in collaboration with Remarkable Farkle McBride Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Ken Lam, conductor Becky Mossing, narrator Brandon Du, violin Actors from Baltimore School for the Arts Creative and TINY TOTS ● PreK-Kindergarten Innovative Lesson PRIME TIME ● Grades 1-3 Seeds, Sprouts and Resources STEAM Tuesday, April 28, 2015 10am & 11:30am activated Thursday, April 30, 2015 Arts integrated 10am & 11:30am REMARKABLE FARKLE McBRIDE TABLE OF CONTENTS ● OVERVIEW INTRODUCTION ● page 2 CONCERT SUMMARY ● page 3 HOW TO USE THIS GUIDE ● page 4 A SNAPSHOT OF REMARKABLE FARKLE McBRIDE● page 5 A SNAPSHOT OF THE OVERTURE TO MARRIAGE OF FIGARO ● page 7 LESSON PLAN SEEDS LANGUAGE ARTS ACTIVITIES FARKLE McBRIDE POEM ● page 19 SEED 1 ● page 9 Welcome to the family: All about READING LIST FROM ENOCH PRATT instrument families FREE LIBRARY ● page 20 SEED 2 ● page 10 STEM CONNECTION ACTIVITIES The earlier the better! The life of a SCIENCE OF SOUND PreK-1 ● page 23 child prodigy SCIENCE OF SOUND Grades 2-3 ● page 24 SEEING SOUND ● page 25 SEED 3 ● page 11 SOUND AMPLIFICATION ● page 26 Who is the person waving their MAKING A DOUBLE REED ● page 27 arms in front of the orchestra? SEED 4 ● page 12 TEACHER RESOURCES All about overtures and operas WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART ● page 28 LISTENING GUIDE REMARKABLE FARKLE MCBRIDE PRE AND POST CONCERT ACTIVITIES STRINGS ● page 13 YOUR VISIT TO THE MEYERHOFF ● page 30 WOODWINDS ● page 14 FIELD TRIP REVIEW ● page 31 BRASS ● page 15 PERCUSSION ● page 16 ADDITIONAL RESOURCES CONDUCTING ● page 17 BOOKS & MUSIC ● page 32 COMPARE AND CONTRAST ● page 18 SCIENCE ● page 33 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS SPECIAL THANKS ● page 34 1 INTRODUCTION ● Welcome to the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s Teachers’ Resource Guide! We are delighted you will be joining us, along with educators and students from across the state of Maryland and beyond, for the BSO’s 2014-15 Midweek Education Concerts. The Remarkable Farkle McBride Midweek Concerts are all about youth! We’ll celebrate young composers, young performers, young audiences, the young Farkle McBride, and then the youth in all of us! With selections from Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro, Lalo’s Symphonie Espagnol performed by fifth grader Brandon Du, Rossini’s William Tell Overture, Rimsky-Korsakov’s Flight of the Bumble Bee and more, the audience will dazzle in the delights of youth at its best and learn about the instrument families along the way. Then we’ll explore Remarkable Farkle McBride, a playful story of a young boy who learns to play a variety of instruments of the orchestra. The story, with its loveable yet boisterous character, is also an excellent opportunity to explore the instruments of the orchestra with your students. We also hope you find this charming story and music a fun way to explore science of sound through sound waves, acoustics and the physics of sound production, and in its book form, to dive into relevant language arts connections. Inside this guide you will find unique classroom ideas (in the form of seeds and sprouts) and suggested classroom activities to help prepare your students for their upcoming concert visit. The guide was designed by a handpicked team of teachers from a range of counties across Maryland, with specialism in music and science. In order to strengthen the STEAM connections, this guide was also produced in consultation with Michael Karweit, a member of the BSO Science Advisory team, and recently retired Research Professor at Johns Hopkins University in the Dept. of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. Additionally we worked in close collaboration with Arts Education in Maryland Schools Alliance (AEMS), to ensure these resources meet a high standard for educators. We hope you find the resources exciting, engaging, and invaluable as you plan your upcoming concert visit and we so look forward to seeing you at the Meyerhoff! Annemarie Guzy Director of Education Baltimore Symphony Orchestra 2 CONCERT SUMMARY ● Here’s what’s in store for your concert experience! . Mozart: Overture to Marriage of Figaro . Lalo: Symphony espagnole, 1st Movement performed by Brandon Du, age 10 . Instrument Family Demos: Selections from Rossini: Overture to William Tell Selections from Saint-Saëns: “Fossils” from Carnival of the Animals Rimsky-Korsakov: “Flight of the Bumblebee” from Tsar Sultan . Bill Elliot: The Remarkable Farkle McBride performed by Actors from Baltimore School for the Arts . Brahms: Hungarian Dance No. 5 . J. Strauss, Jr: Ohne Sorgen 3 HOW TO USE THIS GUIDE ● Lesson Plan Seeds and Sprouts Choose one or grow your own! Seed Inside this guide you will find four lesson “seed” suggestions. Think of the lesson seed as a topic. Each seed has an objective, essential questions, standards, and resources. Sprout Each seed has suggested “sprouts” or ideas that grow out of the seed. As you grow the sprouts, look to the resource list on each page. This list contains resources that are provided within this teachers’ guide, as well as a range of additional resources you may wish to use. Grow your own! We hope one of our lesson ideas will spark a new idea for you and your students. Encourage collaboration with other teachers in your building, and create your own arts-integrated seeds & sprouts. Don’t leave your concert experience behind at the Meyerhoff! Use another sprout as a follow-up activity, use one of our suggested closure activities, or use our wrap-up worksheet. Tell us what you think by sharing your feedback and ideas with the BSO! 4 A SNAPSHOT OF THE REMARKABLE FARKLE McBRIDE ● FACETS MODEL Book – 2000 Music – Bill Elliott Music – 2002 Book – John United States Lithgow To Hear encourage each instrument children to try individually out musical then hear The instruments them all Remarkable Farkle The Repeating explorations melody for of a musical each McBride prodigy instrument Four musical Connects the instrument story to sounds families, and the of instruments role of the conductor The Facets Model is adapted from Barrett, J. R., McCoy, C. W., & Veblen, K. K. (1997). Sound ways of knowing: Music in the interdisciplinary curriculum. New York, NY: Schirmer Books. Used with permission of the author. 5 A SNAPSHOT OF THE REMARKABLE FARKLE McBRIDE ● IN DEPTH Who created it? The book was written by John Lithgow and illustrated by C.F. Payne. The music, based on the book, was composed by Bill Elliott. When and where was the work created? The book was written in 2000, and the music was composed in 2002. Both were created in the United States. Why was it created? John Lithgow wrote this book to inspire children to explore instruments of the orchestra and then hear all the instruments together at a symphony concert. Two years later, Bill Elliott worked with John Lithgow to compose the music to match the story. Subject: What is the subject of the work? Farkle McBride is a musical prodigy who learns to play instruments from each of the four musical instrument families of the orchestra. Out of frustration, Farkle eventually gives up playing the instruments before he discovers his passion for conducting, and how much he loves the sound of all the instruments when they play together in an orchestra. Content: What is being expressed? In this piece, students learn about instruments and their families in the symphony orchestra. Students also discover more about the role of a conductor and how the instruments come together to form a symphony orchestra. Techniques: What techinques did the composer use to help us understand what is being expressed? The music follows the storyline, and as Farkle explores each instrument students hear each instrument alone and can begin to appreciate tone, timbre and range. There are other story events (like crashes!) that are also described through the music. Form: What is the structure or form of the work? As each instrument appears in the story, the melody returns. Sound: What does the piece sound like? Through the course of the story, students hear a repeating melody played by a variety of instruments, and then the sound of the whole orchestra playing all together. 6 A SNAPSHOT OF THE OVERTURE TO MARRIAGE OF FIGARO ● FACETS MODEL Wolfgang 1786 Amadeus Vienna, Mozart Austria Joyous To create a Happy Comic opera Busy (opera buffa) Overture to Marriage of Figaro A silly Essentially comedy about Sonata Form romance and pranks Lots of surprises An exciting with sudden and hectic twists and turns mood 7 A SNAPSHOT OF THE OVERTURE TO THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO ● IN DEPTH Who created it? The composer was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. When and where was the work created? Mozart wrote the work in 1786 in Vienna, Austria at the age of 30. Why was it created? Count Orsini-Rosenburg, director of the Burgtheater, invited Mozart to write an opera buffa (comic opera). Subject: What is the subject of the work? This comic opera is a silly story about romance and pranks. Content: What is being expressed? This overture is unique as it doesn’t actually preview any thematic music from the opera itself. Instead, it conveys a hectic, boisterous and busy mood, using thematic material that only appears in the overture. Techniques: What techinques did the composer use to help us understand what is being expressed? This piece is full of sudden dynamic changes and twists and turns in the music to make it feel exciting and is very characteristic of Mozart. Form: What is the structure or form of the work? The form of the overture is essentially a sonata form. Sound: What does the piece sound like? The overture sounds joyous, happy, excited and busy. 8 LESSON PLAN SEEDS ● STEAM Activated –Arts Integrated THE MUSIC: THE REMARKABLE FARKLE McBRIDE SEED 1: Sprout 1: Discuss, describe and Welcome to the family: draw instruments of the STRING and WOODWIND families.