Dylan Keiser

MUSE353 Gerrity
Song Material/ Activities:
 Recording of: Where No One Goes, Forbidden Friendship, Coming Back Around
 Auxillary percussion and Orff instruments
 Speakers
Lesson Sequence: Story Unit: 3rd Lesson
Grade Levels: 6th-8th
 Primary Musical Concepts:
 Motif/Motive
 Reinforce Form
Behavioral Objectives:
1. Students will be able to define motif/motive
2. Students will be able to create and perform motivic lines while keeping steady rhythm and
being accompanied
Procedure:
1. Intro – Get to know
 Pets?
 Pets you wish you had?
 I want a dragon!
2.
 Play motive from HTTYD pieces – Listen for this idea, how many times do you hear it
repeated?
 Play short excerpt from “Where no one goes”
 Keep an ear on that as we go along. We talked about form yesterday, correct?
 Play up through to intro repeat.
 Where was the chorus? Hmm, it was different than other songs, wasn’t it?
3.
 I have another piece I want you to listen to. Is the music idea from before in this piece
as well? (Stop recording quickly) Start at 2:20
 Is that weird? For ideas in one piece to come up in another? From 2:20 to 3:20
 I want you to count how many times you hear it this time. Maybe hum along while your
counting?
 Would we like to learn that idea on the orff? (teach a couple volunteers to play motive)
o Have class finger tap rhythm of motive while they are there
 Let’s get into groups. Do we want to change the texture? Pass out auxiliary percussion.
Have kids all play together.
4.
 Can you echo after me on your instrument (rhythms on board, have them tell which one)
o Orff instruments, take off the bar that says “B,” and “F”
 Switch who has the orff instrument. Have class keep steady rhythm on new instruments
while I echo some patterns using rhythms on board.
 Let’s make our own! Only use rhythms we have on the board. The member on the orff
instrument will repeat their motive. The others will vary their rhythms ever 4 beats.
 After groups perform, prompt discussion about the music ideas we keep playing over
and over.
National Standards in use:
Singing Playing Moving Improvising Composing Reading/ Writing Listening Evaluating Understanding

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 Dylan Keiser
MUSE353 Gerrity