Our Song: Bohemian Rhapsody https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fj9ruzimczq Music 395B Middle School Lesson Plan Name: Eva George, Christian Lopez, Haley Schilla Learner Objectives: Define a Rhapsody Describe Major vs. Minor Key sounds Write a lyric to a melody National Standards: MU:Re7.2.5a Pennsylvania Arts Standards: 6.a. Content Standard: Listening to, analyzing and describing music. Required Materials: Computer Speakers Students Space Worksheets Pencils Task Analysis: 1. (T) Good morning everyone, we want to start out class with a fun warm up. (SS) will copy teacher to get blood moving and focus attention 2. (T) Introduce song form, time era written, band Queen, and the terms bohemian and rhapsody. 3. View video minus the questionable lyrics 4. (T) will introduce listening activity, playing a section (3 examples) from the song in major or minor (SS) will respond with what they think it is (major v. minor), what mood it sets (happy or sad), and the instrumentation. 5. After example 1, (T) will introduce lyric exercise. (SS) will take a few minutes to write alternate lyric. 6. After example 3, (T) play the chords in a upbeat cut time sequence and pose questions to the students. Group 2: Jacob, Dylan, Kate, Olivia History: where, when?
Instrumentation: What instruments do you hear? Slow/fast sections: What does this music make you feel like? How would you describe it? Different types of music: Ballad, Opera, Hard Rock 3:10-opera Beginning- Barber Shop 4:15- Hard Rock 5:15- Ballad Queen aren t the first musicians to write like this: comparison to Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody #2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7h99fm6s8ru Beginning: minor, melody in right hand 1:25-2:10: Melody gets busier, in major. Is it setting up something? Yes, a return to the beginning 4:45: What s happening now? Lots of notes in both hands, major (Is this like the opera section in Bohemian Rhapsody? I think so) 8:20: Exciting ending (guitar solo). Does it end the same way as Queen s rhapsody? How is it the same/different Rhapsody = A one-movement work that is episodic yet integrated, free-flowing in structure, featuring a range of highly contrasted moods, color and tonality. We know Queen s song does that, does this piano piece do that too? (Yes) When do you think it was written? (1847) 128 years apart and they are doing the same things! Task Analysis: 1. Greet the class 2. T: When do you think this song was written? Where do you think it was written? What does it remind you of? 3. T: We are going to listen to the song again, and make a little list of the instruments that you hear. 4. T: Asks students to share what they hear. a. S: Students share what they hear. 5. T: All of these things are part of what makes up the music, it gives us the context. Remember all the sections we broke the song into? We can call them by different names, called genres. Does anyone have any guesses as to what they are? a. S: respond with guesses i. Opera ii. Hard rock iii. Ballad 6. T: What did the music make you feel like?
7. T: Did anybody else ever write a piece like this? Anyone ever heard of Franz Liszt? His favorite instrument was the piano and he wrote a rhapsody too. 8. T: Play sections of Liszt, asking students to listen for texture, modality, etc. Asks questions from above comparing it to Bohemian Rhapsody a. S: Share answers 9. T: So what did everyone think? These two pieces of music do a lot of the same things. Now did Queen and Liszt work together to write their songs? Who thinks they know what year Franz Liszt wrote his rhapsody? a. S: answer questions, guess year 10. T: The year was 1847! 128 years before Queen wrote their song, Liszt wrote his. A rock band from the 1970 s used the same composition style that somebody else used 100 years earlier, and they still sound unique. How awesome is that?
Bohemian Rhapsody Presentation February 8, 2017 Bohemian: A person who has informal or unconventional social habits, especially an artist or writer. Rhapsody : A one-movement work that has sections tied together in a free-flowing structure characterized by highly contrasted moods created with musical color and tonality. Example 1 Major/Minor Mood Style Instruments Example 2 Major/Minor Mood Style Instruments Example 3 Example 3-modified Major/Minor Mood Major/Minor Mood Style Instruments What stands out to you that makes this song so different from most popular music? Performed by Queen, written by Freddie Mercury from their 1975 album A Night at the Opera, a classic rock album awarded in the Grammy Hall of Fame, Brit Award for British Single and MTV Video Music Award for Best Video from a Film.
"Bohemian Rhapsody" Queen Section 1 (1:53-2:45) Mama, ooh, Didn't mean to make you cry, If I'm not back again this time tomorrow, Carry on, carry on as if nothing really matters. Too late, my time has come, Sends shivers down my spine, Body's aching all the time. Goodbye, everybody, I've got to go, Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth. Mama, ooh (any way the wind blows), I don't wanna die, I sometimes wish I'd never been born at all. Section 2 (3:07-3:59) I see a little silhouetto of a man, Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do the Fandango? Thunderbolt and lightning, Very, very frightening me. (Galileo) Galileo. (Galileo) Galileo, Galileo Figaro Magnifico-o-o-o-o. I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me. He's just a poor boy from a poor family, Spare him his life from this monstrosity. Easy come, easy go, will you let me go? Bismillah! No, we will not let you go. (Let him go!) Bismillah! We will not let you go. (Let him go!) Bismillah! We will not let you go. (Let me go!) Will not let you go. (Let me go!) Never, never let you go Never let me go, oh. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Section 3 (4:12-5:00) So you think you can shove me and look in my eye? So you think you can love me and leave me to die? Oh, baby, can't do this to me, baby,
Just gotta get out, just gotta get right outta here. (Oh, yeah, oh yeah) Nothing really matters, Anyone can see, Nothing really matters, Nothing really matters to me. Any way the wind blows.
SECTION 1 Lyric Activity Mama, ooh,, ooh, Didn't mean to make you cry, Didn t mean to steal/eat your, If I'm not back again this time tomorrow, If I m not back again this time, Carry on, carry on as if nothing really matters. Move along, move along, as if really. (my lyrics) Pizza, ooh, Didn t mean to eat your cheese, If I m not back again this time tonight, Move along, move along, as if pizza really bothered.