Date: My Favorite Instrument

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1 Name: Date: T My Favorite Instrument 7rr iso! What is your favorite musical instrument? Why is it your favorite? Do you have a favorite musician who play this instrument? If yes, who is it. Would you play this instrument if you could? Tell us all about your favorite instrument using the pre-writing worksheet as your guide!

2 Mr. Pinnick Snow Packet 2 Day Three Read "Jazz Music" and do the activity at the bottom of the sheet. Read "Irving Berlin" and answer the questions at the end. Day Four Do Pre-Writing Worksheet Do activity "My Favorite Instrument"

3 music / w Jazz is often considered America's first musical invention. The music grew out of African-American communities in the South in the late 1800s and the early 1900s after slavery was abolished and many freed slaves set out to look for work. Due to strict segregation laws in the South, they had trouble finding it in traditional places of employment, but most of those laws didn't apply to entertainment gigs. African-Americans began to be hired to perform music in vaudeville and variety shows, where an upbeat music called ragtime became popular. In New Orleans, this music was transformed into jazz. Since New Orleans is a port city, people from all over the world came by boat every day, and began bringing musical traditions from their home countries into New Orleans' nightclubs and entertainment venues. These forms of music blended together to become a lively blend known as jazz. The Jazz Age" came about in the 1920s. The United States was changing women had been given the right to vote, and Prohibition was passed. Wild jazz music became the perfect background music to the turbulent times. Young people of all backgrounds began to take an interest in the music, and the African-American musicians that wrote and played it became respected and popular performers. From there many branches of jazz evolved, and seeped into other styles of pop music. Composer George Gershwin caused an uproar in the 1920s when he combined strong elements of jazz music with classical music in his work Rhapsody in Blue, now a very famous piece of American concert music. Many songwriters followed suit, and jazz's influence reached almost every form of popular music after it. Its free-form style can be heard in almost every form of American pop music today. WORD SCRIII1DLE! Unscramble the letters to form the word that completes the sentence. 1. The word "jazz" may have come from a slang word, jasm, which meant " energy, and vigor." RIPITS 2. music is considered to be one of the roots of jazz. ESLUB 3. African-American musicians playing in shows helped spread jazz music throughout the northern and western United States. LEAUDEVLVI

4 111V111G DERLII1 fi Irving Berlin was born Israel Isidore Baline to a Jewish family in Russia in His family moved to the United States in 1893 to escape persecution in Russia, and settled in New York City. To help support his struggling family, he sang for change in public places as a teenager, where he noticed that the songs people liked best were well-known songs with catchy melodies and lyrics that expressed happiness. As a young man, he worked as a singing waiter in a café, and soon music publishers began to take notice of him. He was offered a job on Tin Pan Alley, the New York neighborhood where many music publishers worked. He wrote popular songs for music publishers, then moved on to writing songs for Broadway musicals. His songs then began to be used in movie musicals, a popular genre of the 1930s and 40s. He continued to write music for stage and screen well into his 50s. Over the course of his career, he wrote about 1,500 songs, many of which became major hits and continue to be performed today. A great number of his songs are now considered American classics, like "Blue Skies", "There's No Business Like Show Business", "Puttin' on the Ritz", "God Bless America", and "White Christmas". He is an artistic hero to many and is considered one of America's all-time greatest songwriters. 1. Why did Irving's family move to the United States? 2. What is Tin Pan Alley?

5 Pre Writing Worksheet I. 1. List three instruments which you enjoy: b. c. 2. Which of those three instruments do you like the most? 3. Is it a string instrument, wind instrument, or other instrument? 4. List 3 people who play this instrument b. c. 5. Who is your favorite musician? 6. Do you have a favorite music group? If Yes, who and why? 7. Can you give an example of a song which features this instrument? Title: b. Artist: 8. When was the first time you heard this instrument? 9. Would you learn how to play this instrument if you knew a teacher? 10. Do people play this instrument in the country which you came from? 11. Why is this your favorite instrument? 12. What is your least favorite instrument?