LISTENING GUIDE EARTH, WIND & FIRE’S “SEPTEMBER” Meets National Core Arts Standards 1 and 7

OBJECTIVES • Throughout these sections, is the bass part simple, outlining • Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work (Cr1) the chord progression, or something more complex and me- • Perceive and analyze artistic work (Re7) lodic? (Something more complex and melodic.) • What sort of effect does the bass have on the music? (It contrib- MATERIALS utes to the groove in a big way.) • Music Alive! magazines (November 2017) • Do you hear different chord progressions in the different • Music Alive! ClassroomWorksheets #5: Music Review sections? (No, it’s basically just one chord progression repeating Journal and #12: Staff Paper (download at musicalive.com) throughout.) • Computer or mobile device with Internet access • What, then, keeps the song interesting? (The variations on what the instruments play—or don’t play—in each section. For example, START the horns sit out for most of the rst verse, then reenter to create Ask your students to read “Listening Guide” on pages 18-19. excitement; the synthesized strings don’t enter until the second verse, etc.) DEVELOP Play “September” by Earth,Wind & Fire (Hear the Music track 8 on musicalive.com) a few times, while having the students follow along with the timeline. After that, ask them to do the Music Review Journal CLOSE worksheet. Give the students the staff paper worksheet or ask them to use notation software. Lead them in transcribing a simpli ed, two-bar ASK version of the main guitar part at the beginning of the recording • Are the rhythms the lead guitar plays in the intro mostly (shown here in notation, at pitch). Play the recording repeatedly, or on the beat, or more syncopated? (More syncopated.) play the part on the piano or guitar. Give students clues, like the key • What’s the main note value played by the secondary signature or the starting note. After the students are nished notating guitar in the intro? (16th note.) the part, gather the manuscripts or les and check them. • When the kick drum enters, what beats does it play on? ASSESS (Beats 1 and 3.) • Did the students read the Listening Guide? • In what measure of the verse do the horns enter? • Did they listen to the song using the timeline (The end of the sixth measure.) and complete the Music Review Journal? • Do the synthesized strings extend into the chorus? (Yes.) • Did they answer the supplemental questions? • Do you hear them in the third verse? (Yes.) • Did they transcribe the guitar part? • What note value do the horns play at 1:30? (16th note.)

CLASSICAL BE MY GUEST PORTUGAL. November THE MAN REVOLUTIONS, PT. 1 1. “While My Guitar 2017 1. Rebirth Gently Weeps” 1. Guitar QUIZ 2. Between 1400 and 1600 in 2. Stevie Wonder 2. Eric Clapton Europe 3. David Bowie 3. False ANSWERS 3. Josquin des Prez, Giovanni 4. RobThomas 4. John Gourley This month’s quizzes Pierluigi da Palestrina, and 5. Early 2000s are available at Orlande de Lassus 5. Rap and hip-hop 6. 2006 musicalive.com/ 4. Canzona and toccata 6. Jay-Z the-quiz-zone- 7. Evil Friends 5. Monody 7. Tr u e november-2017. 8. Gotye and Kimbra 8. Woodstock Here are the 6. A low-voiced part written to be played on any instrument 9. Jeff Bhasker 9. False quiz answers: with a low register 10. Mark Ronson 10. His having been paralyzed 7. L’Orfeo from the waist down due to an accident. 8. Claudio Monteverdi 9. Giulio Caccini ROB VERHORST/REDFERNS 10. Tr u e MUSICALIVE.COM • November 2017 • 5