Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Peter and the Wolf
Today we began our first journaling exercise in our Band Journals. Once a week, we will be doing a listening exercise in which students will be asked to write a response to a question based on something they heard in the music. Today's listening assignment happened to be a viewing assignment, too! We watched about half of a YouTube clip of Disney's version of Peter and the Wolf by Sergei Prokofiev. We talked about which characters each instrument represented and the students were asked to select an instrument and describe why that instrument BEST represented that character. Below is the clip we watched. We will watch the rest next week and follow up with another question. Until then, feel free to answer the question yourself in the comments below. Which instrument would YOU pick and why does that instrument represent its character best?
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Way to kick it up a notch and incorporate a video with an extension activity that draws from the students' creative minds to respond. Having students think critically and dissect something in this manner is such a tool that they will be able to utilize throughout their academic and professional skills. I shall respond to the prompt saying that the best instrument for Sasha the bird would be a piccolo due to the majestic sounds (http://vimeo.com/25200542) that one can create with it that remind me of flying up, up and away.
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