Fifth Grade Music Choice Boards

1) Select 2 of the following 9 choice boards for the entire quarter 2) Make a list, take a picture, or record yourself demonstrating the 2 activities of your choice 3) Share the document with me, either in Google classroom, Gmail, or my school email address

Have fun and be musical! Music Choice Boards Information

Music class will be a recorded lesson in Google classroom that students can view at any time. Students are encouraged to watch and participate to the best of their ability.

In addition to watching the videos and participating, students will be given Choice Boards that they may select 2 activities of their choice to complete for the quarter.

You can type your answers, take a picture, or send a video of yourself completing the activity to your music teacher.

The ﬁrst choice activity is due October 2. The second choice activity is due November 13. If you have any questions, please reach out to your music teacher. Music Choice Boards #1-3

Poetry and Lyrics - Song Writing - Design an Album 1 Telling a Story in 2 3 Create a Melody Cover Song Write a 4 verse ballad form - lyrics Write a song in binary form(A section - B only - in ABAB rhyming form. Use a section). A section - verse...B section - Create an album cover using the current events theme - ex. Ballad of Chorus following link: the Pandemic. Tell your story as a Write 3 verses and a chorus: V1 - Chorus - V2 - Chorus - V3 - Chorus. ballad. Watch the selected video - Design an Album Cover Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald as an Go to Chrome Music Lab Songwriter example of a modern ballad based https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.co Follow the directions, create on a true event. m/Song-Maker/ your cover, and post your work

Gordon Lightfoot - Wreck of the Write a melody for A section and a to your music teacher. second for B section. Edmund Fitzgerald Music Choice Boards #4-6

4 Create your Album 5 See the Sound 6 Basic popular music form 12 Bar Blues

You are going to create your ﬁrst You will create a science Students will write a simple 12 bar blues. album. Items needed to be done This can be sung or rapped. or researched are: experiment to see sound waves in action. For this activity you Your song should have 3 verses and a 1) Album title will need items on the list chorus 2) Titles of songs and how provided and follow the steps to many Pick a theme, to have your lyrics be see how sound waves work. based on and write a chorus. 3) Genre of your album Submit a video recording of 4) Instrumentation in each Students will submit their lyrics and a song your sound and science in video of them singing their song 5) Recording session music to your music teacher. 6) Release date Music Choice Boards #7-9

Write A Parody - Pick your 7 8 You’ve Got Talent 9 Lyric Writing Composer

Watch the following FOX is looking for a new You will research 5 music television show and composers from various parody: they heard YOU have an amazing idea! periods of music, listen to

Weird Al Yankovic Parody their music, critique their You will pitch your television music, and submit your show idea to the FOX Pick a folk or traditional executives on why your show research and musical critique song and write a funny is different than any music to your music teacher. parody by changing the lyrics. talent show, and why audiences will watch. Please turn in your choice board to your Music teacher:

Mrs. Manko-Morgan Darby Township School Music Dept. [email protected] [email protected]

Mrs. Erin Sprague Delcroft School [email protected] [email protected]

Mr. James Angelucci Sharon Hill School [email protected] [email protected]

Mr. Joseph Scholl Harris School [email protected] [email protected] Choice Board #1: Poetry and Lyrics Pick a current event(pandemic, election, distance learning…...whatever is important to you). You are going to tell your story as song lyrics.

Write 4 verses in ABAB rhyming form (traditional ballad). See the example:

I love to drive my car, I drive it very fast. It takes me very far, Driving is a blast!

All verses must focus on the same theme/event and use the same rhyming format.

Watch the video of a true event - Gordon Lightfoot - Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald - as an example of a modern style ballad. Choice Board #2: Create a Melody

A two part song or instrumental piece is called a binary form (AB form).

It has an A section - usually called a verse, and a B section - called a chorus/refrain.

Pick a theme or topic - write 2 different verses and one chorus(the B section will repeat between the verses) about your theme. ABAB

Watch the following video clip Home on the Range Home on the Range - a traditional American folk song which is written in AB (binary) form.

Use the Chrome Music Lab link to write 2 different melodies - one for the verse, another for the chorus. https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/Song-Maker/

Record your song and send your work to your music teacher. Choice Board #3: Design an Album Cover

You will be connecting art and music to graphically design your original album cover.

Check out the following link: Design an Album Cover

Follow the directions given in the project and don’t be afraid to be creative!

When you have ﬁnished your project submit your work to your music teacher. Choice Board #4: Create your Album

You are going to plan your ﬁrst album! When piecing it all together, there are a lot of things you need to plan:

1) Your album title (what is the best title for what you are trying to portray) 2) How many songs will your album contain, and what are the names of each song 3) What genre would your music be associated with (Rock, Hip-hop, R&B, Pop, etc) 4) What would your instrumentation be (what instruments would you need for the entire album and/or individual songs 5) Where would you go to record your album?

Once you have planned out your album, submit your work to your music teacher. Choice Board #5: See the Sound Sound vibrations travel through air, water, and even solid objects, but it is not possible to see the waves. What if we could see the waves in another way? This science of sound experiment makes sound more visible by forcing objects to react to the sound vibrations.

Supplies Needed: 1) Empty clear mixing bowl 2) Plastic wrap

3) Large rubber band 4) Sugar crystals (Sugar in the Raw works great)

Steps to seeing Sound Waves:

1) Wrap a sheet of plastic wrap over the mixing bowl so that it is tight, and secure with the large rubber band. Be sure that the plastic wrap is tight and does not sag. 2) Place a few of the sugar crystals on the top of the plastic wrap, placing them in the middle of the wrap. 3) Get close to the sugar crystal and say something loudly! What happens to the crystals? Did they move? 4) Experiment with louder and softer words or sentences to watch the sugar crystals react to the sound vibrations

Write down what you observed with sound waves and how loud and soft sounds react to the crystals. Either write down your ﬁndings and email them, or record yourself discussing your experiment and submit it to your music teacher. Choice Board #6: 12 Bar Blues

A 12-bar blues is divided into three four-bar segments. A standard blues progression, or sequence of notes (melody/lyrics) typically features three chords based on the first (written as I), fourth (IV), and fifth (V) notes of an eight-note scale. The I chord dominates the first four bars; the IV chord typically appears in the second four bars and the V chord is played in the third four bars.

Think of the music you hear, like and enjoy. Songs can tell a story or be written more figuratively so the meaning is left open to the listener. Listen to these examples to give you an idea. You can get as complex or as simple as you desire. Approach the songs like.

Bo Diddley “Who Do You Love” Bo Diddley

B.B King and Stevie Wonder “The Thrill is Gone” B.B. King and Stevie Wonder

This is a backing track you can use to sing over if you want to do a slower Blues Slow Blues Guitar Backing Choice Board #7: Write a Parody

A parody song uses the original music of a song but changes the words to make it funny.

Watch the video of Weird Al Yankovic’s parody of Michael Jackson’s “Beat It”

Weird Al Yankovic Parody Michael Jackson -- Beat It

Choose a song you know - a folk song, children’s song , nursery rhyme, etc.

Rewrite the words of the song using your own funny ones! Make sure the words ﬁt the rhythm and melody of the original song.

When you are ﬁnished, submit your parody as a Word or Google document to your music teacher. Choice Board #8: You’ve Got Talent! FOX is looking for a new music television show and they heard YOU have an amazing idea! A show that is completely different than any other music show on television.

You are going to pitch your idea to the executives at Fox for your big break!

Your music television pitch should include:

1) The name of your show 2) How it is different than all other music shows on television (currently or in the past) 3) How auditions will be held 4) What the ﬁnal prize will be 5) What will keep audiences engaged and coming back for more 6) Why your show is the next big idea 7) Create a jingle/theme music for the show’s opening

Submit your completed work to your music teacher. Choice Board #9: Pick your Composers Choose 5 composers from the list below:

1) Ludwig van Beethoven As you research your 5 composers, ﬁnd the 2) Johannes Brahms following: 3) Leonard Bernstein 4) Claude Debussy 10 facts about their life 5) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 6) George Gershwin How did they inﬂuence the music and the 7) John Williams 8) Aaron Copland musicians after their time? 9) Johann Sebastian Bach 10) Igor Stravinsky Listen to at least 3 of their pieces in their 11) Andrew Lloyd Webber entirety. What did you think? Would you listen 12) John Cage to more of their music? Please list the pieces 13) Franz Liszt your chose. 14) Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 15) Gustav Mahler Submit written work to your music teacher. 16) Frederic Chopin