Download Title: Pat-a-Pan Two-part Voices with flute and keyboard

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Title: Pat-a-Pan
Two-part Voices with flute and keyboard accompaniment
Composer: anon. Burgundian Carol. Arr. Mary Goetze, The Owl Sings, 22 Folksongs
for 2/3 Voices, Ed. Susan Taylor Howell
Text: anon. English
Publisher: OAKE, Fargo, N.D. 1991
Background Information:
From: http://www.hymns-and-carolsofchristmas.com: William Studwell writes in The
Christmas Reader, “Burgundy…is a historical region in eastern France which at one time
was extremely powerful. Burgundy is one of France’s prime areas for the development of
carols. Much of the carol activity came from the pen of Bernard de la Monnaye c.16411728. All of Monnaye’s carols, written c.1700 are set to tunes which are probably from
the folk resources of Burgundy but may have been composed by Monnaye.”
From :http://newsinfo.iu.edu/sb/page/normal//107.html: Professor Mary Goetze is
Chairperson of the Department of General Studies at Indiana Unversity. She holds a
doctorate degree from the University of Colorado. A conductor, arranger and composer,
she is an international clinician in music education. She is a founder and former
conductor of the I.U. Children’s Chorus and presently conducts the International Vocal
Ensemble. She was the coordinating author of “Share the Music,” McMillan McGrawHill Publishing, 1995
Recording: A Festival of Carols, Robert Shaw Chorale, Robert Shaw, Conductor, RCA
Victor, CD #6429 (1990)
Musical Elements:
Meter: 2/4
Form: Strophic: Intro, ABB1 repeat, interlude, descant is added to ABB1
Tonality: g minor
Phrasing and Harmony: Marked in the score
Dynamics: mp, mf, f
Vocal Technique Elements:
Range: d – d1
Tessitura: g- d1
Pitch set: Melody – g la: M1 Si1 L1 T1 D R M F S
Rhythm: ≈, ç, ∂, ß
Harmony: Voice I descant harmony part, with flute and keyboard also providing
traditional harmonic function.
Text: Anon. Christmas text
Elements Related to Teaching:
Appropriate Grade Level: 3rd – middle school treble choir
Difficult Sections: Diction and descant
Possible Teaching sequence:
Objective: To perform Pat-a-Pan in a light Renaissance style, emphasizing the
text.
Warm-up activities: use rhythmic and melodic motives in warm-up
Motivation: Give examples of known songs that imitate sounds, i.e. bells:din-dindon, bird calls:cu-koo.Have students listen for the sounds of the flute and drum
while listening to teacher or recording.
Procedure: Voice I: Read rhythm of A using rhythm syllables. Students sight-sing
A melody using sol-fa. (Teacher sings B with words.) Perform A on a neutral
syllable.(Teacher sings B using words) Add words to A melody. (Teacher sings B
using words.) Ask students to sing B with words. When secure teacher adds Voice
II. Identify where Voice II imitates Voice I, where two voices sing in unison,
where voices sing in thirds/sixths, and scale passage. After students locate in
score, teacher sings. Read part II from overhead in sol-fa, neutral syllables and
then with words. When voice II is secure teacher sings Voice I and then switch.
Divide class and perform. Use the 2-part version as a coda after singing all the
verses of the ballad.Use for soloists on the verses.
Allow 4-6 15-minute rehearsals to learn.