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VCU Basic Orff 2013 Brent Holl, Instructor Day 5: The Bordun Aim: ❧❧ Experiment with and discover the Bordun. ❧❧ Find the types and possibilities. ❧❧ Find some melodic ostinatos to combine with Borduns. ❧❧ Use as a sound carpet to improvise in pentatonic. ❧❧ Learn the four basic types of Bordun. ❧❧ The Level Bordun ❧❧ The Broken Chord Bordun ❧❧ The Crossover Bordun ❧❧ The Chord Bordun If the knitter is weary, The baby will have no new bonnet. - Irish Saying Gentle Breezes (from Canons Too! by BMH, p. 22) Aim: ❧❧ Play and sing in canon with a Bordun accompaniment. ❧❧ Introduce the elements of a Bordun orchestration. Process: ❧❧ Add orchestration. ❧❧ Modified Crossover Bordun. ❧❧ Tone color in the Glockenspiels. ❧❧ Drone bass note on C. Day4:38
“Improvisation is the starting point for elemental music making” (Orff, Carl. The Schulwerk, p. 22). “A particular kind of improvisation resulted from the use of the pentatonic scale. Over an ostinato bass several melodies could be improvised simultaneously or in question and answer phrases... Since there were no semi tones in this exercise, and therefore no dissonance tensions, the different voices came together in a kind of oscillation. Once the structure of the pentatonic scale had been grasped, the improvisations arose of their own accord, with question and answer phrasing and imitation emphasizing formal relationships. (Orff, p. 29) The Bordun VCU Basic Orff 2013 Brent Holl, Instructor Simple Bordun - “A harmony of the fifth interval based upon the first and fifth degree, so that there is only one harmony, the harmony of the first degree chord” (Wuytack ‘79). “The drone is the most important and most widely found form of part singing and playing. While one voice provides the melody the other sustains one note, the key note or fundamental note, either above or below the melody. This is the prototype of our pedal note. This drone develops itself in two directions: firstly by sustaining a chord consisting of fundamental, fifth and octave, like bagpipes or hurdy-gurdy: secondly in that the drone moves between a limited number of notes like an ostinato, the so-called ‘wandering drone’ (after Curt Sachs)” (Orff, p. 28). Experimenting with the drone. ❧❧ Set up in C pentatonic. ❧❧ Find the fundamental tone, set a rhythm or sustain. ❧❧ Find a pattern that can be repeated and take turns improvising melodies over the drone. ❧❧ Add the fifth degree to the fundamental. ❧❧ Set a rhythm and experiment with different ways the drone can be performed. ❧❧ Discover chords, crossovers, and broken chords. ❧❧ Discover melodic ostinatos to be used as accompaniment for improvising melodies over each one using the C pentatonic scale. “Jingle at the Window” (American Play Party by Mrs. Leslie Beall, arr. Brent M. Holl) Aim: ❧❧ Learn and play an example of the Broken Chord Bordun. Process: ❧❧ Learn the song by rote from a handout. ❧❧ Add the orchestration one instrument at a time. ❧❧ Note the complementary melodic and rhythmic ostinato accompaniment. xx Viewed as a whole, it’s a 4-measure pattern. xx The Alto Xylophone is a 4-measure melodic ostinato. xx The Glockenspiels only play in the 4th measure, but it’s still a 4-measure pattern that Day5:39
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