Professional Documents
Culture Documents
MAT 300
Repertoire List
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Songs
o Scales, Feathers, or Fur Music with Mar.
http://www.songsforteaching.com/animals/musicwithmar-scalesfeathers-fur.htm
o Save our World Brian Schellinger
http://www.songsforteaching.com/earthdaysongs/saveourworld.
htm
o The Water Cycle - Lauren Mayer
http://www.songsforteaching.com/curriculumrocks/watercycle.ht
m
o Mind Your Manners Amy Sadanaga
http://www.songsforteaching.com/goodmanners/mindyourmann
ers.php
o These are the Rules Sharon Luanne Rivera
http://songsforteaching.com/artappreciationsongs/hues/thesear
etherules.htm
o Gonna Name our States Music with Mar.
http://www.songsforteaching.com/socialstudies/unitedstates/mu
sicwithmar-gonnanameourstates.htm
o Native Americans Josh Ledbetter
http://www.songsforteaching.com/ledbetter/nativeamericans.ht
m
o A Circle & A Ball & A Box & A Square Ken Whiteley
http://www.songsforteaching.com/math/geometry/acircleballbox
square.htm
o Telling Time Jennifer Fixman
http://www.songsforteaching.com/jennyfixmanedutunes/tellingti
me.htm
o Act Out the Alphabet Jack Hartman
http://www.songsforteaching.com/alphabetsongs/actoutthealpha
bet.htm
Recordings
o Light Calvary Overture Franz Von Suppe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFQpPbjJWTc
o Night on Bald Mountain Mussorgsky
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCEDfZgDPS8
o 5th Symphony Ludwig van Beethoven
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4IRMYuE1hI
o Moonlight Sonata Ludwig van Beethoven
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Tr0otuiQuU
Toccata and Fugue in D Minor Johann Sebastian Bach
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ho9rZjlsyYY
This song discusses a few different types of animals and if they are covered in
scales, feathers, or fur. I think this song would be a good introduction to a lesson
about the classifications of different animals based on different characteristics. I
would like to write fur, feathers, scales as three separate headings on the board. I
would then I would play the song and sing it along with my students, stopping after
the three middle stanzas (fur, feathers, scales) to ask the students to list more
animals that may have that characteristic (which I would write on the board
underneath each heading).
Alabama, Alaska
Arizona, Arkansas
California, Colorado
Montana, Nebraska
Nevada, New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico, New York
North Carolina, North Dakota
Ohio
Connecticut, Delaware
Florida, Georgia,
Hawaii, Idaho
Illinois, Indiana
Iowa, Kansas
Kentucky, Louisiana
Maine, Maryland
Massachusetts, Michigan
Minnesota, Mississippi
Missouri
Oklahoma, Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island, South Carolina
South Dakota, Tennessee
Texas, Utah
Vermont, Virginia, Washington
West Virginia,
Wisconsin
Wyoming
Hallelujah, the 50 States we did sing,
Hallelujah, the 50 States we did sing.
This song has some pretty obvious useful implications in the class room it lists out
all of the states in a fun and easy to remember melody. I would use this song to help
students memorize all 50 states and where they are located on the map. I would
play the song and have the students sing it with me and would point to each state
on the map as we sang that state. After we had studied the states for a while and
the students had the chance to memorize the song, I would play it and ask students
to volunteer to come up and point to the states as we went thought the song in my
place. I would stop the song if the student pointed to the incorrect state and we as a
class would get them to the correct answer before resuming.
Telling Time
I can tell time on the clock. I watch as
the second hand goes tick tock.
The small hand tell the hour. The big
hand tells the minute.
Each time the big hand moves, the
times a little different.
I love that this song goes through every hour on the clock, and I would use it with
my students to model what each time looks like after a lesson on the parts of a
clock and how clocks work. I would ask students to stand up and space out, and
would have them model the times with their arms as the song progresses. One of
their arms would be the hour hand, and the other would be the minute hand, and as
the song played they would have to move their arms to the correct positions.
Today weve had some fun acting You did your best to act out the
alphabet!
I like that this song would get students moving while they sing the alphabet,
increasing the likelihood that they would remember it. I would play this song and
sing it along with students as I played a slide show that shows each letter as we
sing about it. So as the song is playing and the letters are being shown, students
will be dancing around and acting out the word that starts with that letter.
5th Symphony
This symphony is filled with contrasting pieces of music dramatic and gentle, loud
then soft, high then low. I would use this piece to promote a discussion about
contrast, particularly in writing or literature. I would ask students to listen for parts
in the song that seem to contradict one another, or sound very drastically different.
I would then ask students to describe what they heard based on this and then
transition into a lesson about contrast possibly about writing a compare and
contrast essay.
Moonlight Sonata
This song is very calming, and has a lot of soothing melodies mostly in the first
half. I would use this to create a calming environment in my classroom as the
students are having some sort of down time or are supposed to be quiet. I could
also play this as they are coming in from recess or gym class and are feeling
particularly rowdy as a way to calm them down again and get them ready for
learning.