Today, Mrs. Tuell's class finished their musical pen pal video to send to Donegal Primary School. They selected "Fast Dance," an Orff instrument arrangement from Music for Children: Vol. 2 (American Edition). Our journey with this piece of music started as a form review. The original piece is performed as ABA form, however, we only learned the A section of the song for our performance. The students also used this piece to review contours and harmony.
After the entire class learned the melody, we worked on adding two different simple ostinati as our harmony. I helped the students to identify parts that they were successful with and we determined who would play each part. The students were also challenged to add movement to this piece and body percussion was agreed upon. After designing the body percussion movement, several students volunteered to be in movers instead of instrumentalists for our performance. We video taped several times and discussed our progress in our videos. A final form was decided (intro, A section with movement, A section with glockenspiel harmony added, coda) and we are excited to be sending out our final performance today.
Take a look at what Mrs. Tuell's class created:
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