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How to Make a Song!

1) Teacher's Intro

2) Mr. La Rea's Class

3) Miss Bonaventura's Class

4) Miss Hinton's Class

5) Miss Silva's Class

These audio recordings were made by 2nd grade students at the "Esteban Vicente Elementary School" (PS 170X) in the Bronx. In seven sessions, students learned about the different elements of music and how these elements are combined in order to create a song. The following recordings are like cooking recipes of "How to Make A Song".

In a musical structure given by the teaching artist, the students composed (created and notated) the rhythms and notes of each of their particular melodies. They also created the words or lyrics.

Students also built four "Marimba like" instruments made out of cardboard tubes, which were used for these recordings. Each cardboard tube was measured and cut to exact lengths in order to obtain specific notes to create mayor and minor harmonies.

They were also exposed to the use of music technology (modern digital software and hardware equipment) which was used to do the live recording in their classrooms.

We wanted to share this experience with you so you can also learn how to make your own song.

Enjoy!

Hector Morales Marquis Studio's Teaching Artist

This project reinforce Blueprint Music Benchmark 2 and more...

Music Making: singing unison songs, playing pitch and not pitched instruments, improvise and create simple songs, explore melodic contour and create melodic composition using software, improvise simple question and answer phrases.

Music Literacy: Read, notate and sightsing melodies using quarter notes and eighth notes, use specific music terminology such as melody, pitch, lyrics etc.

Making Connections: the use of color to represent different notes, patterns of repetition, expressiveness.

Also connecting and applying mathematical concepts of measures in inches and centimeters learned with their classroom teachers. Decorating objects using collage techniques. Establish relationship between syllables and rhythm for music composition.