Focus: Orff process, timbre, movement, improvisation. Audience: Teachers K-8

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1 VMEA Distict 14 Apil 26, 2014 Sounds abound! Bent Holl Desciption In this session we ll celebate the timbes of the Off instuments as we look at thei ustification and use in the music classoom We will play aangements and ceate impovisations and tapesties of sound to exploe the beautiful sound colos of the Off ochesta Each timbe of Off instuments will be exploed Ochestation suggestions will be given and some typical uses of each instument goup will be intoduced This session will include lots of instument playing with impovisation, movement, and ecodes Focus: Off pocess, timbe, movement, impovisation Audience: Teaches K-8 Note to wokshop paticipants: Please feel fee to use anything in these notes witten o aanged by Bent Holl fo you own pofessional use in class o wokshops Simply make sue that the following notice is on each copy Bent M Holl, 2014 All ights eseved Used by pemission Fo all othe mateials pemission must be obtained fom the copyight holde These notes ae available online fo download at This wokshop has been pesented by: Bent M Holl 302 East College Steet Bidgewate, Va bentholl@maccom wwwbenthollcom Find moe fee stuff at 1

2 VMEA Distict 14 Apil 26, Bent Holl, instucto Rondo fo Body Pecussion Body Instuments: step, patsch, clap, snap, bush, bass tone, pops, slap and moe The body shaes the same psychological and dynamic chaacteistics with the dum Body instuments ae dynamic, spiited, active, expessive, poweful, stong, hythmic, enegizing, vigoous, and foceful Along with ou voices, the body instuments ae the pimay instuments of the human body We cay them with us all the time, they ae inexpensive, and they cay a wide ange of inteesting timbes and hythms Body instuments can be used by eveyone at evey age with any degee of developmental ability o aw talent Using ou body instuments helps move childen though thei psychological leaning stages and inceases thei ability to undestand the wold aound them Rondo fo BP Clap Bass Patsch Back c Bent M Holl Bass Clap Patsch R Patsch L c J J Snap Clap Patsch Stomp c Cl Pt Pt J J, Sn Cl Pt Sn 2

3 Glockenspiels Glockenspiels: The sound of the glockenspiel sounds pue, fesh, spakling, twinkling, shining, and childlike Sweet the Bells Sing SG AG AM/SM c c c π it A a tempo BMH SG AG SG AG AM/SM 9 9 C B SG AG AM/SM p it The instument oiginated as an unpitched wind chime like the instument in the Mozat opea, The Magic Flute It also can be taced to clock chimes The oiginal glockenspiels wee glasses of wate tuned to the pitches of the scale being used In 1936, at the opening ceemony of the 3

4 VMEA Distict 14 Apil 26, Bent Holl, instucto Olympic Games in Belin, the fist note of the ceemony was stuck on a wate glass ove what was then a band new piece of technology, the PA system Imagine the wonde of the wold audience as that clea spakling tone esounded though the huge Olympic stadium! Of couse fo pactical classoom uses Keetman and Off needed a moe duable instument so the moden glockenspiel was developed! Sight eading is enomously impotant in music education Use simple pieces like this to analyse the notation and lean to ead at sight How eve slowly the pocess of leaning to ead may be, it is essential to the holistic education of the child and should be encouaged in evey leaning activity Metallophones Cantique Exotique (Ensemble, BMH, p 20) Metallophones: The sound of the metallophone is ich, mellow, hazy, mysteious, mystical, sumptuous, and inging Geneally speaking, a metallophone is any musical instument consisting of tuned metal bas which ae stuck to make sound, usually with a hand-held beate Metallophones have been used in music fo hundeds of yeas Thee ae seveal diffeent types used in Balinese and Javanese gamelan ensembles, including the gendé and saon These instuments have a single ow of bas, and ae often tuned to a pentatonic scale The glockenspiel and vibaphone ae also metallophones - these have two ows of bas and ae tuned to the chomatic scale In music of the 20th centuy and beyond, the wod metallophone is sometimes applied specifically to a single ow of metal bas suspended ove a esonato box and tuned to the diatonic scale Such instuments ae often used in schools, and Cal Off used them in seveal of his pieces, including his pedagogical Schulwek This aticle is fom Wikipedia All text is available unde the tems of the GNU Fee Documentation License Cantique Exotique Recode 1 c Ó BMH 6 We ll lean some ostinatos fo the metallophones in the style of a gamelon ochesta and add the dagon movement The instument pats ae witten out in the book, but ae simple enough to lean by ote 4

5 The movement technique is a vaiation of a movement mini canon Each peson in line imitates the peson in font afte that peson making a wave of motion The line of pesons pogesses ceating the dagon Add costumes and a dagon head fo a paade Xylophones The Foce is With Us Xylophones: The sound of the Xylophone is dy, foceful, vigoous, dynamic, humoistic, macabe, and impelling Sop Xylo Sop Xylo 2 Alto Xyl Bass Xyl Sop Xyl Sop Xyl 2 Alto Xyl Bass Xyl 3 3 The Foce is with Us!? ? 4 7 J J J J J J J J J J J J J J J J J J J J J J J J J Fine J J J J DõC aõl Fine J BMH Cal Off eceived a gift fom two missionaies in Afica of a balafon, an untuned wooden baed instument Fom this gift and with the help of his fiend Kal Maendle, a hapsichod builde, he developed the fist xylophones in the familia one peson size, so that dances at the Guntheschule in Salsbug could accompany thei own dances The fist xylophones in use esembled vey closely ou own Alto Xylophones and wee in use at the Guntheschule fom 1923 until the outbeak of Wold Wa II in The Bass Xylophone was not developed until the middle 60 s Fo moe infomation and a shot histoy of the xylophones ealy development visit: wwwclassicsfokidscom/teaches/taining/offinstumentsasp and english/potait_e/indexhtm

6 VMEA Distict 14 Apil 26, Bent Holl, instucto Aim: To build awaeness of mixed mete To build a hythm fom simple to complex To einfoce hythmic independence and build confidence To use speech as a geneato of inteest and excitement Pocess: Use body instuments to intoduce the hythm of the A section Patsch on the fist note of each measue and clap all the est Stat slow and build tempo and confidence Play the hythm in vaious canons stating with 4 beats down to 1 Stat with two goups and build to seveal Fo a challenge, let each peson be a goup and stat in canon afte the fist two notes Tansfe to all xylophones and maimbas and lean the pats Lean the B section by note Allow pocessing time fo each pat xx Allow each instument pat to sepaate fom the goup and help each othe find the notes and figue out the hythm Teache checks and appoves each goup s etun to the ensemble Make a fom by deciding how many times to play the A section and the B section Add a speech ap to the B section to make it a Rondo Use you favoite poveb, nusey hyme, fable, o ust make something up Putting them all togethe Bamboula fom Steven Kennedy s Cescent City Collection Aim: To build sense melodic stuctue To build a melody fom simple to complex To einfoce note eading on the teble staff To lean a piece of classical music 4 2 s p m g s s s s s s a s s s s p m g s s s s s s g g Pocess: Lean the melody by ote and note a little at a time Stat with the skeleton Add notes until it s complete Use the Hand Staff, imitation, note eading, et al 6

7 Play Rotation let the kids play lots of instuments Add the est of the instuments by imitation and visualization Make an aangement and play the whole thing! Pefomance Suggestion Play pecussion once though (no epeat) Add bass maimba Play once though (no epeat) Add Maimba 1 and 3 Play once though (no epeat) Play Maimba 2 once though (no epeat) All play once though (no epeat) Play Maimba 2 and 3 once though (no epeat) All play once though (with epeat) Ceate a fantasia section allowing diffeent combinations of instuments to play solo, duet, o tio ad libitum All play once though (with epeat) Bamboula (Fom the Book) Louis Moeau Gottschalk, piano podigy and New Olean s geat classical compose, concetized thoughout the wold His paents owned a Rampat Steet home in the Teme neighbohood on the edge of the Fench Quate Gottschalk would walk onto his balcony on Sunday monings and listen to slaves who wee allowed to meet and who played music acoss the steet in Congo Squae, a patch of land in Teme In Congo Squae, Gottschalk expeienced Afican dance and music, but he was also intoduced to new instuments such as bamboulas and banzas Bamboula names dums made fom bamboo as well as an Afican dance accompanied by that dum Intigued by the hythms and tunes he head in Congo Squae, Gottschalk composed seveal pieces of music eflecting his expeience Bamboula, a piece fo solo piano composed between 1844 and 184, was pemieed by the compose at the Theate d Oleans in the Fench Quate Gottschalk may have head the Ceole tune sung by potato gilles on the steets of New Oleans The hythms of the bamboula dums ae echoed in the fist fou bas of the oiginal composition Louis Moeau Gottschalk 7

8 VMEA Distict 14 Apil 26, Bent Holl, instucto Cescent City Collection Bamboula Maimba Louis Moeau Gottschalk A Steven A Kennedy Maimba Maimba 3 Cabasa V ã Conga Dums ã 4 2 Bass Maimba Mb 1? 4 2 Mb 2 Mb 3 Cab V ã C D ã B Mb? 2012 Steven A Kennedy All ights eseved Used by pemission 8

9 Semina: Justification fo use of the Instuments (fom Maste Class in Off Schulwek by Jos Wuytack 1991) Off instuments ae not used as a magic fomula to combat steility in music and ae not used as an end to themselves, but as a means of music teaching which is ustified both educationally and atistically At some point all childen would like to play as well as sing Cantae and Sonae Some will pefe to play, othes to sing The use of instuments leads to active paticipation It puts contol of the music in the hands of the students They ae active paticipants in thei own leaning expeiences Playing the instuments is tuly play fo the childen It is pedocentic (childcenteed), encouaging a vital avenue fo self expession with both oy and seiousness Instumental wok is ensemble wok Woking coopeatively is an essential life skill Evey membe of the ensemble is impotant, woking to thei level of competence Instuments encouage ceativity because of the ease of impovisation It insues even eluctant students a path to success The instuments enable immediate success At the same time, students ae challenged by moe pactice and moe and moe difficult techniques The timbe of the instuments is extaodinay in its ange of sounds (T)hey can delight, fighten, calm, o they can excite, exalt into egions of ecstasy and mysteythey have a magical chaacte 9