Activity #11: C MAJOR, MAJOR AND MINOR SCALES

Music:

  • The primary central focus is to introduce students to musical elements: Transposition and F major scale. (Pr: 4.1 & 4.2)
    • Students will be able to explain how C major is transposed to the key of F.
    • Students will be able to demonstrate and explain how the selection of music to perform is influenced by personal interest, knowledge, and context, as well as their personal and others’ technical skill. (Doraji, Kāhuli Aku). (Pr4.1)
    • Students will be able to identity middle C (low so,(, note D, (low la,), and note E (low ti,) in the key of F major on the staff. (Doraji, Kāhuli Aku). (Pr4.2)

SEL:

Students will be able to discover their roles, contributions, and importance of sharing and making decisions as a group. 


 

FOCUS KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS SONGS/CHANTS/BOOKS

SCALE

 

FORM

 

TONALITIES

  • Transposition from C to F major. 
  • Identify solfege and absolute names (including B-flat) in F major.
  • We shall overcome
  • Water Canon

Transposition


When playing an instrument and singing, musicians sometimes want to change from one key to

another. Usually, a key change is made when the range of the song is not suitable for the singer. Changing from one key to another is called transposing.

 

So far, you have learned the key of C major. We are going to transpose from the key of C to the key of F.

 

  1. Can you count the steps from C up to F? (4 steps — C, D, E, F)
  2. In music, the distance between two notes is called an interval. What is the interval between C and F? (4th above)

So, if we transpose a song from C major to F major, all the notes in the song will be transposed to a 4th above.


C and F major

Katherine and Kevin, can you make a video on piano and `ukulele? MM = 110, so that I can put both side by side.

1. First play note C major, then play step by step up, till the 4th note above (say that in the video). Say this is note F.

2. a) Play F major on the instruments, without Bb. b) Then play the note and count the note: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. Ask which note sounds strange (4th note)?

3. Now play again with Bb and ask whether it sounds right.

4. Explain:

  • Piano: Explain the black key is below B, it is called B-flat. The interval between B and B-flat is 1/2 step.
  • `Ukulele: Explain the Bb is a fret above B. On `ukulele, the interval is 1/2 step if the notes are one fret apart.

5. Play F major scale again (ascending and descending). At the end explain in F major, we need to add an accidental, and that is Bb.

6. Play C major scale (ascending and descending). Explain in C major, there is no accidental.

Please check with each other, so that both of you are on the same page. You know how to do this, you are better than this. : )


Now, let's sight read the below four phrases in solfege.

Ex 1

1. What is the first note's solfege? Are the rest of the notes in mm1 in step or skip movement? (step)

2. What is the first note's solfege in mm2? What is the contour of the melody? (ascending and descending)

3. What is the melody's contour in mm 3-4? (descending)

4. Sing this phrase.

 


Ex 2

1. Is the first note of Ex 2 the same as Ex 1? (same)

2. What is the first note's solfege in mm2? (mi) What is the contour of the melody? (descending)

3. Are the notes in mm 2 in step or skip movements? (skip)

4. Sing the solfege (mi-do-la,)

5. Is the next note in mm 3 lower or higher than the first note (a step lower)? Name the solfege (low so)

6. Sing all the notes.

 

 


Ex 3

1. What is the first note's solfege? Are the rest of the notes in mm1 & 2 the same or different? (same) 

2. Is the first note's solfege in mm3 and 4 the same? (same)

3. Sing this phrase.

 


Ex 4

  1. Compare Ex 3 & 4; what is added between all the low la? (so)
  2. Sing the first measure.
  3. Is mm1 the same or different from mm2? (same)
  4. Are the last two measures of Ex 4 the same or different from mm3-4 of Ex 3? (same)
  5. Sing Ex 4.

 


Daraji

Do you remember you sang this Korean song in Activity 9? Now we will read the song on the staff, which is in F major.

If any one wants to write the steps, please do.

Note: Teacher may use the same sequence students sight-read Exercises 1-4 to hand sign and sing Doraji in solfege.


SEL:
  • Why do some songs "sound" like major, some minor? Open discussion with the students (STANDARDS: RESPONDING).
  • Ok, folks, I need you add more questions here.

Kāhuli Aku

Kāhuli is a rare endangered species well known as the Hawaiian Tree Snail. In the old days, it could be found in the rain forest of the major Hawaiian Islands. Most recently, with the natural changes of the modernization, it has been declared
an endangered species. The Kāhuli is also popularly known in legend to be a singing tree snail. In this composition, the shells chirp in the evening and ask the birds to bring them a drink of water. The `ākōlea is a delicate fern plant.

Some years ago, Auntie Winona Beamer, former Kamehameha School Hawaiian Music Resource set this old chant to music. The original chant is sited in Unwritten Literature of Hawai`i Nathaniel Emerson and is popularly used by our island teachers, especially for the purpose of school pageantry and traditional May Day Programs. The kōlea is a bird, the Pacific Golden Plover, that migrates to Hawai`i and is often recognized in August. In the spring, they return to their homes in Alaska and Siberia.

Published by Hula Hui O Kapunahala for education purposes.



To learn the hula, please visit this page:

Kāhuli Aku

 


Practice solfege and absolute names in Kāhuli Aku

  1. The class learns the hula.
  2. Identify solfege and notes middle C (low so,), D (low la,) F (do), G (re), and A (mi), in Kāhuli Aku.
  3. Identify notes in measures 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, and 8. How are these measures similar and different?
  4. Students sing measures 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, and 8 in solfege. Teacher sings measures 3 and 7 in solfege.
  5. Students sing measures 3 and 7 with hand signs and solfege.
  6. Students sing measures 1-8 with hand signs and solfege.
  7. In phrase 5, find note E, it is one step below F. If F is do, what is the solfege of the note below do (refer to Water Canon)? (ti)
  8. In Kāhuli Aku, note E is low ti. It is the cousin of the high ti. Show the hand signs to students. Sing phrase 5 with hand signs and solfege.
  9. The class may review the rhythm patterns of quarter (ta), pair eighth (ti-ti), half (to-o), and dotted quarter-eighth (tai-ti) notes by singing the rhythm.
  10. The class may also try to sing the piece in absolute names of this piece.
  11. The class sings and performs this song with hula.

 


SEL:
  • Can you all write something about protecting endanger species?

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