EDUC3620 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Ostinato, Tonality
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Orff & the relationship of music and movement. Experiencing and responding to music: not technical skills and perfection. Guides students through a process: teacher directs music making, student encouraged to explore and develop understanding, student internalizes music = success. Holistic and intuitive approach: experiencing music, exploring the possibilities. Begin the lesson with: speech, movement, body percussion, all developed into music. Can only be implemented by a teacher who has experienced it themselves. Imitation: simultaneous (to mirror, echo (remembering, overlapping (continuous texture) Exploration: change media, dynamics louder of softer, tempo fast or slow, develop understanding of concept. Improvisation: culmination of knowledge, create own musical idea, confirm musical independence, varies person to person, consolidate skills. Literacy: sound before symbol, time names, sol-fa, graphic notation. Ostinato: repeated pattern, unchanging, builds confidence in new concepts, movement, stamping feet to build beat, speech, words in rhyme. Tonality: 5 note pentatonic scale, chosen for versatility, notes don"t clash if played simultaneously, encourages collaboration.
