Sound Structures
for
Creative Musicians
Geary County Schools
Professional Development
Monday, February 12, 2018
Connie Van Engen, presenter
\eGeary County, Kansas
February 12, 2018
xePreparatory Play:
+ Capture the imagination.
+ Create an environment safe for taking the risk to
learn.
« Establish artistry within community.
[Acknowledge different starting places}
+ Invite students on a journey.
yeImitation:
+ Fosters skill and technique acquisition,
+ Builds vocabulary.
+ The student learns from a model.
+ 3 types of imitation-simultaneous, echo, canonic.
veExploration:
+ Guided practice of a specific skill or concept.
+ Transfer to different media, a questioning phase,
“What happens if...”
+ Collaboration is a powerful tool.
+ Performance is encouraged (Individual, small group,
large group).
veImprovisation:
+ Performance and application of the skill or content “in
the moment”.
+ The Performer makes informed decisions drawn from
experiences in imitation and exploration, seeking to
speak something new in the language they know.
+ This step can lead to composition.
+ Improvisational structures can guide student choice.
Elemental music is never just music. It's bound up with
movement, dance and speech, and so it is a form of
music in which one must participate, in which one is
involved not as a listener but as a co-performer.
Carl Orff
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Imitation:
Simultaneous Imitation:
Is initiated by the leader
and copied by the
students at the moment
it is performed. Mirroring
and shadowing are
variations of
simultaneous imitation.
YE cho Imitation:
Is demonstrated by the
leader and copied
immediately by the
student in another
medium. (Movement,
body percussion, voice,
instrument)
v¥Canonic Imitation:
Is performed as a delayed
echo.
Improvisational
Structures:
+Student-led Imitation
‘veRhythmic Building Bricks
‘4 and 8-beat phrase
structures
‘Rhythms to be Completed
‘Speech Rhyme
v*yoi, yoi, yoi” - Cross hands over chest and trade places _—_yinvite students to echo
with partner.
)-cha laka..” Clap own hands, then partners
~“Hoil” - Jump and turn 180 degrees to face a
making gesture for rock, paper or scissors.
‘~The victor puts hands in the air, the defeated
‘<4-beat Framework: oO oO oO oO
Fa)
Rock Paper
“rock” and "paper" patterns
hands. on recorder using A, G and E.
new partner, Transfer the melody of the
‘song to the recorder.
ee ‘eThe victor will lead echo
imitation on the recorder.
Limit the imitation to one
pitch per pattern.
Connie Van Engen, presenter 7Geary County, Kansas
February 12, 2018
Bu
BY
3/4 Rhythmic Building Bricks
Create expanded bricks by replacing
quarter notes with two eighth notes.
2iJjd 33 J
24d 24
Tennis Ball Pattern
Bounce (dominant hand)
Catch (non-dominant hand)
Pass (back to dominant hand)
Try it on a Tubano or a bass bar
Traveling Action
walk ~ jump - sneak - strut - march
In-Place Action
stretch - rise - sink - turn - pee ‘float
Final Form:
Introduction: Shaker pattern begins and
continues throughout.
A section: Hand drummers move and perform
the rhythmic structure pattern, Tubano players
perform the metric accents.
B Section: Hand Drummers play the underlined
speech, Tubano players play all the speech.
section: Hand drummers move and perform
the rhythmic structure pattern, Tubano players
perform the metric accents.
‘Coda: Hand drums improvise and move off the
stage, Tubano players decresendo on metric
accents until silent, shakers are the last to
fade away.
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Teaching Process: