moves must match the music. " --I also tell them that I will grade them
based on these directions at the end. (I give them a 1,2 or 3 and I tell
them what they got and why at the end of the class if front of everyone.)
Then I give the A section group flags that they must incorporate into the
movement, the B section group gets scarves and the C section group gets
ribbon sticks. [phrase 1,2,4: beetle sounds, phrase 3: The girl on the street, when she’s showing off looks like a rooster!
BAHAY KUBO
Bahay kubo, kahit munti, ang halaman doon ay sari-sari
the translation goes like this ...
nipa hut, although small, the plants there are fresh,
turnips and eggplants, sigarilyas and peanuts,
green beans, bataw, patani, kundol, patola, gourd, and squash,
and there’s still more!
The "o" sound in Russian has a dark, covered sound, similar to but not quite like the vowel sound in "foot." The "a" is like our "a" in "avocado," and the "i" is like our long "e" sound. End of lesson. Chorosho?
One of our school favorites is, Mi Burrito Sabanero:
Las Posadas: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Posadas
The Spotlight curriculum has a supplement called "Fiesta de Canciones" with
several nice songs, including "Mamacita, Donde Esta Santa Claus?" and "A
La Nanita"; also, the 4th grade Spotlight text has "Para Pedir Posada" and
"Entren Santos Peregrinos". -- Carol in Texas
Francisco Aquino Pub:Trillas, 1991 (reprinted 1993)
ISBN: 968-24-3590-0
Remember the Jose Luis Orozco CDs and books are great too.
De Colores by Jose Luis Orozco Dutton Children's Books, New York, copyright 1994 ISBN 0-525-452-60-5 His CDs are available from ARCOIRIS RECORDS
PO BOX 7428, BERKELEY, CA 94707
THE DAY OF THE DEAD is a very interesting holiday because it is a blend of ancient traditions. In the old religions of Europe predating Christianity, it is believed that at the time of year around Halloween- All Hallows' Day, or "Samhain" the Celtic feast of the dead, the veil between the mortal and spiritual worlds is thinned, thus allowing contact with the ancestors. As children are the ancestors returning, then they are given treats to "feed the ancestors." At least, this is how it has been explained to me by Pagans I know.
Christianity incorporated many old cultural traditions and it became "All Soul's Day" - November 1. (For more information, look up THE WOMAN'S ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MYTHS AND SECRETS by Barbara Walker at the library. The Spiral Dance by Starhawk probably has something on this. I'm in California and this kind of information is readily available here.)
So, all Soul's Day was brought to the Americas by colonizers and was then blended with indigenous traditions here. In Mexico, marigold petals in small towns are scattered from the graves to the altars in the houses, where food and things of dead loved ones are laid out for the spirits.
There is a lot of information about the Day of the Dead in the children's section at the library. Really, it can reinfuse a lot of meaning to Halloween, rather than the overcommercialized version. It is a lot of fun.
SONG: You might want to look up "En Mi Viejo San Juan". Beautiful song, very well known and a tear jerker for the adults.
SPANISH SONGS: http://www.ingeb.org/cates.html
LIBRARY: Julliard Repertory Library, Mayan tunes "Ztoles"
TRES HOJITAS MADRE (tree little leaves, mother) 2/4 (sounds: #d, r, m, f, s, l, bt= Bflat)[in De Colores - Orff Arrangements by Orff Schulwerk (Schott)]
Greg and Steve: The Days of the Week (Spanish words are given) in Song and Activity book: "We All Live Together" This includes the music, directions, etc., from about 4 different recordings of Greg and Steve.
PIGGYBACK SONGS: Warren Publishing Company publishes Piggyback Songs in Spanish. They are very elementary and excellent to use.
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8/01 FOUR WHITE HORSES? It is in the 4th grade SHARE
THE MUSIC textbook and it has a fun hand-clapping movement for groups of four
kids. It's a GREAT Caribbean tune.
4th Grade SHARE THE MUSIC textbook......
Hosanna Me Build A House
I Let Her Go, Go (features steel drums)
5th Grade SHARE THE MUSIC textbook.............
Mango Walk (in the textbook, two other partner songs are added.......sounds
cool when all three parts are sung)
One, Two, Three (cut down de sugar cane all day....)
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8/01 BOOK: There's a gorgeous picture book of the song "Island in the Sun" by
Ayliffe and Belafonte. A copy of the song is included at the back of
the book. Even my older students enjoy an occasional picture book
that ties in with our music activities.
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8/01 SONGS: There is also "Yellow Bird" in STM grade 5, which is not really a calypso
song, but it is in the style. And the gr. 6 Macmillan STM has "Day-O" No
one said "Sweet Potato" from GR 5. There is even the Christmas song: "Mama,
Bake the Johnnycake, Chris'mus Comin" in the Macmilllan STM gr.5. Grade 1
has a Calypso version of "A Tisket a Tasket" with a steel drum in the
accompaniment. All of these are in the 1995 version.
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8/01 HANDMADE STEEL DRUM: I made a 3-note steel drum out of a big coffee can as an experiment. I wanted to
see how hard it would be for the kids to do. I used three different sized jars
with their lids off. I placed the can right side up on top of one of the jars,
also right side up. Then I took a one inch dowel and held it upright inside the
can, over where the open end of the jar was touching the bottom of the can. With
a hammer I pounded on the dowel so it would make an circular indentation in the
bottom of the can, inside the jar. It took alot of hammering, and some one had
to hold the jar and can for me. When the can bottom wouldn't stretch any more I
moved the jar to another spot on the can' bottom. It was hard to tune this
instrument, and I'm not sure I can trust my 6th graders with hammers!
"How to make a dudup (A 2-note steel drum)
First, make your stick! Use a 6 inch piece of 1/2" dowel with rubber bands
wrapped around the end.
Set your can or barrel on a solid flat surface. Draw a line with chalk or pen
across the top of the can or barrel just slightly off center, dividing the
circle into two slightly different sizes.
Use a hammer of an appropriate size to pound up and down the line you have
drawn, forcing the surface of the drum down. This will stretch the two areas and
make them resonant.
Sometimes the two notes will become apparent as you pound down the line.
Use your playing stick with your other hand to test the notes as you hammer.
Your dudup is done when the two areas that make notes are as resonant as
possible, and are about a fourth or a fifth apart. Don't worry if it's not in
tune
with your piano; the dudup is a rhythm instrument that sounds good in any
key!
You can make shakers from cans with beans or popcorn in them. Bottles tapped
(not hard!) with wooden sticks and the sound of these shakers can
form the basis for a great rhythm band! Play the dudup in a island beat!"
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8/01 SONG: Shake the Papaya Down arr. by Ruth E. Dwyer and Judith M. Waller is a fun
and great little three part calypso song. Easy to teach as well.
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SONGBOOK: Island Dreams, Music by Alice Olsen
A collection of original and folk songs arranged for steel drums and Orff instruments. All the songs may also be played with Orff instruments alone. http://www.aliceolsen.com/pmultic.html
--faces of different people from the Caribbean region
--a smiling sun
--tops of palm trees
--fruit, like a bunch of bananas or a pineapple
--different colored large flowers
--map of islands
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CUBA
07/05 SONG: Lunita Lunera is great [song]for the youngest students. It is a finger game...you pretend you are looking at the moon through your fingers, then count off the constellations of the bull and calf by touching five fingers in a row. (Note: ask at your library for a listing -usually in a book- of songs in song collections; the songs are listed alphabetically by song indicating the title of the collection it is located , the library would then put a mark next to the collections it owns.
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CZECH REPUBLIC
ABOUT CZECH MUSIC: http://www.afocr.org/czech-music
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DENMARK
The Windmill Song Alternate energy sources
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ECUADOR
CHILDREN'S SONGS: http://www.mamalisa.com/?p=731&t=ec&c=109
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EGYPT
01/16 MYSTERY OF THE NILE - Teacher guide to video: https://www.imax.com/community/education/
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06/15 SONG: Tafta Hindi. This is a good song on its own; it's about selling colored cloth; it is well known in the mideast, sort of a folk song almost; it is a vendor "call" Tafta hindi, tafta hindi, who will buy my colored cloth? Lots of cultural context that is easy to apply. Contrast it with Hot Cross Buns---- Martha Stanley
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CDs by Putumayo and Will Schmid: Arabic Groove and Global Grooves.
Song titles are: Amarain; Intil Waheeda; Kidda; Salma Ya Saalema ----- Julie Jones
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10/12 SONG: an ancient Egyptian love song:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/02/0213_1stlovesong.html
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01/07 Here's a site to show how to spell your name in Egyptian heiroglyphs- - wow!
Just type in your name and BAM, a cartouche!
http://www.virtual-egypt.com/newhtml/glyph/glyph.html -- Martha in Tallahassee
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TEMPLES AND TOMBS (musical) (2d grade) I have the kids form a "pyramid" on the risers and use grey construction paper as "blocks" and we build a pyramid as they sing the song "Pyramid". It looks cool. It's an easy-to-learn show and my kids and parents just love it. -- Pat Price
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"Tales of Temples and Tombs" kids eye view of Egypt Zemer Atik folk dance looks like an Egyptian wallpainting
Heiroglyphics colored on cards for translating into stories, costuming "The Trumpet of Tutankhamun"
Started with the program TALES OF TEMPLES AND TOMBS and added these songs to it.
WALK LIKE AN EGYPTIAN...in a Hal Leonard Songkit
INDIANA JONES THEME SONG...flashlight choreography also have someone dress like Indiana Jones w/a whip
PHAROAH PHAROAH....one of students favorite
1. I had the second and third graders make sistrums out of reshaped wire hangers, craft wire, metal washers, and cardboard tubes for the handles. Weplayed them to "Through Heaven's Eyes" from the soundtrack - this song was the definite favorite of all of the kids (and me too! Brian Stokes Mitchell
2. Grades 4 - 6 made harps, which didn't actually play, but they were great visuals. The instructions were in "Make It Work! Ancient Egypt." I also used the song "Playing with the Big Boys Now" from the soundtrack with them. The song includes a very long list of Egyptian gods; I put all the names on a list, we listened to the song a few times, and they had to try to find the responsibility and/or significance of each god using the resources in the classroom. (I think I had every book on Egypt in 2 counties!)
3. I also used the book "The Egyptian Cinderella," sorry, I don't remember the author - Shirley Climo, I think. It's one of the world's oldest Cinderella stories and based partially on truth. We compared it to the "traditional" Cinderella story, but my colleague at the middle school had her 7th graders turn it into an opera. To find out how, check out the March 1999 issue of Music Educator's Journal - the article by Eileen Hower. She does great work with those kids.
4. The Aida book by Leontyne Price is great. Be sure to notice how the illustrations in the borders tell what is happening on the page.
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I have a great CD with Paul Horn (flute, alto flute) playing in the King's Tomb of the Great Pyramid of Giza. It is haunting and the kids are quite captured by the aura of the sound and the music he plays. Really sets the mood.
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SONGS: I have been using songs from "Ancient Egypt: A Musical Revue" ... something the 2nd. grade teachers ordered a while back and never used. We don't actually perform the revue but it has neat songs which explain the Egyptian social pyramid. I compare the "social" pyramid to the physical Egyptian pyramid and the kids really seem to get it (Pharoah, the "big cheese" @ the top, next, Governors, Scribes and Priests, etc. ...down the line to the bottom w/ slaves and farmers). There's a song about each part of society. After singing the songs the kids finally decide (with my help sometimes!) that the slaves and farmers were on the bottom because they COULDN'T READ! Of course, I go into my talk about how important reading is and it seems to work. And we talk about how, today, farmers HAVE to know how to read to order supplies, sell their produce, etc.. So, we decide farmers today are NOT @ the bottom of society! It also has a song about the Nile River.
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05/02 There were some cute songs and dialogue in the musical, "IT'S ABOUT TIME" by Donnelly/Strid that I did last year. It is older elem-middle school level. Tough for my 4th graders, but they wanted to do it and did a good job.
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8/01 BOOK: There is one source where I found modern Egyptian folk music. It's called "Songs of the Middle East" author: Monsour. This collections also has some arrangements for Orff instruments and dance instructions.
Our school is an International Studies School and we are focusing on Egypt during semester 1. I was going to do an Orff curriculum taking Egyptian Myths, dramatizing them with music, songs and movement. But having actual Egyptian music would be great.
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8/01 MUSICAL: John jacobson has a new musical called "Dig it" I looked at it
for my 3rd grade but is too hard but look GREAT for 4-6 graders.Lots of info on Egypt too!
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8/01 SONG/STORY: STM Kindergarten has this cute story and song from Egypt called "Abu Ali
Counts his Donkeys" There is this song that is a part of the story. It's
cute and there is some problem-solving in the song...seems Abu Ali is not
too bright. It's really cute
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MUSICAL: My fourth graders will be doing "It's About Time!" by Dave and Jean Perry in May. There is an Egyptian pyramid scene, Cleopatra, Ancient Greek "Olympic" statues, Roman Marketplace and games, King Arthur's Court.
Last summer when we did "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat", my brilliant high school student who did our sets (he wants to be an architect !) came up with a three dimensional pyramid which my Childrens' Choir sat on when not singing. It was ingenious and very effective.
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BOOK: "Tales of Temples & Tombs" A kids-eye View of Ancient Egypt by Donna Amorosia arr. by Lori Weidemann - Hal Leonard script and several songs. I'm not doing the whole thing -just selections
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SONG: "Go Down Moses" - hymn
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OPERA: I also include an opera of traditional style, parts of Aida when they study ancient Egypt
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5/01 BOOK: Aida - told by Leontyne Price, illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon; Voyager Boods (Harcourt Brace)
I use the this and small excerpts from the Met's production (That I borrow from the local library); the best scene is the Triumphant March when they return to tell the Pharoh of their victory! They show the pyramids being built with slaves, the Princess, etc. costuming and dance. We do a listening lesson with the March and then look at it in the video. I don't do an opera unit until the spring but use this as sort of an opener. I do use some of the songs from Temple and Tombs, but we don't do the production; just integration into their social studies.
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5/01 The picture book is titled "AIDA"; as story told by Leontyne Price; I'm
sure that Amzon.com
could get it for you as it has only been out less than five years.
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5/01 MUSICAL: "Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" This musical is by Andrew Lloyd Webber, originally written for his son's school production it was later expanded into a full musical. It is based on the biblical story of Joseph, son of Jacob, who was sold into Egyption slavery by his jealous brothers. Joseph has special talents , he can interperet dreams, and rises in power in Egypt to become the right hand man of the Pharoh. Then his brothers must come to Egypt to beg for grain as there is famine in the land and they do not recognize their baby brother who now has the power to feed them or let them starve.
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5/01 MUMMIES SONG: Also, I took a Music K8 song (Plank Rd. Publishing) called "Funny Bunny" and changed a few words and called it "Funny Mummy". Audience loved it. Kids dressed up like mummies and played blow up guitars, it was hilarious.
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5/01 MUSICAL: I did "Temples and Tombs" with 4th and 5th graders and added a few songs.~ Everyone loved it.~ For the "Pyramid" song, I took 21 boxes that our paper comes in at school and painted them tan and outlined in dark brown so they looked like blocks.~ Then I had some boys dressed in~off-white toga-type outfits build the pyramid as we sang.
We practiced building it several times, rehearsals went great and as luck would have it, for the afternoon performance it started to sway and fell off the stage and almost hit me.~~People came back for the evening performance to see if it would fall over again.~ This time the boys were nervous and didn't get it quite together so it had a few gaps, one of the boys put a box on backward so the brown outline wasn't showing, so he went back to fix it and almost knocked the whole thing over, but it stayed up.
By the way, I had the boys acting like it was really hard work and they were struggling with the boxes,~but I needed to get them off the stage so I had a bunch of Egyptian dressed girls come on and carry them off llike they were nothing.
This is one of those shows where~teacher and student's can~let their imaginations run wild.~ It was a lot of fun and extremely easy to do.~ Students, parents and other teachers really~enjoyed it.
5/01 Started with the program TALES OF TEMPLES AND TOMBS and added these songs to it. WALK LIKE AN EGYPTIAN...in a Hal Leonard Songkit INDIANA JONES THEME SONG...flashlight choreography also have someone dress like Indiana Jones w/a whip PHAROAH PHAROAH....one of students favorite
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5/01 PARODY: "Mummies don't 'low no pyramid building around here . . . no camelback riding . . . Egyptian walking . . .etc. with motions of course! It was a hoot! Brought the house down!
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5/01 PROGRAM: Our fifth and sixth grade students did and Egyptian program. For a set... a grocery store gave us about 1000 plain brown bags. Double bag each one ( this will look like a large stone) and build a pyramid for the back of the stage. I also used that for choreography during one of the songs and had students build a mini pyramid Wall on one of the songs.....(slaves in one line handing bags all the way across stage to builders for a long assembly line) That gave a lot of boy a he-man part that they loved.
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5/01 ORFF ARRANGEMENT called "The Camel Dances". It has a spoken text above three groups of Orff instruments. There is also a dance to go with it. I found it in the book "Dancing Songs" by Phillip Rhodes, published by Schott SMC 35. It looks great. Let me know if you want more info.Also, I don't know if you do any art spin-off projects, but I have done scarabs out of soap, which is great fun for the kids. Once in a while, I feel that I need to do something different, so last year we tried this one. Each child has a bar of soap (Dial works great). Draw a picture of a scarab on the top of the soap with a pencil. Cut away the edges outside of the scarab with a dull knife (like a dinner or plastic knife). The scarab then appears to be raised above the piece of soap. This was fun but a bit messy. I got pictures of various scarabs from the internet and the kids could choose to design their own.Just a few ideas.
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5/01 I just wanted to let whoever asked about Egyptian ideas that while rushing
out to buy the John Lithgow book mentioned by someone else, I found a
children's book called, Egyptian Cinderella. I didnt look at the author
but just thought you could maybe tie it in with the younger ones.
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ENGLAND
Recipe: HOT CROSS BUNS
1 cup milk, scalded 3 cups flour 1/2 cup sugar 1 tspn cinnamon
3 T melted butter 1/2 cup raisins 1/2 tspn salt 1 tspn grated orange peel
1 pkg dry yeast 1 cup powdered sugar 1/4 cup warm water 1 tspn milk
1 egg, well beaten Mix milk, sugar, butter, and salt over heat.
Shape dough into round buns and place all except one on a lightly greased cookie sheet. Cover buns on sheet and let rise for one hour. Roll the extra bun 1/4 inch thick on a floured surface. Cut into strips 1/4 inch wide, and set aside.
Make a cross on each bun with a sharp knife. Gently press a strip of dough into each cut and pinch off the ends at the base of the buns. Bake at 400 F. for 20 minutes. Mix powdered sugar and milk together to make icing. When buns are baked, remove from oven and let cool slightly. Then sprinkle icing across the top of each bun.
B: I went to the bakery just looking all around. I wanted some bread from this bakery in town.
I saw what I wanted; it was just baked done. This is what it was: it was a hot cross bun.
A: Hot Cross Buns!
C: Hot Cross Buns look just like they sound. They're a bun with an icing cross, and they're round
They're best when they're hot, they're o.k. when they're cold. The only way they're bad is when they're really, really, old.
A: Hot Cross Buns!
D: The song, "Hot Cross Buns" is from long ago, they say. 'cause who could buy a roll for just a penny today?
One for a penny, and two for the same??? The song makes no sense, but it's still fun to play!
A: Hot Cross Buns, Hot Cross Buns! One a penny, two a penny, Hot Cross Buns!
http://funnelweb.utcc.utk.edu/~thomasr/songs3.html#hcb
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SONG: (sing in sol/mi) Christmas is coming The goose is getting fat Please put a penny in the old man's hat
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12/03 FYI - While doing a song with the word Eskimo, I learned that this word means "raw savage meat eater." I actually have an Inuit student from Alaska and the word Eskimo is very offensive to people in her tribe (equivalent of the N word for African Americans). I substituted Polar Bear for this word and it worked out fine. I thought the rest of you might like to know this. - Contributed by Sarah Davies
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FRANCE
07/13 SONG (.PDF) I've managed to create the score for Je Fais De La Musique and it's available in my Dropbox. I had to create two separate files cuz Finale Notepad wouldn't let me change meter in the middle.
A section: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3431420/Je%20Fais%20De%20La%20Musique%20-A.mus.pdf
B section: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3431420/Je%20%20Fais%20De%20La%20Musique%20-B.mus.pdf-----Martha Stanley, NBCT
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12/11 HELLO SONG:
1. sing and patch beat on lap
2. sing while clapping rhythm
3. sing with solfege signs
Bonjour, bonjour. s - m, s – m
Comment televous s - l s-s-m
Tres bien, tres bien s- m, s- m
Merci beaucoup s-m-r-d
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06/06 SONG COLLECTIONS: I knew that Shilrey McRae had a couple of French songs in her collections - I just found them! They are in _Sing 'Round the World,_ volume 1- Ton Moulin; volume 2 - Sur le Pont d"Avignon.. Both have Orff accompaniments, but d'Avignon has a dance also. Either or both of these would be wonderful. -- Barbara Williams
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ALOUETTE (The Lark)
Alouette, je te plumerai. Je te plumerai la tete (2X)
Et la tete (4X)
O! Alouette, gentille Alouette, Alouette, je te plumerai. Je te plumerais le bec(the beak)
le cou(the neck), le dos(the back), les pattes(the feet)
(or you can use human body parts: le nos-nose, le nez-neck la bouche-mouth, les mains-hands, les pieds-feet)
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I was in Quebec some years ago, and due to a misunderstanding on my part, (my French not good enough) I ended up staying at a family campground (I thought it was a public place) and in the evening we had a ball singing (I had my guitar along) French tunes and this was by far the most fun and was done a raucous manner. (Just don't translate it for the young kids!)
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AU CLAIR DE LA LUNE
In the light of the moon, my friend Pierrot, Loan me your pen to write a word, My candle is out, I don't have a light. Open the door for me, for the love of God.
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"SIX LITTLE DUCKS"
j'ai connu six petits canards des gros des maigres et des bavards mais le petit canard avec la crête sur le dos
menait les autres avec un quack, quack quack quack, quack quack quack, quack quack menait les autres avec un quack, quack quack
menait les autres avec un quack, quack quack quack, quack quack quack, quack quack menait les autres avec un quack, quack quack
menait les autres avec un quack, quack quack quack,quack quackquack, quack quack menait les autres avec un quack, quack quack
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OLD MACDONALD
Old MacDonalde vieux mac donald a une ferme e-i-e-i-o et dans sa ferme , il y a des poussins e-i-e-i-o
cui-cui par ci, cui-cui par là, cui ici, cui là-bas, cui-cui partout le vieux mac donald a une ferme
e-i-e-i-o 2: des canards (coin-coin), 3: des vaches (meuh meuh), 4: des cohons (ui-ui 5: des anes (hi-han), 6: des dindons (blou-blou)
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TWINKLE TWINKLE LITTLE STAR
brille brille petite étoile, je me demande qui tu es, là-haut au dessus du monde comme un diamant dans le ciel, brille brille ma toute petite étoile, je me demande qui tu es. but in France we sing it also like that : Ah vous dirais-je maman ce qui cause mon tourment papa veut que je raisonne
comme une grande personne moi je dis que les bonbons valent mieux que la raison
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ALL THE PRETTY LITTLE HORSES
calme toi, ne pleure pas fais dodo petit bébé, ils sont noirs blancs ou gris
les six petits poneys jolis, calme toi, ne pleure pas fais dodo petit bébé
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O SUSANNA
je suis venu de l'alabama, un banjo sur mes genoux je suis venu de l'alabama revoir mon amour si doux quand je suis parti, j'ai eu la pluie, la nuit le vent était froid, le soleil me brulait à midi, je pensais à suzanna
o suzanna ne pleure pas pour moi car je reviens de l'alabama mon banjo jouera pour toi
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LONDON BRIDGE
le pont de londres tombe à l'eau (3x) le pont de londres tombe à l'eau, mademoiselle,
comment peut on le réparer (3x) comment peut on le réparer, mademoiselle,
construisons le de barres de fer (3x) construisons le de barres de fer, mademoiselle
les barres de fer vont se plier (3x) les barres de fer vont se plier, mademoiselle,
faisons le de bois et d'argile (3x) faisons le de bois et d'argile, mademoiselle
le bois l'argile vont s'en aller (3x) le bois l'argile vont s'en aller, mademoiselle
construisons le de roc bien dur (3x) construisons le de roc bien dur, mademoiselle,
hourra il tiendra bien mille ans (3x)hourra il tiendra bien mille ans, mademoiselle
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IF YOU'RE HAPPY AND YOU KNOW IT
si tu sais que tu es heureux claque des mains, (2x) si tu sais que tu es heureux, et que ça se voit dans tes yeux, (repeat 1)
si tu sais que tu es heureux tape des pieds, (2x) si tu sais que tu es heureux, et que ça s'voit dans tes yeux, (repeat 1)
si tu sais que tu es heureux crie: hourra, (2x) si tu sais que tu es heureux, et que ça s'voit dans tes yeux, (repeat 1)
si tu sais que tu es heureux fais tout ça, (2x) si tu sais que tu es heureux, et que ça s'voit dans tes yeux, (repeat 1)
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SUR LE PONT D'AVIGNON (Singing Game)
CHORUS:
Part 1 Sur le pont d'Av - ign - on L'on y dan - se, on y dan - se
Part 2: Sur le pont d'Av - ign - on On y dan - se, tous en ronde
VERSE 1: Les jeunes filles font comme ci (Girls step into the center of the circle, curtsy and return to their places.
Les gar - cons font comme ca (Then the boys go to the center, bow and return.)
ACTIONS: During part one of the chorus, everyone holds hands in a circle and skips around to the left. Reverse the
direction of the circle movement in part two.
Les soldats font comme ca center like soldiers, salute and return.
(The soldiers go like that) (chorus) - Repeat chorus actions
3. Les grenouilles font comme ci (The frogs go like this) Hop like frogs to the center and back,
Les gorilles font comme ca then thump your chests . like gorillas, in and back (chorus) - Repeat chorus actions
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Razzmatazz? They are a group in Canada that have some great music out for kids, some in French and some in English. It might be a place to start looking. We play them on Kids Internet Radio and you can find their web site at: http://www.razzmatazz.ns.ca
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GERMANY
SONG: Mein Hut it hast Drei Ecken; Try "Oh come little Children," otherwise known as "Ir Kinderlein Komet." It's simple and starting at about 4th grade it can be sung in German.BACK to Multicultural Music topics
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GREECE
07/13 Greek song/dance in Spotlight on Music called Samiotissa. (Versions on youtube as well)
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06/10 “GERAKINA,” which is a traditional Greek song in 7/8 meter (3, 2, 2). It used to be in the S/B series books. It was also good to dance to and we also used finger cymbals on the main beats, not an easy learning experience in this meter, but it was FUN! I believe I also added recorders to it.
I love this tune--very haunting. --- Louise Eddington, Muncie, Indiana E. Luane Campbell Elementary Music Instructor & Talented and Gifted intervention specialist Mt. Gilead Schools, Ohio
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06/10 “GREECE IS THE WORD: in John Jacobson's "Dig It" ". It's pretty cool, and lends itself well to a hora dance! (My sixth graders are doing this show). It goes over the reasons ancient Greece was important. --- Karen Stafford
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06/10 “SAMIOTISA” is in the 5th Grade Spotlight on Music. I used it for a program last year and it worked well. There is also a dance you can perform with the song. --- Sandy Carroll
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11/08 There is the book - "Daughter of the Earth" by Gerald McDermott - I haven't used it in awhile,but I think that's the myth you're talking about. With it, you could use any "spring" song, or perhaps a Greek folk dance. --- Becky Ventura
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I highly recommend the work of Phyllis Weikart for your ethnic dancing. Her book, "Teaching Movement and Dance" is a rich resource for dances of many nationalities. There are several Greek dances in this book which contains over 100 international dances. She has carefully analyzed movement to make it easy to teach children. Her terminology, methodology and sequencing are very useful. The accompanying CDs (purchased separately) are really well done and authentic. Weikart has produced several books on movement, all available from High/Scope Press 600 North River Street Ypsilanti, MI 48197 I personally would back off from theorizing about modes. My K-5s have enough trouble recognizing Major/Minor. But this is a great time to discuss meter....there is so much Greek music written in 5/4 or 7/8. And don't forget that great Greek word, "Opa!" , which you have to yell enthusiastically whenever you get wrapped up in Greek dancing.
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GREEK ALPHABET:
Here are the words:
Refrain:
Go Greek! (Let me hear you say) (do-te do so-so- so- so- so)
Go Greek! (Let me hear you say) (mi-re mi do-do- do- do- do)
Go Greek! (Let me hear you say) (so-fa do do-do- do- do- do)
alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon, zeta, eta,
theta, iota, kappa, lambda, mu, nu, xi,
omicron, pi, rho, sigma, tau, upsilon,
phi, chi, psi, omega (let me hear you say)
phi, chi, psi, omega (let me hear you say)
phi, chi, psi, omega (let me hear you say)
Every 3 lines carries the same melody, as listed under the 1st verse, and it just repeats ad infinitum until you want to stop. The first notes would be likeC - Bb (I'm not sure I named it correctly as te).
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UNIT: Ancient Greece (and Rome)
We are dividing grades 4-6 into 4 equal groups, each taking either Aztec, Egypt, Greeks/Romans, or China. For
our school and parent performance, each group will present the following topics for their civilization: A Creation Story- acted out and accompanied ( their own musical creations): MATH lesson ( each aided by "the Count" from Sesame Street); Alphabet Lesson; People Magazine Fashion Show ( clothing they design from their civ.);
and Marjie Van Gunten for her great ideas from her new book that should be out soon covering myth, music, traditions and much more.
Song of alphabet on Greek letters and compare to Romans Write chant using 2pt rhythmic exercises in Orff volumes
Le Melitza dance act out myths and play in Phrygian modes Choral reading of Greek poems
Keep in mind that the diatonic modes we use today (Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian, etc.) are NOT the modes of antiquity. They merely bear the names of the modes that were discussed by Plato, et al.
We know very little about those ancient Greek modes, but it's considered highly unlikely that they bear any resemblance to, for instance, the Dorian or Phrygian modes found in Volume IV of Music for Children; the Greek tuning system apparently was vastly different from our Western system of 12 "half-steps" per octave, as confirmed by instrument evidence from the period, and our modes are defined by the placement of whole and half steps. No music of ancient Greece survives, only written descriptions of each of the modes' emotional evocations. The Catholic Church assigned the Greek names to specific scales based on these descriptions in the 8th or 9th centuries AD, and even though some of the theoretical aspects of the scales have changed, we still use those names today.
I've heard teachers tell students that they're performing ancient Greek music when they're singing and playing in the Mixolydian mode, or dancing a Kalamatianos. That's just not the case.
As Jack said, the medieval modes bear little resemblance to the ancient Greek modes. The Greeks used a 4 note scale called a tetrachord with the outer two notes being fixed at a perfect 4th, and the inner two movable. The moving of the inner two notes could produce intervals of a major third and of quarter tones. They had 4 tetrachords that they used most often. As far as we know, the range of their songs was small, so they didn't often need more than a 4 note scale. In order to produce an occasional octave they combined two tetrachords together. This is the only part of their theory that we use. Our major scale is made of two disjoint tetrachords, each comprised of two whole steps and a half step. The interval between the tetrachords is a whole step. By the way, about 20 or so fragments of music still exist, but no complete
pieces. There were very comprehensive music theory treatises published back then, which is how we know what we do know. We have also learned that the music was largely secular to begin with. But, after the fall of Athens, the music became mostly liturgical. The HAM compilation has a few fragments in the front of book I.
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HAWAII
07/13 Music k8 has the song "humuhumunukunukuapuaa" about the state fish. My students love singing it. Abigail in NC
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DRUMMING: [email protected] -- Most of what you'll find is what we might call "hapa" material (Hapa means half, as in half-white or 'mixed-race.') When we talk about the music, we're referring to hapa as 'Americanized,' such as songs like 'Tiny Bubbles" or "My LIttle Grass Shack." There is a large body of traditional Hawaiian music, both dances and chants, that is relatively pure from a cultural perspective. I usually point out that what we often think of as "Hawaiian" music is often "Hawaiian-American." As a general guideline: If it incorporates chord changes, it's probably not traditional Hawaiian. Most traditional Hawaiian music is done a-cappella as a chant and may incorporate percussion of some kind.
Some of the Hawaiian-American songs that I use with children are: The Hukilau Song, Pearly Shells, Lahaina Luna, One-Paddle, Two Paddle, Pu Pu Hinu Hinu
There's a traditional chant that I often use as an opening pice called "E
Ho Mai." You can find that on YouTube, along with most of the other songs I
mentioned.. ----- Kalani Das, MT-BC
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HULA CHANT: Hawaiian Rainbows --- http://www.preschoolexpress.com/music_station04/music_station_mar04.shtml
Teaches phrases and you can add ribbons and hand movements. This is always a hit.
Make a Rhythm chart for the Hawaii 5-0 song Aloha 'Oe make up a dance using your hands. But remember the dance tells a story. “Wipe Out”: let the kids surf to their content or let them make a movement. The book *The Three Little Hawaiian Pigs and the Magic shark * is a cute book and you can add instrument sounds for the characters and act it out. Try this website www.hawaiikidsmusic.com I did a Hawaii unit a few years back and their CD Hawaii kids praise was great, but I am a private school. Try tinklaling bamboo stick dance but use pool noodles. ---- Pam Hall
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06/07 BOOK/CD: There is a CD and instruction book available of routines that are fun and very beat-based. The puili (pronounced "poo-lee" I believe) sticks are bamboo sticks slit part-way down and when tapped make a neat sound. There are lots of routines in the booklet, some individual, some partners, some for 1 stick, some for 2. I have a bunch a leis I purchased cheaply from Oriental Trading, and after spending the period learning a routine, I hand out leis to those who want to wear one and we "perform" our routine.I think the easier routines would also work with 2nd grade. -- Martha in OR
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10/04 CHRISTMAS: I would check out the movie Lilo and Stitch. I'm also thinking of a song that starts with the words, "I wanna go to Hawaii, where the palm trees sway....." I think it might be from one of John Jacobson's Christmas Musicals that I've listened to on line... haven't got a clue which one! Sorry, but maybe someone else will remember it. Also, this would provide an opportunity to write your own script with the cast having to stay in the freezing cold and dreaming about going to Hawaii. This way you could use the regular Christmas carols and maybe incorporate how that song might sound in Hawaii, or how the words would change, etc. Just a thought.... -- Contributed by Caryn Mears
CHRISTMAS: Song - "Santa Needs a Vacation" that's great as two-part or as unison.
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10/04 A couple of years ago I did "The Reindeer Hula" with my 4th and 5th grade special chorus. I don't know that it is a "hula song," but in the middle of it we had parents come up and hula with us. Fun song! -- Contributed by Sally Sorenson in ID
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08/04 PUILIS - I love puilis and yes, they're also correctly spelled pu'ilis. I've just discovered that. For a lovely and comprehensive site about Hawaii and language and music and more, go to:
== do NOT put your lips on them (the handle sections are soooo tempting to blow into);
== do not put your fingers into the top or bottom of the puili;
== hold them in your strong hand and tap your other open palm. If you do it too hard, it hurts. and lastly (and I make a big deal out of this and it works);
== do NOT rub them up and down with your hand, like stroking it cuz you'll get splinters. "Okay, now I've told you that, so if you get splinters, I'll feel sorry that you hurt, but it'll be your own fault and you'll have to wait for your mom to get the splinter out."
They play both with a moving hand and a still hand and drum, and tambourines, etc......... good prep. The rattle sound is lovely. I really do like these instruments. They are so much kinder to my ears than maracas, most especially with those younger players. If you live anywhere where bamboo or river cane grows, you can get puilis for free. Just let your community know you want some good-size bamboo.
== Find a stand of bamboo about this diameter, or a larger - larger is good: http://www.puilimaui.com/ will show you an example. This fellow sells pairs for $15 - I almost choked!
Cut the stalk-ettes and leaves off. Close to the main branch, like flush with them. Flush is best. You may need to finish cutting some of the stubble from joint areas with the saw.
Discard the cut-offs. Remove excess stalk. Eyeball the stalk. The top part may well be too small to use. Cut off and discard the portions that are not suitable. (Save them to hot-glue around picture frames or something.)
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Dennis Waring's books including Great Folk Instruments to Make and Play; and Cardboard Folk Instruments to Make and Play are always good...clear, well thought out and classroom tested. www.worldmusicpress.com -- Judith Cook Tucker, Publisher
World Music Press (ASCAP)
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04/03 Hawaiian Nursery rhymes with sound. http://www.extreme-hawaii.com/rhyme/
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Here is a website site you can explore many aspects of Hawaii from:
http://hulasource.com/-music, dance source
http://hulasource.com/ipu.html see ipu/gourd
You can even ask questions from Linda Weyman, the president of Hawaii Orff
for some very authentic advice:
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08/02 SONG: http://www.lightfantastic.org/imr/extras/av/hawaiianrollercoaster.html
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The second grade Share the Music text book has a cute song called Ku'u'la. It's about a fish and its amatomy. But this woman had all summer to think of this. If she knew she was doing this first thing in the year, why didn't she do some research? She comes to you a few days into the year and wants you to whip up something at the last minute? Oh well, that's my suggestion.
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I did a Hawaiian unit last spring and did alot of hula dancing. I used a video I puchased at Hilo Hatties called "Teaching Kids to Hula". It featured three songs, "Kaholo Hula", "Pearly Shells" and the "Hukilau Song". I'm asuming that the teacher is probably familiar with Hawaiian culture and might be able to take it from here.
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06/22/02 LUAU: We had a luau at our school. I organized a hula contest that was well received. I selected a semi-finalist out of each class. We danced to "Humu-humo-nuku-nuku-a-pu-a-a" in the 1st grade Silver Burdette series.Students who chose to go on to be a finalist wore colors (one red, one blue) and danced for the whole school. Then, they went off-stage and a red card was held up, then a blue card...they could not hear their names, only the clapping. Finally, we selected one winner...she won the "Golden Pineapple Award". As an aside, she felt she had an advantage, because her aunt taught her belly dancing lessons...
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05/02 TRIP TO HAWAII: I am having lots of fun in Hawaii this week. I have all the kids seated on the floor and announce into a microphone (not turned on) that we are about to take off on ALOHA AIR flight #1 for Hawaii. "This is your Captain speaking! Fasten your seat belts! Put your seats in an upright position and secure your trays. As you can see , we are beginning our ascent and now are flying over the beautiful blue Pacific Ocean. For your viewing pleasure, please turn your attention to our in-flight video, where you will see some of the things you will be experiencing when we reach Hawaii."
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05/02 LUAU: Our second grade does a luau every spring. We use "Hawaiian Rainbows" from Music Connection Grade 2 with motions and ribbon wands; and "Feasting by the Ocean" Grade 4 with rhythmic bamboo rattle motions to the beat. (Hit floor, outstretched hand, opposite shoulder, hand, repeat through the song.)--------------------
05/02 I can't ever do a Hawaiian unit without my favorite song........ "Humuhumunukunukuapua'aa" aka "The Fish with the Pig-Like Nose"....no kidding....it's the state fish! The kids LOVE it. I always write the name of the song on the board before we learn it (as the kids are sitting there) and they are always astounded to see the name... I make it cover the entire board. I do this in conjunction with hula music so they make up motions to tell the 'story' of the name of the fish ("Humuhumu is the fish...nukunuku is the nose....apua'aa is the pig....it's the fish with the pig-like nose!) It's always a raging success....one of those I keep in my bag of tricks for those really warm Spring weeks!
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RESOURCE: http://www.myriahs.com I just purchased the sing-along video "Keiki Calabash, Hawaii Kids' Songs" for use during our "Aloha" reading month. We're out of school today due to ice, so it's been nice to have the time for previewing the material, which looks and sounds like it will be lots of fun. The catalog which came with my order is fantastic. It includes all sorts of what we would expect as "Hawaiian stuff," but it also has a big selection of videos on Polynesian history, music, dance, entertainment, and more. One that caught my eye as a good resource for serious study was "Hawaiian Rainbow." ("The chronological history of Hawaiian music told and played by Hawaiian musicians. From the earliest chants, hymene, ukulele, steel guitar, and hap-haole to contemporary H.music.....")
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PUILI: For our reading month ("Aloha") I wanted to do puili activities
with my K-3's, but was searching for a way to prepare them.
Real puili (according to our text) are bamboo sticks fringed on
one end, but rolled newspaper fringed at the end is supposed to
work. I feel it does not make it, so I think I've come up with a
relatively sturdy alternative which is working well for a variety
of rhythm activities.
So far, the little ones are treating the puili carefully, as they know
they have to last through a lot of classes. We were able to see real
ones used in the song "Hokule'a" (Star/Sailing Canoe) on the
Keiki Calabash sing-along video, which has charming choreography
by the children who perform. At the end of the month, each child
will get to make one or two puili to take home one their "event day."
I made a pattern for each teacher and directed them to have have
the lines drawn for their kids to cut on when they came to the puili
center. We'll use large sheets of construction paper for the kids, as
oak tag for 200 students would be too expensive.
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DANCE: "Many years ago I took a class in Hawaiian dancing. Since then I have been able to teach the dances to my students. At Christmas this year First Graders learned the Christmas Luau (hula). Presently our Fourth Graders are preparing for Lei Day (May 1st) which will be celebrated on Friday, April 30th. Their Lei Day celebration will culminate their learning the 50 states in Social Studies. In Music they will learn a hula entitled "Hukilau," a Polynesian dance, and an activity using puili sticks entitled "War Dance." Fourth graders have been playing recorders throughout the year so they will also play some recorder selections including Hawaiian rainbows during the Lei Day Performance.
Number two day of Christmas my tutu gave to me 2 coconuts (knock on head ti ti ta for coconuts)
and one mynah bird on one papaya tree (motions)
Number three day of Christmas my tutu gave to me 3 dry squid (swim), 2 coconuts and one mynah bird on one papaya tree
Number four day of Christmas my tutu gave to me 4 flower leis (put imaginary lei around neck), 3 dry squid, 2 coconuts and
one mynah bird on one papaya tree
Number 5 day of Christmas my tutu gave to me 5 big fat pigs (hands out to side to gesture big), 4 flower leis,3 dry squid, 2 coconuts and one mynah bird on one papaya tree
Number 6 day of Christmas my tutu gave to me 6 hula lessons (Move hips in circle), 5 big fat pigs..four flower leis, 3 dry squid, 2 coconuts and one mynah bird on one papaya tree
Number 7 day of Christmas my tutu gave to me 7 shrimp aswimming (swimming movement outward with palms together)...etc.
Number 8 day of Christmas my tutu gave to me 8 ukeleles (strum imaginary uke)...etc.
Number 9 day of Christmas my tutu gave to me 9 pounds of poi (scoop it up in hand and to mouth)...etc.
Number 10 day of Christmas my tutu gave to me 10 cans of root beer (drink)....etc.
Number 11 day of Christmas my tutu gave to me 11 missionaries (praying hands)...etc.
Number 12 day of Christmas my tutu gave to me 12 televisions.(hands over eyes like looking thru binoculars)...etc.
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HOLLAND
CHILDREN'S SONGS: www.mamalisa.com/?p=971&t=ec&c=139
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HUNGARY
04/03 ABOUT GYPSY MUSIC: (scroll down) http://www.rootsworld.com/rw/feature/gypsy1.html
melody: c = middle c; notes in next octave higher have ' above letter name.
Sweet the evening air of May / soft my cheek caressing /
d-e f-g a-d' a / f-g f-e d d /
ti-ti ti-ti ti-ti ta / ti-ti ti-ti ta ta /
Sweet the unseen lilac spray / with its scented blessing /
d-e f-g a-d' a / f-g f-e d d /
ta ta ta ta / ta ta ta--- /
White and ghostly / in the gloom /
f e d c / f g a---- /
ta ta ta ta / ta ta ta--- /
Shine the apple- / trees in bloom /
f e d c / f g a----- /
ti-ti ti-ti ta----- //
Appletrees in bloom //
d'-d' e'-d' a---- //
I'll begin ahead of you/ you'll begin behind me /
I will stay ahead of you / and you will not find me ://
ta ta ta---/ ta ta ta--- // d' a d'---/ d' a d'---//
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ICELAND
Here's an Icelandic song that I learned from an Icelandic friend in college. I've used it in many classes and it's always a HUGE hit.
1 1 2 2 3. 2.
Mother, mother, kvi, kvi
Kvidu ek-ki, thvi--, thvi
Yeg skal lyau thyer du-li-na mi-na
Du-li-na mi-na ath dansa i
Du-li-na mi-na ath dansa i
(the 5's in the last line are below tonic)
This translation is pretty close... if there are any Icelandic speakers out there, they can correct me!!!!STORY:
The story to the song is that a child died while it was an infant and the ghost of the baby came back to visit the
mother. It is sung as a lullaby in Iceland. One of my all time favorites!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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INDIA
06/16 ARTS AND CULTURE/MUSIC: http://www.kamat.com/indica/music/
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0/16 INDIA ARTS AND CULTURE/MUSIC: http://www.kamat.com/indica/music/
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07/13 Indian song: 6th grade Share the Music, 2003 edition
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01/07 Raghupati isn't too difficult to sing; maybe have the Hindu kids sing the verses, and everyone else sing the chorus.
Lyrics: http://www.thebucknerhome.com/camp/songs/songsn.htm
Joan Bell Dakin
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BOOK: called A World of Children's Songs edited by Mary Lu Walker.
SONGS: Popular Indian Songs (midis): http://www.musicindiaonline.com/
BLANK MAP of India for worksheet http://geography.about.com/library/blank/blxindia.htm
CD: "The Best seletions from Hindustani Classical Music" (cd)
HISTORY, NOTATION, INSTRUMENTS & MUCH MORE: http://www.cuisinecuisine.com/CultureMusic.htm
Sitar and Tabla History, how to play, diagrams of the instruments
http://www.soolaba.com/instr.htm
Dictionary of terms (Indian music) http://carnatica.net/onlinedictionary/dicm.htm
Great place to search for sites on particular Indian composers: http://sify.com/carnaticmusic>
DIVALI: http://www.pitara.com/activities/colouring/20.htm
http://www.pitara.com/activities/colouring/14.htm
DUSSEHRA: http://www.pitara.com/activities/colouring/19.htm
DANCING STYLES: http://www.pitara.com/activities/colouring/1.htm
PEACOCK: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/birds/printouts/Peafowlprintout.shtml
OUTLINE MAP: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/asia/india/outlinemap/
LABELED MAP: http://www.lib.virginia.edu/area-studies/SouthAsia/maps/Images/sld012.html
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02/03 BOOK: "Folksongs from India": Voice/melody/guitar chords. Most songs have the words with corresponding paraphrases or translations. Most all have performance suggestions with drone parts and drum parts. Part 1: The Principles of Indian Music - drone, tala, percussion, melody, melodic instruments, improvisation, pronunciation. Part 2: 29 Indian folksongs: Morning Dance, Drum Song, dance with sticks, Dancing with Gourds, The Flute, Wedding Song, Gananayaka, Allah, Dance of the Mother Goddess, Krishna, Krishna's Prank, Festive Song, The Parrot Man, Come On Man!, The Palki, Chandamana!, Evening Song, Moon Dance, The Way of Life, Shiva's Dance. This book is not really for very young children. MUFA2111 $10.95
The introduction has information on traditional Indian folk songs. Titles: Monkey Song, Dance, Raz (stick dance), The Elephant, Ram Ram, Sh! Said the Sparrow, Krishna, Rum Dee Dum, Lovely Lovely Moon. MUKI0149 $9.95
West Music: 1-800-397-9378
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6/01 Since music is such an integral part to the Asian culture you will also want to bookmark the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/nso/asian/culture/instrum.html"
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DWALI: Dwali from India should be lots of fun! I understand the celebrants flick paint on to each other. (Guess why our school decided against it.) Also, Day of the Dead from Mexico would be interesting since you could use Venn diagrams to compare/contrast it with Halloween. Let us know how it goes!
It is a Festival of Lights, occuring this year on October 30 (changes according to the lunar calendar). According to my reading, the lights symbolize prosperity and losing ignorance. At our local children's museum last year, in honor of Diwali, we made
simple oil lamps. They were made out of clay (shaped like shallow bowls with a small lip at one end), and baked in a kiln.
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INDONESIA
INDONESIA
07/05 RESOURCE: A good resource for the music and dance of Southeast Asia is the American Gamelan Institute - gamelan is the name of the "orchestras" of Indonesia and the music of Thailand and Sri Lanka are similar with xylophones, flutes, gongs, and drums. You can contact AGI atwww.gamelan.org.
I also have a favorite picture book "Ayu and the Perfect Moon" by David Cox. about being a dancer in Bali (a neighboring island to Sumatra) It's lovely. -- Joan Bell Dakin
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09/03 GAMELAN music is a traditonal Indonesian art form. This type of music is used to accompany the shadow and stick puppet shows put on in Bali and Java. Here is one explanation of Gamelan music taken from http://www.ancient-future.com/bali.html A gamelan is an ensemble normally composed primarily of percussion. In Bali, orchestras of tuned gongs, bronze kettles, bronze metallophones, bamboo xylophones, drums, cymbals and flutes fill the night air with animated music. Melodic parts interlock, divided in such a way that musicians play alternate notes to form the melody line. These interlocking parts, known as kotèkan, require cooperation and a keen sense of rhythm to perform. The two parts of a kotèkan, which are thought of as male and female, are known as nyangsih and polos. The main accents of the nyangsih part are usually on the offbeat, while the main accents of the polos part are usually on the beat. An Orff ensemble is sort of a gamelan orchestra, in that we mix wood and metal barred instruments. You can do a google search and come up with many sites for Gamelan. Here are two: www.gamelan.org/ http://www.joglosemar.co.id/gamelan.html This one has great pictures. -- Contributed by Dianne Park
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BOOK: Indonesian Mouse Deer Fables, retold by Margaret Muth Alibasah, Pub. Penerbit Djambatan, isbn 979 428 0127
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IRAQ, IRAN
RESOURCES
Roots and Branches--book and CD
Microsoft Musical Instruments--CD rom
Voices of Forgotten Worlds--Book and CD/tape
Smithsonial Folkways if you have time 800-410-9815
Musical Instruments- Comprehensive Dictionary by Sybil Marcuse
Musical Instruments of the World-An Illustrated Encyclopedia-ed. Ruth Midgley
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IRELAND
06/10 SONG LIST: An Irish Blessing, Castle Dromore The Girl I Left Behind, Irish Washerwoman (instrumental--great for dancing), Marching Home; Johnny Has Gone For a Soldier; Molly Malone , O Danny Boy(Londonderry Air), Paddy Works on the RR , Rakes of Mallow , Rattlin' Bog, The Wearing of the Green; When Johnny Comes, Who Threw the Overalls in Mrs. Murphy's Chowder was written by George L. Giefer in 1898 and originally recorded by Edward M. Favor in 1901. It was later recorded by Bing Crosby in 1956. [Leroy Anderson has a fantastic Irish Suite that includes 6 of these songs. You could likely find it on itunes--Jelani has a great recording of this on his Leroy Anderson collection (the disc titled Blue Tango). It's a great piece of music, or actually a medley of exciting Irish traditional tunes];
06/07 LEPRECHAUNS: http://www.songs4teachers.com/irelandinfo.htm#leprechaun
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06/07 WEBSITES:
http://www.history.com/minisites/stpatricksday
http://wilstar.com/holidays/patrick.htm
http://www.theholidayspot.com/patrick/historyofpatrick.htm
http://www.st-patricks-day.com/aboutireland_history.asp
http://edition.cnn.com/EVENTS/1996/st_patrick/history/index.html
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06/06 My students love the Bridge of Athlone, which is in one of the New England Dance Masters books/CDs. - Julie Jones
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06/06 IRISH JIGS -Information and explanations: http://www.nonvi.com/sm/footwork.html#irish
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06/06 “EININI” in unison is Roots and Branches found at Music K8 Marketplace: http://www.musick8.com/
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CD-JIGS: K-2 Called (I think) “Folk Dance for Fun” that has an Irish Jig on it that I use with grades K-2 (tune is Irish Washerwoman).
There's another CD of the Clancy Children with lots of Irish songs on it. I got it a couple of years ago, and I think at some point they were going to put out a book with the score and game directions.
My kids love the singing game Wallflowers. It almost becomes hypnotic after a while. Gives you an opportunity to talk about how people used to die from the measles, which also kind of goes along with Cockles and Mussels ("she died of a fever...").
There's a dance on one of the New England Dancing Masters CDs called Bridge of Athlone that my older kids love to do.
Paddy Works on the Railway is Irish/American. Shule Aroon aka Johnny Has Gone For a Soldier.
Einini is a gorgeous Irish lullaby, simple enough for first graders to sing beautifully.
Frosty Weather is a singing game.
I believe the Allee Allee O is also an Irish singing game.
The Wee Falorie Man is Irish.
I cheat with my little ones and sing Michael Finnigin with them in March.
McNamara's Band.
You could play Henry Cowell's The Banshee and talk about the Irish legend. -- Julie Jones in Williamsburg, VA
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06/06 RIVERDANCE - I used the [this] video which there is probably a new one out now for introducing Celtic music then incoporated some of the dance steps to Celtic piece of music on CD's. EX: A section move individually around the room sideways, B part mimic some steps in place......you get the idea-of course use lively music. For ballad style Celtic music I used the story of The Unicorn. Can't remember which group sings this. Just a note on Cockles and Mussels-I was used to singing this slow , easy and soft but I went to a music conference session on Irish Music from a professor that studied Irish music and was told that this was a street Vendor song and street vendors were a brash and hearty lot and sang this song with gusto hollering Cockles and Mussels when it was in the song!!! -- Johanna Beebe
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GAME: We pass potatoes to “Irish Washerwoman” on St. Patrick’s day.
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08/04 NATIONAL ANTHEM: http://homepage.tinet.ie/~nobyrne/ireland2.htm
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SOUNDTRACK: - If you are looking for traditional with a little twist there are the show soundtracks: Riverdance, Lord of the Dance, and Feet of Flames.
More traditional but still up beat would be Chieftains- they usually have a great mix of instrumental and vocal.
If you want more vocal you have groups like the Clancy's ( great children's medley ontheir Carnegie Hall album, the Rovers ( The Unicorn song by Shel Silverstein is on one of their albums), Tommy Makem, etc.
There are also numerous albums by CLANNAD ( Enya's family) which vary from traditional to pop in English and Gaelic, and of course Enya and Loreena Mckennitt. I also love the group GREAT BIG SEA- they are in the Celtic tradition from Newfoundland.
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The group of young men touring here now called Danu is fabulous. They have one or two albums out on Shanachie. Quite traditional sound, amazing instrumentalists, great selection of songs, most in Gaelic.
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SONGS: The Girl I Left Behind Me, Paddy Works on the Railroad
Too ra loo ra loo rah. Too ra loo ra lie. Too ra loo ra loo rah. That's an Irish lullaby.
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ITALY
06/14 SONG: Tiritomba is a great one rhythms, has a good part for xylophones
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02/02 SONG: The Italian song that comes to mind for me is Dormi, Dormi,
Last year my 4th and 5th small choir sang La Dona
Mobile. It isn't as hard as you might think.
This is a little tongue-in-cheek, but how about "That's Amore?" You
know---when the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, ......
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SONG: Last year I did Santa Lucia with my 4th grade and they did a great jov. We
sang it in Italian with no problems (of course, I am Italian so it made the
explanation a bit easier) The song is basically about a little boat on the
open sea. The kids really loved doing it.
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SONG: VENITQUATTRO GATTI BLU MK8 (Plank Road Publishing) Sept/Oct 1999 issue (vol 10). Page 74-75.
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"DO, A DEER" in ITALIAN
DO SE DO UNA COSA A TE (do se douna cosza teh)
RE E'IL RE CHE C'ERA UN DI' ([with the latin "rrrrrr"]re el re ke cheraun dee)
MI E7'IL MI PER DIRE A ME (mi el mi per direha meh)
FA LA NOTA DOPO IL MI (fa la nota dopoil mi)
SOL E'IL SOL CHE E'IN FRONTE A ME (sol el sol ke infronte a meh)
LA SE PROPRIO NON E'QUA (la se proprio non equa)
SI SE NON TI DICO NO (si se non ti diko no)
E COSI' SI TORNA AL DO (e cozi si tornal do)
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Do se do..... I give something to you
Re e'il re....The king that at one time was
Mi e'il me....Me, ask me.
Fa............Fa the note after Mi
Sol...........The sun that shines on me.
La............Is over there not over here
Si............Si, I'm not saying no.
Do............and Si returns to Do
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JAPAN
06/10 ORFF ARRANGEMENT OF SAKURA:
http://www.makingmusicfun.net/htm/f_printit_free_printable_sheet_music/sakura-sakura-orff.htm (scroll down to Orff arrangements)
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11/08 SAKURA: There is a lovely arrangement of Sakura in Gerard van der Geer's "Marimba Mania". This also has "la Bamba", and a really good Tango that kids love to do. More details on our sales list, and click the title. You can get this via John's Music..... http://www.vosa.org/paul/sales_folder/marimba_mania.htm/
Also we have a large number of songs and resources at...
http://www.vosa. org/resourcesHom e/ -- John Handley
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12/07 BOOK: Try the book: "The Drums of Noto Hanto" I used components of an old drum set set on various stands made from PVC pipe, and used 3/4 inch PVC pipe sticks (with the ends rounded off. -- David Thaxton
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STORY: I have done the Spider Weaver tale, both with students and presented at CMEA in 2006. I used melodies from the Japanese Orff-Schulwerk and adapted them, wrote a script for students to act out/pantomime, and created props and costumes. -- Barbara Williams
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12/07 LEGENDS: http://www.quora.com/What-are-some-beautiful-Japanese-myths-stories-and-fables
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12/07 INSTRUMENTS: Traditional Japanese musical instruments:
www.pbs.org/empires/japan/instruments.html -- Deanna Milligan
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12/07 DRUMMING: I have taught simple Japanese Taiko drumming patterns to 4th and 5th graders, incorporating rituals and discipline. Not having the big drums, I used Remo hand drums - the bigger the better. (I had 20 drums) One student holds the drum steady, while the other plays the patterns with felt mallets, using big gestures. So if you know any Taiko pieces, add that to the experience. There are also some great Taiko sources online. -- Joan Bell Dakin
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06/06 INSTRUMENT: KOTO http://koto.sapp.org/kotospec/
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ROUND: I believe "Hotaru Koi" is from Japan and is authentic. -- Becky in NH
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10/05 SONG: 100 Cranes song: This [song] is absolutely beautiful. "Sadako and The Thousand Paper Cranes" Michiko I. Pumpian 1995 Published by Dream Come Through Publications - Becky Luce
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10/05 "SAKURA": My fifth grade girls did a very effective performance to Sakura one time- and it was not choreographed! We practiced doing lots of shadowing in foursomes (students take places in a diamond shape), then practiced shadowing each other- the leader has her back to the others , then turns towards another student and that person becomes the leader. I'm sure you've all done something sinilar. Anyway, we practiced that in class as the boys played the Orff accompaniment. On the performance day , the girls all wore black and used pink scarves. The resulting choreography looked fabulous --and it was really just improvised on the spot! Try it! -- Dianne Park President, San Diego American Orff Schulwerk Association - Visit our SDAOSA website at http://www.sbsd.k12.ca.us/~slloyd/index.htm
10/05 SAKURA: The dance version that I usually do is with long ribbon streamers in pink and green.: Hands by side...step forward right close left, step forward right close, (2 bars) "Make your tree grow"......slowly lift up hands with streamers and slowly drop to the side.(2 bars) part two : lift right hand streamer sideways slowly and over head to touch left hand at side. (2bars) lift right hand slowly over head to return to right side (2 bars) slow step forward moving arms side to side like branches of the tree (4 steps then a slow turn to face the other way. Repeat again
I put crepe pink flowers with little green crepe leaves in the girls hair. Girls and boys wear white shirts.-- Sue Michiels
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M. 1-2: Cherry bloom, (2x)
3-4: Gently swaying in the air
5=6: Sweet the fragrance everywhere
7-8: Petals soft and colors bright
9-10: Come and see (2x)
11-12: Come and see the cherry bloom
Nioizo izuru Izaya, Izaya, Mi _ni_ ykari
Introduction: hands in prayer, nod head L then R
M 1: Move R. arm across chest and over head in graceful arc and step to R
M 2: Repeat with L. arm and foot
M 3-4: Repeat M. 1-2
M 5-6: Turn to R raising both arms to R; Look back over R. shoulder, hold post
M 7-8: Turn to L as M. 5-6
M 9: Face forward, hands form sun over head
M 10: Hands in prayer, bow head
M 11-12: Repeat M 1-4 -- Sandy Toms
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07/05 "SAKURA" is perfect for a "fan dance" -- you get the paper fans from Oriental Trading Company very inexpensively. Each phrase of music can be choreographed by the kids. Simple movements like fluttering and circles can be explored first by imitation with you, and then decide together how to choreograph the music. Kids can sit "Oriental style" holding one fan in each hand. (They sit on their heels -- not crosslegged) They should not sit too close together as the fans are paper and if they knock into each other will tear. -- Becky Ventura
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08/04 WEBSITE: http://www.gpb.org/peachstar/irasshai/homepg.htm
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04/03 KAGOME GAME: I've used the Japanese singing game "Kagome" ("Wild Bird") with Orff instruments in a concert for 1st graders. It's la-based pentatonic so only needs a bordun, but it's easy to layer in different colors and add unpitched percussion as the performers age permits. For older students, I'd probably teach it in Japanese, although my 1's only did it in English.
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05/02 My 2nd graders sang SAKURA representing Japan earlier this year. We sang it through twice, with the girlss singing the first time while the boys accompanied them on tone bells, then the 2nd time the boys sang while the girls did a fan dance (which someone on this list so graciously sentme by snail mail - I can't find my file at the moment, so step forward and accept your kudos!). We used paper plate fans, which the art teacher helped us decorate with water colors.
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01/02 FAN DANCE: Last year we made up a "fan dance" to go with Sakura when we performed that same musical. We used paper plates cut in half for the fan...found gold
ones at a party store.
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01/02 SAKURA: I recently taught "Sakura" as part of a multicultural year-long tour of the
world of music. There is a website that plays the melody several times,
each using a different Japanese instrument.
www.japanesegifts.com/sakura.htm
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10/01 RAIN SONG: "Ame Ame" (Rain Song) is a wonderful Japanese song and is truly traditional.
I haven't met a Japanese person that didn't learn this song in childhood.
You can find it in many series and also in Wee Sing Around the World. "Haru
Ga Kita" (Springtime Has Come) is also terrific. Raffi sings this one, as
well as in many series books.
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FAN DANCE: Sakura Fan Dance - Two Fansa
I use the ones from Oriental Trading Co. About $2.00 a dozen. They have cherry blooms on alot of them. I think "Sakura" translates to cherry bloom. I used to make fans with black paint for the branches and sponge on pink paint for the blossoms, when dry, then fold and staple, but I got moved out of my room to the stage, so don't do art projects anymore.
Dance can be done kneeling or standing When introduction starts, slowly lower fans from face-
SAKURA ---- head is turned to right and one nod
SAKURA ----- head is turned to left and one nod
YA YO I NO --- right fan rainbow to right
SO RA WA, --- right fan wrist twists so fan is heading down underhand rainbow back to starting position
MI WA TA SU -- left fan rainbow to left
KA GI RI --- left fan wrists twists so fan is heading down underhand rainbow back to starting position
KA SU MI KA
KU MO KA ------ both fans - same time --- do just opposite of phrase 2 & 3
underhand rainbow wrist twist upper rainbow end with fans in front of face- then flutter down to waist
NI O I ZO
I ZU RU --- flutter fans one goes up to right, one goes down to left eyes look to up fan slowly bring back
I ZA YA, I ZA YA, --- do above the opposite way when brought back cross fans in front
MI NI YU KAN --- fans are crossed flutter as you bow from the waist raise up slowly
say "SAYONARA"
BTW - I had no idea it would be this hard to write out fan directions You probably can't tell what I'm talking about. sorry, I think I left something out, but use it as a springboard etc.
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BOOK: I can recommend "Favorite Songs of Japan" available for $13.95 from Music In Motion, P.O. Box 833814 Richardson, TX 75083-3814
SAKURA: found in the 4th grade book from the World of Music series (cherry bloom) - pronounced as written
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BOOK: In library: "Children's Songs from Japan," by Florence White and Kazuo Akiyama.Pub by the Edward B. Marks Music Corporation, New York, 1960.
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SAKURA TEXT: Sa-ku-ra! Sa-ku-ra! ya yoi no so ra wa Mi wa-ta-su ka-gi-ri Ka-su-mi ka ku-mo ka; Ni oi zo i-zu-ru I-za-ya! I-za-ya! Mini yu-kan.
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FIREFLY SONG: Another wonderful firefly song is "Hotaru Koi," a Japanese round. You can find it in "Fire Within" by Libana (the one with the beautiful blues/reds/yellows swirly quilt onthe cover)
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SONG: Naka Naka Hoi:
f f f f g f f f f g
Na-ka, na-ka hoi! So-to, so-to hoi!
a a a a a c a g
Na-ka so-to, so-to na-ka
f f f f g
Na-ka, na-ka hoi!
In, in hoi! (hoi=exclaimation!) Out, out hoi! In out out in In, in hoi!
Note: In=inside Out=outside
Repeat the song with opposite words: Soto, soto, hoi! Naka, naka, Hoi! Soto naka naka soto. Soto, soto hoi!
Find as many ways to show "out" and "in" as your can to make this a challenging musical game. Try working this out with pairs of children, then
concentric circles. Arms can go in and out...feet...heads......etc. The children must be very careful on line 3. Have fun!
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JEHOVAH WITNESS
JEHOVAH WITNESSES believe in the complete Bible and take it literally. There is nothing wrong with that. However, taking the Bible literally has one major draw back. In reality Jesus was not born when we celebrate his birth. As in so many other Christian holidays, it was tacked on to an existing pagan holiday ( in this case Saturnilia) to replace the pagan holidays with Christian holidays by the early Catholic Church. Remember that the shepherds were in the fields witht their flocks. the only time this happens is when the sheep are lambing. The reason the sheperds are out there is to protect them from predators. Thus being the case "Christmas" is not really Jesus' birthday. It is more likely in the early Spring. This is why the JV's will not celebrate Christmas. Depending on how orthodox they are will depend on what you can get away with. A song that is talking about Jesus's birth without mentioning the time of year or Christmas (like Away in The Manger) that are scriptually based are usually not a problem. Just ask the parents if there is a problem.
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JEWISH CULTURE
ABOUT: Hanukkah: is based on the lunar calendar (this year begins Dec. 24) and celebrates the miracle of the oil lasting 8 days (there was only enough oil for one night) allowing the Jews to rededicate the temple won back from the Greek army.
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06/09 DANCE: Just four basic moves to learn - ABCD, 2 per verse. After these are solid, you could ask kids to suggest changes. This is from our fifth grade.
Intro: Start in circle facing in, alternating blue and green scarves. (Speech about "you git what you git and you don't throw a fit", and "keep it out of your hair!") All crouch down, balancing, holding scarves in rectangle position in front of face, eyes showing.
Verse 1: A: One child starts the "wave" - standing up until all are standing, gently waving their rectangle scarf. Freeze with rectangle spread out just below eyes on "shalom, shalom". B: "le hitrahot" standing in "eyes" position, and slowly turn.
Verse 2. Turn to walk clockwise position. (How do you do this? I run around the middle of the circle to show them which direction we're all going...) Class dramatically moves arm to hold "outside arm" at 2:00 position with scarf hanging down. C: Walk slowly. D: "til we meet..." turn toward scarf hand and gently turn around while twirling scarf over head.
Verse 3. Blue scarves go to the middle and crouch down and do verse 1 movements (or could assign a leader that blues follow to improv some movements together.) Green scarves continue Verse 2 C,D movements in outer circle - walking with arms at 2:00 position, etc.
Verse 4.Green goes to the middle and crouches down to do verse one movements while blue moves to the outside to do 2:00 movements of verse 2.
Conclusion: Inside circle does "s" movements and then everyone kneels down, looks down and moves scarf dramatically over head towards floor. --- Linda Z from Florida
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12/07 STORY: One of my favorites is "The Magic Dreidels" by Eric Kimmel [and]The song "I have a little dreidel" would be great to also add singing and maybe some choreograpy? Here is a link to the directions for the dreidel game.
MANY PAGES ABOUT CHANUKAH: http://www.holidays.net/chanukah/dreidel.html
Here is a link for some fingerplays
http://www.theholidayzone.com/hanukkah/action.html --- Ann Berman in Boston
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01/07 Hanukah's Child by Linda Swears is a beautiful choral piece. Nice opportunity for a few soloists, as well. -- Artie Almeida
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01/07 BULLETIN BOARD: The Colors Of Hanukkah (by Nancy Stewart) PPT by Terese Dayton
http://www.musicbulletinboards.net/downloadspage.htm
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SONG: "Al Shlosha" is taken from the Hebrew law......I believe the publisher is Boosey & Hawkes; (no dance, but a gorgeous song!), the hora is the traditional Jewish dance; "Dodi Li" is another Hebrew song, also published by Boosey & Hawkes and taken from the Song of Songs. -- Contributed by Kerryn Oliver
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SONG: My all-time favorite is "Erev Shel Shoshanim," "Night of Roses."
Jim Phypers has a recorder site where you can hear and download it at http://www.solarhaven.org/RecorderMusic.htm
http://www.twilightbridge.com/hobbies/festivals/hanukkah/midi.htm
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02/03 COSTUME: I remember seeing my nephew's "costume" for a Hannukah play. It was a simple blue tunic with one of the symbols from the dreidl on it - in this particular play, there were 4 children, one for each symbol.
Girls: doilies on heads or circlets (wreaths) made of blue or white sparkly garland. (Go for blue and white to contrast with the red/green of Christmas)
Here's how: Yarmelkes:
You will need: felt squares (enough for all your boys), glitter glue or brick-brack, sturdy craft glue, scissors, coffee can for pattern, and pen/pencil.
~ using a med size coffee can, trace circle on felt (or make template on poster board).
~ cut four slits from the north, south, east, and west points of the circle but stopping approx. 21/2-3" from the center.
~ overlap the flaps made by your slits and glue just the overlapping corners.
~ add zig zag line around the base, dots, trim, whatever... This will help hold it together and will add a nice design.
~ attach to slippery caucasian hair with Scotch Two-Way Poster Tape. Most other boys won't need the tape.
"I find the "shawl" idea disrespectful - and I am a reform jew.
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MAKE A DREYDL
http://familycrafts.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.billybear4kids.com%2Fholidays%2Fhanukkah%2Fpattern.htm
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CHANUKAH FAVORITES is a wonderful tape full of a varied collection of songs about this holiday. "Burn Little Candles" I easily adapted to Orff instruments; the songs are fun, they come with a booklet, dance instructions, explanations, ideas $15.00 (postage included) Judy Caplan Ginsburgh P.O. Box 12692, Alexandria, LA 71315-2692
I have a little dreidel I made it out of snow but when I looked last summer my dreidel!! Where'd it go??!
I have a little dreidel I made it out of wood but I set it on fire - now it don't spin so good.
I have a little dreidel, I made it out of bread, It looked so very yummy, I ate it up instead! Oh dreidel...
I have a little dreidel, I made it out of glass, My mom says I can spin it, but only on the grass!
I have a little dreidel, it's made out of a shoe, It smells a little funny, but then what can you do?
I have a little dreidel, I made it out of fur, It was warm and cute and cuddly, and the spinning made it purr!
I have a little dreydle, I made it out of plastic I put a gimel on every side, that dreydle is fantastic!
I have a little dreydle, I made it out of soap I carved a shin on every side, why am I such a dope?
I have a little dreydle, I made it out of glue The baby tried to spin it, and now she's spinning too
I have a little dreydle, I made it out of gin That dreydle didn't turn at all, but the room began to spin
You ain't nothin' but a dreidle spinnin' all the time (2) You ain't never spun a dreidle till you've spun one of mine
You got four Hebrew letters - nun gimel hey shin (2) So be a good dreidle and always let me win
They said that you was plastic, but that was just a lie (2) Just give you a twist and watch that dreidle fly!
I thought some people might find these useful - some were written years ago by Pizmon - Columbia University's Jewish a
cappella group; others were composed by 5th- and 6th graders this year in Hoboken.
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CANON: "Hashiveynu"- it's a canon that's absolutely gorgeous. I think that there is a published version arranged by Doreen Rao. A variant appears in the Libana book as a Russian lullabye and I also learned it at KMTI as the "LTDR Canon"
HOW TO PLAY DREIDEL
Gimmel means gantz or "all." Player takes everything in the pot.
Heh means halb or "half." Player takes half of what is in the pot.
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KOREA
SONG: "Arirang "is the only Korean song I know...but it is well loved and much sung in Korea, so it should be a good one. Its in many books , you shouldn't have trouble finding it. ---- Dianne Park
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SONG: I have a lovely little song called "The Little White Boat" that I'll be playing in a guitar recital with a young Chinese student in a few weeks. His mother says it is actually Korean, although they sang it in China when she was growing up. I found numerous YouTube recordings of it in both Chinese and Korean. I'm including a link to a site that includes an mp3 of the tune, the printed tune, and the Korean lyrics. It would be easy to add a simple accompaniment to it if it would work for your student.
http://snipurl.com/1d3tr4 ---- Connie Herbon
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KWANZAA
12/07 SONG: Good song by Greta Pederson: "Kwanzaa is Here:
http://www.songsforteaching.com/
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SONG: Free -http://www.nancymusic.com/ (see “Holidays” )
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POWERPOINT: http://www.pppst.com/index.html
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Begins the day after Christmas and celebrates 7 principles of life in a social , community which are Unity, Self determination, Collective work & responsibility, Cooperative economics, Purpose, Creativity, and Faith in the nation of people. See *Program Ideas (go to 'HOME' for this file) for information and ideas.
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LEBANON
Children's Songs: http://www.mamalisa.com/?p=397&t=ec&c=66
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MEXICO
06/16 BATE, BATE: "Bate, bate, chocolate, con arroz y con tomate"
(Hold hands like thumb wrestling, right with right, left with left, one on top of the other making big stirring motions like there is a big pit of melted chocolate between the partners
"Uno, dos, tres, CHO! Uno, dos, tres, CO! Uno, dos, tres, LA! Uno, dos, tres, TE!"
(Pat lap on numbers, and partner clap on CHO, CO, LA & TE)
"Chocolate! Chocolate! Chocolate! Chocolate!" Spin partner around a couple of times.
Find a new partner. ---- D. Brian Weese
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11/08 MARIACHI MUSIC: The best book, I think is the instrumental method book would be Mariachi Majestry by Kjos (sic).It goes over the styles and technique. Chavez Academy in Pueblo, Colorado starts the violin and guitar players as young as they can. I have seen second grade students on violin and guitar. Last year the Imagination Celebration sponsored a Mariachi Workshop in Colorado Springs .They might have another one in 2008. There was an elementary school in the Denver area that had a mariachi program. The music did have to be arranged. The method Mariachi Philaharmonic (sic) have string arrangement of the music. -- Doug in Colorado
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MYTH as a PROGRAM: At one of my schools, the 1st and 2d graders acted out a story: "HOW MUSIC CAME TO THE WORLD." by Hal and Carol Ober. Along with 3 songs, it took about 15 minutes and was a nice departure from the usual fare of 3 songs (+ 3 songs with the Spanish teacher) or a musical. The story was read (I abbreviated the text) by narrator and I inserted single spoken lines (in Spanish) for each of the characters (with one exception - Questzacoatl had 2 more lines). The children choreographed a 'bridge to the sky' and a maze through which Questzacoatl had to travel when he arrived at the Sun. The book can be found at the library and I'm glad to share the lines I added for the characters, though you may want to write your own to accommodate more children. You could easily write Orff parts to be played during the story representing each of the characters (there are 6 but I added a character).
Before the story: It's a Small World (English and Spanish)
During the story: "La Tarara" in Spanish (kids loved this song, esp. the last chorus which is sung faster) I wrote an Orff arrangement. After the story: It's a New Day (Teresa Jennings)
I used a black and white drawing found on line: http://karenswhimsy.com/aztec-art.shtm - for the program cover--- Sandy Toms
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AZTEC POETRY: http://www.carnaval.com/dead/aztec_poetry.htm
12/07 CUP GAME: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ft6Kg7S-LBE
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06/07 SMITHSONIAN: “Corridos” (Ballads) History, Timeline, Videos, Information, Artists
http://www.corridos.org/
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06/06 (Mexico) Christmas around the world (Click on country at top): http://northpole.net/world.htm#IRELAND
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JINGLE BELLS (en Espanol)
Con mi bella Susanna Salimos de paseo
Vibraba la alegrella En nuestros corazones
Aquella tarde fria Tan llena de emociones
coro:
Cascabel cascabel Musica de amor
Dulces horas gratas horas juventud en flor
Cascabel(2) Tan sentimental
No dejes cascabelito De repiquetar (repliquetear ?)
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SPAIN-MEXICO
I checked out "Cantos para Jugar" from a local library. I've never ordered it because it is printed in Mexico, but with a little scrounging, you probably could. It is a great resource. I am teaching a week long music camp in Spanish in August, and it is one of my primary resources.
How about some Mexican Carols, (even a procession where all the parents can dress up like Bethlehem Townspeople--- I have two songs for this if you're interested. Its called "Las Posadas". They go looking for an inn. The whole thing ends up with a bang--literally; a piñata. See also *Program Ideas & *Theme Music. (go to 'HOME' for these files)
His book, "De Colores" costs about $17.00 and has the music written out.
/ / l. / l. / / / / / / / / /
s' s' d r m r d d s' s' d d s' s'
Al ci tron de un fan dan - go san - go san - go sa - ba
l. / l. / / / / / / / / / l
s' s' d r m r d d s' s' d s' d m d
Re de la ran - de - la con-su tri - ki tri-ki tron.
On the first measure, each child in the closed circle picks up own 2 sticks & places them on the floor in front of the person to the right. (noted as "pass" in score)
In the 2d measure, each child picks up the sticks which have just been placed on the floor in front of the child (noted in score as "pickup")
This continures until the last 2 measures at which point each child taps the sticks just picked up on the floor for the 1st beat of the measure. For the second beat, the sticks are crossed and tapped on the floor. For the last measure, the sticks are uncrossed and tappped. They are now ready to be passed on thesyllable "tone" in the first measure. Citron is a lemon, word are nonsense.
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THE LITTLE STICK (I've used this one with 2-3 three year olds, but if older they can jump to the beat in clever ways.) meter is 4/4 and song begins on downbeat
/ / / / / / / / l l l Z
s m d m s m d m s l s
1. Jump a - cross the lit - tle stick the way I do;
f r t r f r t r f s f
2. Back & forth a - cross the stick it's fun to do.
4. Back and forth across the stick, I'm tired aren't you?
2.Brinca la de vuel-ta yo ya me canse.
(repeat these 2 lines)
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AZTEC BOOK: (ideas from Marjie Van Gunten-ask her about her wonderful book) Aztec myth lesson, Creation of Music
"All of You Was Singing" Richard Lewis (picture book) Mayan Lullabies Story basis for improv. Aztec song poems
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SPANISH SONGS: http://www.ingeb.org/cates.html
Unfortunately not all the songs come with melodies, and there'l no fast way of knowing which are the children's songs. Maybe you (or someone else on the list) could take a look try and recognize a few titles. Here's one
interesting-looking example I grabbed kind of quickly:
http://www.ingeb.org/songs/pandevio.html
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MUSLIM CULTURE
ALL ABOUT: http://www.islamicity.com/ramadan/
As the month of Ramadan goes past, The Muslims every day do fast.
No food, no drink, sunrise to set And no bad deeds , now don't forget.
To needy people everywhere We give them money, food and care.
And finally after thirty days We all give thanks and lots of praise.
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NEW ZEALAND
www.maori.org.nz/
This website has the sheet music, translation and information on the song: http://folksong.org.nz/epapa/
-- Denise Gagne www.musicplay.ca Musicplay - the Sequential Text Series
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LEGENDS:
http://eng.mataurangamaori.tki.org.nz/Support-materials/Te-Reo-Maori/Maori-Myths-Legends-and-Contemporary-Stories
FOLK SONGS (lyrics, midis): http://folksong.org.nz/waiata.html
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SCANDINAVIA [NORWAY, SWEDEN & DENMARK]
07/11 SCARF IDEA: How about a cool scarf routine to an instrumental version of the
Norwegian national anthem? --- RaeAnna Goss
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SONG: There's a cute octavo called Oleana. It's really cute. I don't know the
composer, but I'm sure you can find it at JW Pepper. ---- Beth Jahn
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01/07 VIDEO CLIP: There is a great scene in Ingmar Bergman's film, "Fanny and Alexander" in which the family takes hands and winds its way through their large home, singing the song. The first line goes "Nu er det jul igen, Nu er det jul igen"
"Fanny and Alexander" is a wonderful movie - can you tell that it's one of my all-time favorites? -- Steve Daigle
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10/04 SONGBOOK: Songs-Games-Movement Activities for Teaching Music to Young Children
Author/ Composer: Erling Bisgaard, Gulle Stehouwer.
Edited and adapted from the Danish by Tossi Aaron. /based on Scandinavian Folklore (OUT OF PRINT BUT EASY TO FIND ONLINE)
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SONG: I have a Swedish song (with the dance) arranged for Orff instruments in each of the following books of mine: “Merry Christmas”, “Music From Many Lands” and “Songs For One World.” -- Alice Olsen http://www.aliceolsen.com
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04/03 PHOTOS: Free photos of Norway to download: www.imageshop.no/fjordnorge
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02/03 SONG: Norwegian Traditional Song "Bae Bae Lille Lam"
(/ = very short vowel, Gr. = German "U")
Yes Yes Yes dear child, my whole body's full.
Sunday's coat to father, and Sunday's skirt to mother
And two pair of socks for tiny little brother.
Jah, jah, sheeareh bahn Yeig har kroppin foohl. m
Sondag's frakk teel far og Sondag's frakk teel moor
Og too par strmper teel bitte leele broor.
l f f f s__ s / f r r r m___ d
l f s m m / f t' t' t' d____
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OLYMPICS
06/10 SONG: “We Go For the Gold” - http://www.musick8.com/
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08/04 Olympics Lesson Plan:
http://www2.edgate.com/summergames/lesson_plans/lp/?lp=glp4
Contributed by Ardith Roddy
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ALL ABOUT 2014 + LIST OF SUMMER GAMES
05/02 SONG: "Carry the Torch" works well to integrate with Greek history. The Encarta encylclopedia has wonderful Opening and Closing ceremony information that is informative and interesting. Character traits and teamwork can be emphasizedthrough this.
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02/02 LESSON: I have been doing a listening lesson with 4th and 5th this week with the
Olympic Fanfare (The music is in STM-2). This is similar to what is
suggested in the book only a little more "in depth" for the older grades.
I play the piece and have them follow a listening map so they can easily
see the 3 sections of the music. Then, I put them in 3 groups (one for
each section of music) and I give them these directions:
At the end of class we do a final performance where they must do their
movements when they hear their section in the music.
I have been amazed at what they can come up with.
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FIELD DAY: "The four years prior to the Summer Olympics in Atlanta we had 'Olympic Days' instead of our regular Spring Fields Days through our
PE department. I was asked to have an Opening and a Closing Ceremony. Each homeroom chose a country to represent for the
Olympics. I taught each homeroom either a dance or a song that represented their country. By the fourth year I had found more dances
and songs, and found folk tales for each country, also. In art class, the students made T-shirts with their countries flag on it which they
wore for field day. Some classroom teachers spent time studying about their country."
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PHILIPPINES
06/06 RESOURCE: Children's songs and nursery rhymes from all over the globe both in English and native languages - Many include sound clips and sheet music.
www.mamalisa.com/world/philippi.html
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SONG: (I - quarter, / = eighth, 7 = eighth rest, z = quarter rest, written in solfeggio)[ same rhythm for all 4 phrases]
I // I 7 / I I I z s s-s m s f m r z tsit-tsirit-tsit ali bang bang
f f-f r f m r d z salaginto, salagubang
s s-s d d r m f: ang babak sa lansangan
f f-f s f m r d kung gumiri, parang tandang
Singkamas at talong, Sigarilyas at mani
Sitaw, bataw, patani, Kundol, patola, upo't kalabasa
At saka meron pang, Labanos, mustasa
Sibuyas, kamatis, Bawang at luya
Sa paligid nito puno ng linga.
This is a cute song about a house. You learn like all the vegetables in the garden too ...
radish, mustard, onions, tomatoes,
garlic, and ginger and all around is full of linga !
( I don’t know how to translate some of the filipino vegetables ....) -- Nadine
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PUERTO RICO
12/07 FELIZ NAVIDAD Jose Feliciano wrote [this song] in honor of his birthplace - Puerto Rico. He moved to New York as a child and is American, not Mexican. -- Pat Price
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BOOMWHACKERS: I have a very neat arrangement of "Cheki Morena" in the collection "Composing with Boomwhackers". It's a Puerto Rican game song, but in this collection I used it as the theme for a rondo. Students create rhythm compositions as the variations of the rondo. My grade 4-5 students loved this!-- Denise Gagne www.musicplay.ca Musicplay - the Sequential Text Series
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RUSSIA
06/14 SONG: "Bayuski Bayu" it's also known as the Cossack Lullaby - beautiful
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07/05 I've always used a couple of folk tunes from a series used here in Canada called Musicanada. "Minka" is a Russian folk song and "Where?" is a Ukrainian folk song that both use the minor/major/minor form which is quite common of eastern European melodies. -- Lynn Hadfield
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07/05 SONG: Maybe five years back, the World's Largest Concert used a Scandinavian song called Vem kann siglen uten vind ("Who Can Sail Without the Wind"). It was absolutely gorgeous, and easy enough for the youngest kids. We sang it in English, of course. The words mean Who can sail without the wind? Who can row without oars? Who can bid goodbye to a friend without shedding any tears? I can sail without the wind. I can row without oars. But I can't bid goodbye to a friend without shedding any tears... So you can hear the tune, I found a MIDI here: http://ingeb.org/folksonw.html Just scroll down to the "Who" listings. This version is more ornate than the version I taught, and is in 4 instead of 3; but it's still nice. The mom of one of my students played violin and had studied in Sweden, so she was pleasantly surprised when her son came home singing this song. She brought her violin and played the song and let the kids sing along with her. She even taught them the original language!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ta8paus5bvI -- Kay Lovingood
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SONG: A beautiful Russian lullaby when sung in round on CD: :The Chenille Sisters, "1,2,3 For Kids"
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SONG: Kolyada is a Russian Christmas song that I have used at the Grade 2/3 level.
BIRCH TREE LYRICS:
Vo po-lay ber-io-za sta-ya-la Vo po-lay ku-dria-va-ya sta-ya-la Lu-lee, lu-lee, sta-ya-la, Lu-lee, lu-lee, sta-ya-la.
If my high school and college Russian serve me well, I think I would transcribe the first line as "vo polye beryozinka stayala" meaning "in the field a little birch tree stood."
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SCOTLAND
07/05 DANCE: http://www.scottishdance.net/ceilidh/dances.html folk dances from all over:
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Songs: Mairi's Wedding, Ally Bally has a chorus which would probably go down well, Westering Ho, The Skye Boat Song
(Most of these can be found in collections in the library. Ask your librarian for an index to find these songs.
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SHAKERS
ABOUT: The Shaker east was populated with Shaker communities during the 1800's and first part of this century. At last ount, there were 7 Shaker members at the Sabbathday Lake Community, in Maine. There may have been a death or two, recently, as the ladies were up in years. However, there had been a couple of males who had converted to the religion, the only source today of new members.
There are many remarkable aspects of the Shaker culture. There are so many things we use every day that they invented. Their music and dance alone made them unique. Celibacy is the main reason their numbers have dwindled. Depending on the age of this student, you may not want to get into this discussion.
The Shakers did not believe in procreation. They lived by themselves in communal gender-segregated villages. They got their members through evangelism. Whole families joined the Shaker sect and were divided by gender. Their heyday occurred during a period when there was a great wave of various spiritual "revivals" across the nation, and the Shakers, among others, benefitted numerically. Their numbers dwindled after a few years, and have fallen to near nothing. I am under the impression that a few very elderly adherents may still be alive, and that a very few younger (middle-aged) folk have converted. But I don't think we'll be seeing services on T.V. Their ingenuity is legendary, their designs pristine.
One of the communities invented the round barn, wherein the feed was stored on the third tier, the cattle could walk in for feeding and milking on the middle tier at ground level, and the various wastes could be swept through the floor down to the lowest tier for use as fertilizer and compost. Clean as a whistle, they left nothing on the floor that was small enough to lift - - even the chairs, when not in use, were hung on the wall.
I'm pulling all this off the top of my head from my class in American Music back in 1968 or so. If I recall correctly, there were at one
time sizeable communities in Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New Hampshire, among other places.
Also called the Shaking Quakers, their services were distinguished by the shaking done by the entire congregation, wherein they attempted to shake the devil - - and all impure thoughts and impulses - - out of themselves physically. The engravings showing everyone with the same foot in the air are actually quite moving, no pun intended. At www.shakers.org, I found a lovely website from the Shaker Village in New Hampshire - - with lots of activities and festivities (Sweet Tooth Day is tomorrow!), but no mention of services or religious activity of any kind. There is reference to "Shaker-inspired" products, but no reference to any actual Shakers.
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SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA [See also Mexico under it's own heading]
12/13 CHRISTMAS SONGS:
SONGS: The following are at at http://www.janwolters.nl/jwfree5-uk.html (sheet music)
A La Nanita Nana - Trad.
Arre Borriquito - Trad.
Campana Sobre Campana - Trad.
Los Peces en el Rio - Trad.
Lyrics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7HXMODM67Q
Tick-Tock version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-ea4Exg1so
It's fun to enact this in school by having a couple of students go from classroom to class room "looking for a room at the inn" and being
El Gallo Pinto (round): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hb3-DapMfmQ ---- KAREN INGALLS
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GUIDELINES FOR CURRICULUM:
1.Melody-Latin American usually uses major scale songs as opposed to modal and minor
2. Rhythm-Latin American uses both 3/4,4/4 and 6/8 rhythms with syncopation and off beat rhythm patterns
3. Harmony-Latin American music uses full, lush harmonies
4. Form-Latin American songs uses Verse/Chorus. Also check out their varied Classical music forms
5. Tone Color-Mariachi bands,maracas, bongo drums,guitars (Check your rhythm instruments and catalogs that have Latin American sets for ideas) May use autoharps for string sound
6. Check out some of the classical composers that use folk music in their compositions.
Sources: Internet(just google Latin American Music) k-8 resources, Music Alive magazine and website, Smithsonian(lots of examples here!)
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12/09 CURRICULUM IDEAS: I use the children's book Tonight is Carnaval by Arthur Dorros to introduce traditional instruments and culture, along with the song Mama Paquita. Silver Burdett (we have the Music Connection edition) has a good version of Mama Paquita which uses traditional instruments such as the cuica. The Feb/March 2007 issue of Activate has a section on music from Brazil that deals with instruments, the samba, the bossa nova and carnaval with listening activities, information pages, speech and percussion pieces and a even a couple of worksheets.
We also dance La Raspa and sing Don Gato (from Mexico). If you look in the 2006 and 2007 archives for this list under South America you'll find more ideas there. --- Deanna M. in Charlotte, MI
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07/11 BRAZIL: You have to introduce them to the Bossa Nova! My favorite album is
Jazz Samba, by Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd.
The best thing is that the Samba de Uma Note So (Samba on one note)
can be played on G and C, and can be accompanied by your soprano
recorders. The only down side is that some of your kids will think it
sounds like "elevator music." In that case, go to Amazon's Bossa Nova
section and get something by a Brazilian artist. ---- Erica on Long Island
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11/08 STICK DANCE: "Los Machetes"; It's fun, pretty easy to learn, and the students that age like it. It's on one of Sanna Longden's CDs. --- Monica Gelinas in TN
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PERU
12/07 ARGENTINA: Go to West Music and type in "Argentina" in the "search" box. It should bring up any collections that have songs. -- Julie Jones in Williamsburg, VA
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12/07 Mi Chacra is from Argentina
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01/07 WEBSITE: Here's a nice site that has the song “El Condor Pasa” - you can listen to it and I'm sure your kids could figure out the drum part and you could write a simple recorder version.
http://boleadora.com/andes.htm
Wikipedia has info on this song: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_C%C3%B3ndor_Pasa_%28song%29
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06/07 WEBSITE: http://www.markamusic.com - Many resources
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01/07 SONG COLLECTION: Cantamos Americanos is a nice collection from John Jacobson & John Higgens. The songs are in Spanish & English. One verse might be Spanish but the next is English- or the two languages mixed. Nicely orchestrated tracks and a performance CD with JJ's usual choreography ideas. Includes a script if you want to perform as a program. Songs include Cantamos Americanos (Jacobson/Higgens) , Imo Gal (Jamaican-all English), Mi Caballo Blanco(Chili) , Guantanamera (Cuba) , It's the Rhythm In Latin Music (Jacobson/Higgens) . -- Dianne Park, President, San Diego American Orff Schulwerk Association, Visit our SDAOSA website at http://sdorff.org/
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01/07 AZTEC DRUMMING: I just completed a new activity page on Aztec drumming. It includes:
1) a brief description of Aztec instruments;
2) a guide to translating Aztec drum syllables into musical notation
3) recreations of Aztec drum rhythms and music
4) multimedia activities that combine%2
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JINGLE BELLS (en Espanol)
Volando por la nieve En un lindo trineo
Con mi bella Susanna Salimos de paseo
Vibraba la alegrella En nuestros corazones
Aquella tarde fria Tan llena de emociones
coro:
Cascabel cascabel Musica de amor
Dulces horas gratas horas juventud en flor
Cascabel(2) Tan sentimental
No dejes cascabelito De repiquetar (repliquetear ?)
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SPAIN-MEXICO
I checked out "Cantos para Jugar" from a local library. I've never ordered it because it is printed in Mexico, but with a little scrounging, you probably could. It is a great resource. I am teaching a week long music camp in Spanish in August, and it is one of my primary resources.
His book, "De Colores" costs about $17.00 and has the music written out.
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SOY DE IRLANDA:
This St. Patrick's Day song was passed on to me by a 2nd Grade teacher from El Salvador. I added the English words myself, and to be honest, they don't scan properly in line with the Spanish version, so if I ever did actually have them sing it in English I'd probably have to invent a new second section to accommodate that English "translation." It's a nice song to act out, by the way. I often have a couple of kids grab a broom handle at opposite ends laid across a barrel drum to pretend it's the mill wheel and have them walk around like that grinding the grain until the words: "Para tu molino!" (stop your mill) with a fermata on the end of molino, and they hold out there hand as if to say, "Halt." They then resume grinding the grain when it goes back into tempo for rest: Porque en irlanda, porque en irlanda esta mi cariño My buddy from El Salvador also showed me how to first pick girl to stand up and pretend to be the daughter of the miller, and then a boy (chico grazioso por ser el hijo del molinero) It's a pretty little song, and a neat little novelty for St. Patrick's day.
Unfortunately not all the songs come with melodies, and there'l no fast way of knowing which are the children's songs. Maybe you (or someone else on the list) could take a look try and recognize a few titles. Here's one
intersting-looking example I grabbed kind of quickly:
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SWITZERLAND
SONGS: http://www.mamalisa.com/?p=912&t=ec&c=126
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THAILAND
06/06 SONG: There is a Thai children's song about rice called Rii Rii Khao San in the book/cd set From Bangkok and Beyond: Thai Childrens Songs, Games and Customs that we've published. Available through Plank Rd or your favorite dealer.
www.worldmusicpress.com
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06/06 BOOK: "From Bangkok and Beyond" (Songs, games & customs) is available at MusicK8.com.
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Silver Burdett has a supplement called Bridges to Asia. There are 2 levels and a set of CD's for both. So far, I've just used book 1 (I teach K-5). Last year, we learned Sowatdee which is a hello song from Thailand. It's short and very catchy. The supplement and cd's are good. Actual people from the cultures are on the recordings. A few of them sound "Americanized" but most sound pretty good. A great one from Polynesia they loved was Chit-chi-rit-chit. It was really catchy! -- Rhonda in Wisconsin
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UKRAINE
SONGS: http://www.mamalisa.com/?t=ec&p=984&c=152
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WORLD
05/21 SONG: Check out "Listen to the Children" from MK8. I have used it and it is very easy for the kids to learn quickly. It would fit perfectly with your theme. I did change the "na na na na na" to "la las" because they were just getting too obnoxious with the "na na" sound.
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RAP: Red Grammer has a Rap called Places in the World and the kids love it:
https://www.redgrammer.com/index.php/store/lyrics?id=112
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Song for the Children from the SB Music Connection. It has "hello" in several different languages. It's grade 4, I think.
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SONG: "Far Away Places with Strange-Sounding Names?" Jo Stafford
http://www.cduniverse.com/jo-stafford-far-away-places-lyrics-6811023.htm.
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SONG: How about "Oh My Aunt Came Back" - my grade 2's loved it, picked it up in a minute.I have it in Action Songs Vol.2I use it to introduce my multicultural material in grade 1/2.
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05/21 SONGBOOK: Wee Sing Around the World - The first song, "Hello to All the Children of the World," is a great one for this kind of thing (my opinion, of course). The classroom teacher could easily use it without you having to take any of your classroom time. We use it every year as the theme song of our International Week.
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