Learning Resource Type

Classroom Resource

Call and Response from Carnegie Hall

Subject Area

Arts Education

Grade(s)

K, 1

Overview

Students will sing echo songs and call and response songs. Students will take turns being the soloist or leader. Songs include "Che Che Kule" and "Follow the Drinking Gourd." There are videos to demonstrate the lesson. 

    Arts Education (2017) Grade(s): KG - Music

    AE17.MU.K.15

    Demonstrate how a specific music concept is used in music.

    Unpacked Content

    UP:AE17.MU.K.15

    Vocabulary

    Rhythm
    • Steady beat
    • Long/ Short
    • One and two sounds per beat
    • Silent beat
    Melody
    • High and low
    • Pitch set: So, Mi
    • Musical alphabet
    Harmony
    • Accompaniment/ no accompaniment
    Form
    • Like and unlike phrases
    • Echo
    Expression
    • Speak, sing, shout, whisper
    • Solo/ Group
    • Unpitched percussion
    • Flute, trumpet, violin, piano
    • Loud/ Soft
    • Fast/ Slow
    Other
    • Age-appropriate audience and performer etiquette

    Essential Questions

    EU: Response to music is informed by analyzing context (social, cultural, and historical) and how creators and performers manipulate the elements of music.
    EQ: How does understanding the structure and context of music inform a response?

    Skills Examples

    Performing
    • Perform songs of various genres while reflecting appropriate stylistic characteristics.
    Creating
    • Purposefully move to music and articulate why they made the movement choices they made based on the music they heard.
    Reading/ Writing
    • Discuss, using musical language, the characteristics of the music they hear and/or perform.
    • Discuss, using age/developmentally appropriate musical language, what sort of music they like personally and why.
    Responding/ Evaluating
    • Share ideas about musical selections of various and contrasting styles, composers and musical periods.
    • Describe how sounds and music are used in our daily lives.
    • Describe the difference between steady beat and rhythm.
    • Identify and connect a concept shared between music and another curricular area.
    • Identify and discuss various uses of music in the United States and the various meanings of the term "musician."
    • Respond to sound with a drawing of how the sound makes them feel.
    • Offer opinions about their own musical experiences and responses to music.
    • Aurally identify flute, trumpet, violin, and piano.

    Anchor Standards

    Anchor Standard 8: Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.
    Arts Education (2017) Grade(s): 1 - Music

    AE17.MU.1.16

    Demonstrate and identify how specific music concepts are used in various styles of music for a purpose.

    Unpacked Content

    UP:AE17.MU.1.16

    Vocabulary

    Rhythm
    • Quarter note, quarter rest, paired eighth notes
    • Strong/ weak beat
    • Steady beat/ rhythm
    • Allegro/ adagio
    Melody
    • Pitch set: Mi, So, La
    • Steps/ skips/ repeated notes
    • Melodic direction
    • Modified staff
    • Line notes and space notes
    Harmony/texture
    • Rhythmic ostinati
    • Simple bordun
    Form
    • AB, ABA
    Expression
    • Legato, staccato
    • Piano (p), forte (f)
    • Classroom instrument classifications
    • Clarinet, trombone, cello, drum
    • Orchestral music: ballet
    • Non-Western music celebrations
    Other
    • Proper singing posture
    • Age-appropriate pitch matching (C4 - C5)1
    • Mallet/ drumming technique — hands together

    Essential Questions

    EU: Response to music is informed by analyzing context (social, cultural, and historical) and how creators and performers manipulate the elements of music.
    EQ: How does understanding the structure and context of music inform a response?

    Skills Examples

    Performing
    • Select appropriate music for specific events such as school festivals, community events, and class or grade level performances.
    Creating
    • Create a rhythmic ostinato that reflects the style of the music performed (ex: finger cymbals/lullaby).
    Reading/ Writing
    • Identify repeated rhythmic passages in music and notate using iconic notation (ex: rhythm of repeated melodic phrase in "In the Hall of the Mountain King").
    Responding/ Evaluating
    • Aurally identify clarinet, trombone, and cello in the context of an ensemble performance.

    Anchor Standards

    Anchor Standard 8: Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.
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    Carnegie Hall
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