While browsing it I discovered the Music Video Series which contains a list of engaging music videos that are available on youtube.
This made me think of another activity we did in class this week - listening to music with a "music teacher's" ear. For this entry I'll pick some of my favourite music videos (from the Music Video Series and from elsewhere) and work out which elements of music they'd be good for teaching.
Could be used to teach:
- Duration
- Changing tempo
- Difference between beat and rhythm (the lower parts have the beat, the higher parts have a different rhythm).
- Metre (strong and weak beats, recognising when beats are accented)
- Dynamics
- Distinguishing between loud and soft.
- Discriminating changes in loud and soft and degrees of loud and soft.
- Recognising that dynamics provide contrast in music.
- Structure
- Recognising patterns that are the same.
- Recognising repetition and contrast within music.
- Recognising that music is made up of sections.
Could be used to teach:
- Tone Colour
- Classifying sound sources into categories and comparing the tone colours of these groups.
Could be used to teach:
- Pitch
- Distinguishing between high and low pitch.
- Recognising the melodic contour of pitch patterns.
- Dynamics
- Distinguishing between loud and soft.
- Discriminating changes in loud and soft and degrees of loud and soft.
- Recognising that dynamics provide contrast in music.
Could be used to teach:
- Duration
- Recognising sounds, silences and patterns of sounds and silences.
- Recognising strong and weak beats and hence metre.
- Pitch
- Distinguishing between high and low pitch.
- Recognising the melodic contour of pitch patterns.
- Recognising that combinations of pitch make harmony.
- Dynamics
- Distinguishing between loud and soft.
- Discriminating changes in loud and soft and degrees of loud and soft.
- Recognising that dynamics provide contrast in music.
Could be used to teach:
- Tone Colour
- Describing a variety of sound sources and sound production methods, and the tone colours produced.
- Classifying sound sources into categories.
- Structure
- Recognising patterns that are the same and patterns that are different.
- Recognising repetition and contrast within music.
- Recognising small sections within a piece of music.
- Recognising that music is made up of large and small sections.
Can be used to teach:
- Structure
- Recognises that music is made up of large sections and small sections.
- Recognises repetition and contrast within music.
- Tone Colour
- Exploring a variety of sound sources and sound production methods.
- Describing and combining tone colours of various sound sources in their own work and the work of others.
Snippets of this could be used to inspire song composition and to begin teaching about chords. Only parts of the video could be used, however, as it includes a bit of swearing.
