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    Samantha Burr

    8th Grade General Music


    Teaching a New Song
    MUS 149: Social Foundations of Music Education

    Context:

    ❖ Basic knowledge of simple rhythms such as eighth notes, quarter notes, half
    notes, and dotted rhythms.
    ❖ Basic knowledge of simple melodies such as scalar and a few skips.
    ❖ Solfege

    Essential Question:

    ❖ How do you properly sight sing?

    Standards:

    ❖ MU:Cr1.1.8a Generate rhythmic, melodic and harmonic phrases and harmonic


    accompaniments within expanded forms (including introductions, transitions, and
    codas) that convey expressive intent.
    ❖ MU:Pr4.2.8c Identity how cultural and historical context inform performances and
    result in different musical effects.
    ❖ MU:Pr5.1.5b Rehearse to refine technical accuracy and expressive qualities to
    address challenges, and show improvement over time.
    ❖ MU:Re8.1.7a Support personal interpretation of contrasting programs of music
    and explain how creators’ or performers’ apply the elements of music and
    expressive qualities, within genres, cultures, and historical periods to convey
    expressive intent.
    ❖ MU:Cn10.0.8a Demonstrate how interests, knowledge, and skills relate to
    personal choices and intent when creating, performing, and responding to music.

    Learning Outcomes:

    1. Students will sight sing “This Land is Your Land” using correct solfege and hand
    symbols.
    2. Students will interpret the meaning behind this song.
    3. Students will compare this song to different genres to fully appreciate the style in
    which the song is performed.
    4. Students will demonstrate the dynamic contrast of the piece by using the
    background knowledge of the piece’s history.
    Materials:

    ❖ Students will be provided with sheet music.


    ➢ Pinterest. Free Lead Sheet – This Land Is Your Land. Retrieved from
    https://www.pinterest.com/pin/425238389807596932/
    ❖ Students will be provided with a paper with the history of the piece (attached at
    the bottom).
    ❖ Open space so students can move.
    ❖ Students will need a pencil to write in the solfege.

    Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations:

    ❖ Solfege: A method of sight singing that uses the syllables do (originally ut), re,
    mi, fa, sol (or so), la, and si (or ti) to represent the seven principal pitches of the
    scale, most commonly the major scale
    ➢ Solfège. Solfège - Wiktionary. Retrieved from
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/solf%C3%A8ge
    ❖ Triad: a chord of three tones consisting of a root with its third and fifth and
    constituting the harmonic basis of tonal music
    ➢ Triad. Merriam-Webster. Retrieved from https://www.merriam-
    webster.com/dictionary/triad

    Procedures:

    ❖ The students will be handed two sheets of paper as they enter (the history of the
    song and composer and the sheet music).
    ❖ The C major triad will be given and the students will be asked to stand in a circle
    by the piano.
    ❖ Once they are in a circle the C major triad will be played again and the students
    will be asked to sing the C major scale using solfege.
    ❖ The students will then be asked to sight sing the song using solfege (teacher will
    lead students in this).
    ❖ Once the song is sung correctly using solfege the students will then be asked to
    sing it again using text without hand signs.
    ❖ Discuss the history of the song and ask for the students’ thoughts.
    ❖ Have a group discussion about similar and contrasting genres of music.

    Assessment:
    1. The teacher will visually and aurally assess the students’ solfege and hand signs
    by traveling around the circle to hear each individual student in a more efficient
    and accurate way.
    a. ✓+ Correct solfege and hand signs
    b. ✓ Either correct solfege or correct hand signs
    c. ✓- Some correct solfege or hand signs
    2. The teacher will aurally assess the students’ interpretation of the song through a
    group discussion of their own interpretations.
    3. The teacher will have an exit ticket in which the students will have to provide a
    song of a similar genre and a contrasting genre.
    4. The teacher will aurally assess the students interpretation of the song through
    dynamics.

    Extension of Lessons:

    Students will sight sing more efficiently and accurately by learning how to use solfege.
    They will also learn how to accurately perform solfege after hearing the major triad.

    Honor Code
    I affirm that I will uphold the highest principles of honesty and integrity in all my
    endeavors at Gettysburg College and foster an atmosphere of mutual respect within
    and beyond the classroom.
    Samantha Burr
    The History of “This Land is Your Land”

    ❖ Was written by Woodrow Wilson Guthrie


    ➢ Guthrie was born in 1912
    ➢ Born in Okemah, Ohio
    ❖ The song was written in 1944
    ➢ Written for Moses Asch in New York
    ➢ Asch founded Folkways Records
    ➢ Guthrie wrote it while on leave from the Merchant Marines
    ➢ Written during the Great Depression
    ❖ As a young boy/man Guthrie was a talented entertainer.
    ➢ He performed in the streets- dancing, playing guitar and harmonica, and
    made up many songs as he went.
    ➢ This is how his passion for music and song writing grew.
    ❖ This song reflects Guthrie’s discontent with what was occurring during the
    Depression and the greediness he was witnessing.

    Citations:

    https://www.npr.org/2000/07/03/1076186/this-land-is-your-land

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