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VCU <strong>Basic</strong> <strong>Orff</strong> <strong>2013</strong><br />

Brent Holl, Instructor<br />

• Create a melody by pointing to the lines with a mallet, add sol mi, letter names.<br />

• Trade mallet for chalk, draw notes on the staff then sing.<br />

• Draw a series of notes left to right and sing.<br />

• Add hand signs.<br />

Step kids:<br />

❧❧<br />

Ask on student to kneel and another to stand. Kneel is mi and stand is so. A student can<br />

play the people by pointing over their heads.<br />

Homework Assignment for Session 3:<br />

1. Write out a bitonic song using the text of a favorite rhyme or poem on staff paper in full score.<br />

• Use only So and Mi.<br />

• Use only the keys of G, C, F, or D.<br />

• Pay careful attention to the notation of the rhythm.<br />

• Make the melody safe, simple, and singable! (no masterpieces please!).<br />

2. Find two examples of bitonic songs in any of your source books and analyze the accompaniments.<br />

Share your observations with the class.<br />

Homework helper activities:<br />

Let it Snow (Michael Nichols, Seasons and Holidays, p. 27)<br />

Let It Snow<br />

Michael R. Nichols<br />

& c œ œ<br />

œ Œ Œ œ œ<br />

œ<br />

Œ Œ œ œ<br />

1<br />

œ œ œ œ<br />

Let<br />

Let<br />

it<br />

it<br />

snow!<br />

snow!<br />

& œ Œ Œ .<br />

sled.<br />

Let it<br />

Let it<br />

snow,<br />

snow,<br />

so that<br />

and I<br />

2<br />

œ œ œ œ œ œ<br />

pro -mise not to bump my<br />

I<br />

œ<br />

head!<br />

can ride my<br />

Œ<br />

Œ<br />

Aim:<br />

❧❧<br />

Reinforcement of hand signs for bitonic melody (so and mi)<br />

Process:<br />

❧❧<br />

Introduce/review the Curwin hand signs for so and mi. (See page 25)<br />

Day3:22

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