Grade+4

GRADE **4**

Sept 8 What is Music made with? Where did it come from? What do we use it for? **C2.1, 2.2**

Sept 19 Focus on Dynamics using "The Rainstorm" Divided class into four groups, to create 4 other phenomena using dynamics as our central musical element -Stream to Waterfall -airplane taking off (maybe landing) -earthquake -fireworks **C1.2,1.3 1.4**

Figure out a handful of sounds, and use a dynamic arc to represent the phenomena through dynamics

Sept 26 Plan and Rehearse, What can we use from the classroom, what could be brought in.

Oct 4 half for rehearsal, half for performance

Oct 12 FOCUS on the element of Rhythm. Bust out the Bucket Drums. First class focus on technique, parts of the drum, expectations, call and answer, **C2.3**

Oct 19 Simple rhythmic reading in 4\4 **C1.5**

Oct 26 Perhaps compose, review, extend on previous lesson.


 * NOVEMBER** **Canada's Greatest Music Class?**


 * DECEMBER** Perhaps help their Xmas performance. **C3.2**


 * January** Revisit Buckets, composition, structure, 3\4 and 2\4 time.

"Harry Potter Puppets" as our inspiration, discuss how the piece was put together (ostinattos, simple melody, complimentary rhythms create a rhythmic ostinato song based on getting ready for recess

Sept 29 continue project or use it to present to another class.

Oct 6 create "Awesome Ostinattos" composition and performance project inspired by Harry Potter Puppets, but based on Hallowe'en

Oct 14-work on assignment

Oct 21- last day to work on assignment

Oct 28 -perform for marks and Hallowe'en assembly? AWESOME OSTINATTOS!

Harry Potter Puppets Analysis. The following elements made this performance easy to follow, entertaining, and musical. -theme, names of the characters in Harry Potter -beat provided “the ticking noise” -each character (lyric) has it’s own place (timing) in the bar, it’s own “Ostinatto” staying in tempo -each character or lyric has a difference in pitch -each character had it’s own motion or dance that accompanied their lyric -Timing (characters appear one at a time, gradually, increasing and decreasing dynamics) -at the end, all characters sang as a chorus in unison

-THEMES (within the theme) Candy Decorations Scary Costumes Jackolanterns Trick-or-Treating

November\December, -introduce UKULELE's focusing on tuning, holding, strumming, reading chord charts

January -UKULELE's chords C, F, G - singing and strumming a 12 bar blues in C -applying C,F,G to different songs,

February -prepare performance of a three chord tune, rehearsing as a class and in small ensembles.