1. Deirdre Russell-Bowie
Primary Creative Arts
Teaching Music
in the
K-6 Classroom
Deirdre Russell-Bowie

2. Content in Music Duration Dynamics Pitch Tone Colour Structure
MMADD, pages
Duration
Dynamics
Pitch
Tone Colour
Structure

3. Music concepts Music concepts, they number 5, PITCH is high and low!
DURATION covers rhythm, beat and tempo (fast and slow).
Listen to the TONE COLOUR of different instruments
DYNAMICS play them loud and soft,
STRUCTURE, same and different!

5. DYNAMICS (Loud and soft)
If You’re Happy and you know it
If you’re happy and you know it,
Clap your hands!
And you really want to show it,

6. DYNAMICS (Loud and soft)

7. Lesson Plan: DYNAMICS WHY: Indicators: HOW? Resources: Introduction:
Children will demonstrate their understanding of dynamics by showing with their voices and instruments, the loud, medium and soft parts of a song and a story in response to signals and scores.
HOW? Resources:
CD: MMADD about the Arts (If You’re Happy)
CD player and extension cord/batteries/iPod + Speakers
Classroom instrument box
Puppet Flashcards from vUWS OHT of song
Introduction:
Bring puppet out of bag to conduct loud and soft singing of If You’re Happy and You Know it. Children take turns in conducting with puppet

8. Lesson Plan: DYNAMICS Body: Conclusion:
One child at a time conducts with arms to indicate when to sing softly, medium or loudly
Use flashcards (small / medium / large) to indicate when to sing softly, medium or loudly.
Read through The Farm Concert
Allocate instruments and children for each part; practise playing loudly and softly
Read through story and have children play their instruments when their animal is mentioned, loudly the first time and softly, the second time.
Conclusion:
Play through the graphic score, checking to see which children can play loudly and softly at the appropriate times.

10. TONE COLOUR (Sounds of Instruments)
Categories of Home Made Instruments:
Shakers
Hitters
Scrapers
Blowers ?

11. The Storm Group 1: Rain drops: drip, drop
Group 2: Soft rain: Pitter, patter
Group 3: Pouring rain
Group 4: Thunder and lightning
The Storm:
Group 1
Groups 1 and 2
Groups 1, 2 and 3
Groups 1, 2, 3 and 4

12. TONE COLOUR: The Storm Sound Poem
Group 1
Drip! Drip, drop! Drip, drop, drip, drop!
Pitter, patter, pitter, patter! Splish, splosh, splish, splash!
Pouring rain, down it comes, Pouring rain, down it comes,
Dark clouds looming, thunder crashes!
Blackness then the lightning flashes!
Rain is easing, gently falling! Rain is easing, gently falling!
Splish, splosh, splish, splash! Pitter, patter, pitter, patter!
Drip, drop! Drip, drop!
Drip, Drop
Drip!
Groups 1, 2
Groups 1,2, 3
Groups 1, 2, 3, and 4
Groups 1, 2, 3
Groups 1, 2
Group 1
MMADD abut the Arts, p. 97

14. PITCH (Highs and lows) The Three Billy Goats Gruff
Add tuned instruments to represent the different sizes of Goats
Add untuned instruments to represent the bridge, grass and troll

15. PITCH (Highs and Lows)

17. DURATION (Beat, Rhythm, Accent, tempo)
Beat: Group 1: Triangle
Waltzing Matilda (on MMADD CD)
Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong,
Under the shade of a coolibah tree.
And he sang as he watched and waited till his billy boiled,
You’ll come a-waltzing matilda with me!
CHORUS:
Waltzing matilda, waltzing matilda,
You’ll come a waltzing matilda with me!

18. DURATION (Beat, Rhythm, Accent, Tempo)
Waltzing Matilda
Everyone singing all verses and choruses
1st Verse and chorus: BEAT (hit thighs/triangle)
2nd Verse and chorus: ACCENT (stamp feet/drum)
3rd Verse and chorus: RHYTHM (clap / sticks)
4th Verse and chorus: 3 parts with different instruments and body percussion

19. DURATION (Beat, Rhythm, Accent, Tempo)
Beat: hit thighs/ Triangle
Waltzing Matilda (MMADD CD)
Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong,
Under the shade of a coolibah tree.
And he sang as he watched and waited till his billy boiled,
You’ll come a-waltzing matilda with me!
CHORUS:
Waltzing matilda, waltzing matilda,
You’ll come a waltzing matilda with me!

20. DURATION (Beat, Rhythm, Accent, Tempo)
Accent: Group 2/ Drum
Waltzing Matilda
Down came a jumbuck, to drink at the waterhole,
Up jumped the swagman and grabbed him with glee.
And he sang as he shoved that jumbuck in his tucker bag,
‘You’ll come a-waltzing matilda with me!’
CHORUS:
Waltzing matilda, waltzing matilda,
You’ll come a waltzing matilda with me!
And he sang as he watched and waited till his billy boiled,
You’ll come a-waltzing matilda with me!

21. DURATION (Beat, Rhythm, Accent, Tempo)
Rhythm: Group 3 /Sticks
Waltzing Matilda
Up rode the squatter, mounted on his thoroughbred,
Down came the troopers, one, two, three.
‘Who’s that jolly jumbuck,you’ve got in your tuckerbag?’
‘You’ll come a-waltzing matilda with me!’
CHORUS:
Waltzing matilda, waltzing matilda,
You’ll come a waltzing matilda with me!
And he sang as he watched and waited till his billy boiled,
You’ll come a-waltzing matilda with me!

22. DURATION (Beat, Rhythm, Accent, Tempo)
All Groups: All instruments
Waltzing Matilda
Up jumped the swagman and sprang into the billabong,
‘You’ll never catch me alive,’ said he!
And his ghost may be heard, as you pass by that billabong,
‘You’ll come a-waltzing matilda with me!
CHORUS:
Waltzing matilda, waltzing matilda,
You’ll come a waltzing matilda with me!
And he sang as he watched and waited till his billy boiled,
You’ll come a-waltzing matilda with me!

23. Structure

24. STRUCTURE: The Storm Graphic score
Page 83, MMADD text (also on vUWS and MMADD website)

25. Music concepts Music concepts, they number 5, PITCH is high and low!
DURATION covers rhythm, beat and tempo (fast and slow).
Listen to the TONE COLOUR of different instruments
DYNAMICS play them loud and soft,
STRUCTURE, same and different!

26. Programming for Music
MMADD page 299
TNECAH p. 259

27. K-6 MUSIC Education
For further information, see Chapter 3 in MMADD: About the Arts: An introduction to Primary Arts Education
by Deirdre Russell-Bowie, published by Pearson Education Australia