Music Bili Unit 6 All That Jazz

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UNIT 6 – ALL THAT JAZZ!!!!

PERCUSSION AND ELECTRONIC INSTRUMENTS

ALL THAT JAZZ

1. PERCUSSION INSTRUMENTS

Definition: A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound by being hit, shaken, rubbed, scraped , or by any other action which makes the object vibrate .

History: The human voice was the first musical instrument, but percussion instruments such as hands and feet, then sticks, rocks, and logs were probably the next steps in the evolution of music. The earliest percussion instruments were our hands and feet, then objects such as sticks, logs, and rocks. As human communities developed tools for hunting and agriculture, they began to invent more complex instruments. For example, a simple log was carved to produce louder tones (a log drum).

A LOG DRUM

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MATCH THE ACTIONS IN THE PHOTOS

1 RUBBING

HITTING

SHAKING 2

SCRAPING

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Classification: Percussion instruments are sometimes classified into TUNED (or “pitched”) and UNTUNED (or “unpitched”).

TUNED: These percussion instruments can produce low or high sounds – they can be tuned. In general, they have plates (láminas) of wood or metal (for example the xylophone, or tubes (for example, the tubular bells)

A XYLOPHONE A VIBRAPHONE A GLOCKENSPIEL TUBULAR BELLS

UNTUNED: These percussion instruments do not produce different high or low notes. They make indeterminate sounds and they accompany other musical instruments. They are important because they give rhythm to a piece of music. We can classify them into two types: 1. Instruments which have a skin (or membrane) – for example, the bass drum, the snare drum, the tambourine. 2. Instruments which don’t have a skin – for example, the cymbals, the triangle, the gong, the castanets.

CYMBALS TAMBOURINES BASS DRUM CASTANETS

INFORMATION: http://www.music.vt.edu/musicdictionary/textp/PercussionInstruments.html

LISTEN AND WATCH : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVqvNKsPKUM&NR=1 (Ginger Baker – drum solo) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOfsr9D-KXU (Travis Barker – snare drum solo)

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A DRUM KIT

QUESTIONS ABOUT PERCUSSION INSTRUMENTS: 1. What is a percussion instrument? …………………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………………… ……………………………………………………………………………………………

2. Translate into Spanish these words: a. HITTING ……………………………….. b. SCRAPING ……………………………….. c. SHAKING ……………………………….. d. RUBBING ………………………………..

3. Classify the following instruments into TUNED or UNTUNED: a. Bass drum ...... b. Tubular bells ………………. c. Glockenspiel ………………. d. Cymbals ………………. e. Xylophone ………………. f. Tambourine ……………….

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4. What are the two kinds of untuned percussion instruments? Give examples. …………………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………………… ……………………………………………………………………………………………

ACTIVITY:

LABEL THE DIFFERENT ELEMENTS OF A STANDARD DRUM KIT

A DRUM KIT

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2. ELECTRONIC INSTRUMENTS These are instruments that need an electric current (corriente eléctrica) so that we can play them, or so that we can amplify the sound. This is the most recent family of musical instruments – many were invented in the 20 th century. We can classify these instruments into two kinds: 1. Electric instruments: they generate sound electronically (mechanically) and we make the sound louder with an amplifier . Examples include: the electric organ and the electric guitar.

AN ELECTRIC GUITAR KIT

2. Electronic musical instruments: they produce sounds by electronics – for example, the synthesizer.

A SYNTHESIZER

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3. THE HISTORY OF JAZZ The Origins Jazz is a mixture of two different musical traditions – African and European. It began in the 19 th century when black African slaves were taken to work in plantations in North America. During the 19 th century many of the slaves were converted to Christianity. Texts from the Bible – especially the Old Testament – reminded the slaves of their miserable life: this is how gospel music was born. Also, blues was born as a kind of music sung by the black slaves – it was a mixture of work songs and ballads and it expressed great sadness and nostalgia for their African roots. At the end of the 19 th century another kind of music appeared – ragtime – which was very dynamic piano music. Listen to “The Entertainer” by Scott Joplin: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cFkae0j_Ns

Jazz was born from the mixture of these different styles of music, together with military music and traditional European dance music. It is still very popular.

ACTIVITY

FIND OUT INFORMATION (IN ENGLISH) ABOUT THE FOLLOWING JAZZ ARTISTS:

Louis Armstrong Count Basie Bix Beiderbecke Duke Ellington Ella Fitzgerald Dizzy Gillespie Benny Goodman Billie Holiday Miles Davis John Coltrane

TO HELP YOU, LOOK AT THIS WEBSITE: http://www.jalc.org/jazzED/j4yp_curr/launcher.html Very good page on jazz for kids

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