Strategy Share: Music!

1. Strategy Share: Music! Dalcroze Eurhythmics, Gordon Music Learning Theory, Active Listening Presented By:Braden McCloskey, Betsy Pratt, & SuziSpiese

2. Strategy #1: Dalcroze Eurhythmics • Émile Jaques-Dalcroze • Eurhythmics: means “good rhythm” in Greek • Kinesthetic learning • Gross and fine motor skills • Concepts: rhythm, structure, musical expression Have fun!

3. Don’t be these guys

4. What Did We Just Learn?! Dalcroze Eurhythmics Want to hear more? Check out Betsy’s Spotify Playlist: General Music Dalcroze Eurhythmics 

5. Happy from Despicable Me 2– PharrellWilliams • Structure • “chorus”: recurring melody; normally repetitive; considered the “subject” • “verse”: variant wording provides the “plot builder” or “storyline” • Phrasing • “phrase”: a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence

6. “The Butterfly”—Celtic Woman • Meter • “triple” meter: basic metrical pattern of three beats in a measure • “duple” meter: two (or a multiple of two) beats in a measure

7. Best Day of My Life—American Authors • Structure • “call and response”: a form of interaction between musicians, in which the first phrase elicits direct commentary from the second phrase • Rests • “rest”: a musical notation indicating silence of a specified duration

8. Strategy #2: Gordon Learning Theory Edwin E. Gordon Known  unknown Whole- Part- Whole Learning Sequence Aural/Oral Verbal Association Partial Synthesis Symbolic Association Composite Synthesis Audiation

9. Recorder Basics– How do you even hold this thing?

11. Tonal Patterns (Neutral Syllables)– Such as “Loo” or “La” (But hopefully not “wahh”) Aural/Oral

12. Rhythmic Patterns—Micro/Macro Beats Verbal Association

13. Tonal Patterns (Solfege)—As in “Do a deer, a female deer…” DO RE MI FA SOL LA TI DO Verbal Association

14. Identify Rhythm Patterns Partial Synthesis

15. Identify Tonal Patterns Partial Synthesis

16. Put It Together & Let’s Read Some Music!—Rhythm & Tonal Patterns Hot Cross Buns Symbolic Association Composite Synthesis