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TERM 3
GRADE 7
Music Literacy
The Waltz and the Ländler
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THE LÄNDLER
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What is the Ländler?
The Ländler is a popular folk dance in ¾ time that originated in Austria, Southern
Germany, German Switzerland and Slovenia in the 1700s. Participants in the dance are
paired together and the steps of the dance consist of hopping and stamping. The dancers
wore traditional costumes at first, but later, because it became popular in dance halls,
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dancers started to wear more formal and elegant clothing. The dance was also sped up to
make the steps flow more elegantly. It was therefore thought that this dance contributed to
the development of the waltz.
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The Broadway musical, which later became a feature-length film, The Sound of Music,
features a scene where Maria, the governess to the von Trapp children, dances with their
father, Captain von Trapp. The dance that they perform is the Ländler. You can watch
these characters perform the Ländler at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUfWRBGQkz0.
The rhythm of a traditional Ländler bar of music is as follows:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Landler_dance_pattern.png
The South African folk dance most connected to the Ländler is the ‘Volkspele’:
VOLKSPELE
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bd/Volkspele003.gif
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What is Volkspele?
Translated, the word ‘Volkspele’ means ‘folk games’, but it is really folk dancing. It is the
brain child of Dr S H Pellisier, who, on visiting Sweden in 1912, decided that this country
needed to have its own folk dance. As a result, he developed dance groups based on
Voortrekker ideas. Get togethers were called saamtrekke where all the groups of dancers
(called laers) competed against each other. The rhythm of the dance tended to be ¾ time.
An example of the type of music laers danced to is “Afrikaners is Plesierig!” The words are:
Afrikaners is plesierig,
Dit kan julle glo!
Hulle hou van partytjies,
En dan maak hulle so:
Eers draai die ou vroutjie,
En dan draai haar ou man.
Hy vat haar om haar lyfie
En dan draai hulle saam.
Activity 1;
Stand a boy and girl alternately and form a circle holding hands.
Waltz forward 1, 2, 3, lifting arms as you move to the centre of the circle. Waltz backwards
1, 2, 3, lowering your arms as you return to your starting place. Repeat
Waltz to the right 1, 2, 3, in an anticlockwise direction; change to your left and waltz in a
clockwise direction for another 1, 2, 3. Repeat
Each girl turns underneath her right arm towards the boy on her right.
Each boy turns underneath his arm towards the girl on his left.
The boy and girl now face one another, hold round the waist and twirl (Tiekie-draai)
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MARKING CRITERIA:
You will be marked as follows:
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5 marks for singing the song correctly and in tune
5 marks for dancing the Volkspele
5 marks for working together in the group
5 marks for conducting music in triple metre
RUBRIC FOR DANCING VOLKSPELE
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Outstanding
achievement
4
Substantial
achievement
3
Moderate
achievement
2
Elementary
achievement)
1
Not
achieved
Singing
song
correctly
and in tune
Sang in pitch
throughout
A mistake
noted
2 or more
mistakes noted
Only some
notes sung in
pitch
Unable to sing
in pitch
Dancing
Dance was
performed in
most part, but a
little tentative
Satisfactory
performance of
dance
Very tentative
performance of
dance
Unable to do
the dance
The
Volkspele
Dance was
well-performed
and with
confidence
Working
together
Excellent work
done together
Some errors
noted in their
co- operation
Good work as a
group
Many errors
noted in the
group work
Were not able
to work
together
Conducting
music in
triple metre
Accurately
conducted
piece
Conducted with
minor errors
Conducted with
a few errors
Conducted with
many errors
Unable to
conduct
according to
metre
Criteria
TOTAL:
20 MARKS
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THE WALTZ
What is the Waltz?
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The name ‘Waltz’ comes from the German verb ‘walzen’ (taken from the Latin verb
‘volvere’) meaning ‘to turn or revolve. The waltz is a dance performed in ¾ time. At the
time of its rise in popularity, in the 19th Century, the waltz was considered to be scandalous
because, in order to dance the Waltz, men and women had to hold each other’s hands
tightly and dance close together in public.
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The most famous waltz, performed each year at the New Year’s Concert in Vienna,
Austria, is The Blue Danube, composed by the Austrian composer, Johann Strauss II, in
1866. Because of all the waltzes he wrote, Johann Strauss II became known as ‘The Waltz
King’.
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You can watch an orchestra and dancers perform The Blue Danube waltz at a New Year’s
concert in Vienna here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHFJWCCsWWQ
Here are some modern pieces, also in ¾ waltz time:
Amazing Grace (Traditional)
Silent Night (Traditional)
Blackout – Muse
Kiss from a Rose – Seal
Breakaway – Kelly Clarkson
A Thousand Years – Christina Perri
The Potter Waltz (from Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)
My Favourite Things (from The Sound of Music)
Eidelweiss (from The Sound of Music)
Have you ever really loved a woman – Bryan Adams
Hallelujah – Lou Reid (from Shrek)
Christmas Song – Alvin and the Chipmunks
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whY9MKlvisI)
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BASS CLEF
When you want to write music for Bass Instruments like the Tuba, Cello, Double bass,
Bassoon and other bass instruments, as well as bass voices, a different clef is used. This
clef is called the BASS CLEF. The sign for the bass clef resembles a cursive F, and is
such because it is situated around the note F on the stave. The notes on the lines are: G,
B, D, F, A and the notes in the spaces are: A, C, E, G.
http://www.pianomother.com/assets/images/FreeSheetMusic/notes-on-the-bass-clef.png
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Test your knowledge of the notes by doing the following exercises:
Now access ‘Perfect Piano’ and play them on the bass section of the keyboard.
Listen to the music of: Morning Mood by Grieg
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRlXnoC0ySs)
EDVARD GRIEG was born in Bergen, Norway on
15th June 1843. For most of its life, Norway struggled to
be its own nation separate from unions with other
countries. It was Edvard’s music that helped give
Norway its own identity. For his contribution, he came
to be regarded as a hero to the people of Norway.
Many of his works include Norwegian folksongs where
he paints a musical picture of the landscape of the
beautiful countryside. He set Henrik Ibsen’s stage play
Peer Gynt to music, which includes two of his best known works: Morning Mood and In the
Hall of the Mountain King.
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Listen to the music of: Ode to Joy by Beethoven
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87qT5BOl2XU)
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN was born in Bonn, Germany
in 1770. His talent was recognized early on, and by 1778 he was
learning to play the organ and the viola in addition to his piano
studies. In 1787, young Beethoven decided to travel to Vienna,
hoping to meet and study composition with Wolfgang Amadeus
Mozart. By his twenties he began to suffer from hearing loss. He
did, however, continue to compose, conduct and perform, even
though he was completely deaf. One story recalls that after
conducting the premiere of his Ninth Symphony, which includes
the melody Ode to Joy, he had to be turned around to see the
overwhelming applause of the audience. He is remembered as an important composer in
the transitional period between the Classical Era and the Romantic Era in music.
Listen to the music of: Swan Lake by Tchaikovsky
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cNQFB0TDfY)
PETER ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY was born in 1840 in the
present – day Udmurtia, Russia. His father was a Ukrainian mining
engineer. The only music instruction he received were piano
lessons from a piano manufacturer, who occasionally made visits
to the School of Judisprudence. On attending the Opera and
Theater, it was the works of Rossini, Bellini, Verdi and Mozart that
he enjoyed the most. In 1861, he heard about classes being
offered by the Russian Musical Society. In the following year, he
followed his teacher to the St. Petersburg Conservatory, where he met and studied with
Anton Rubinstein. Rubinstein was impressed with Tchaikovsky’s talent.
Listen to music written for and in the Bass clef:
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A Cello piece – The Swan from the ‘Carnival of the Animals’ by Camille Saint-Saëns
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNbXuFBjncw
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A Double bass piece – The Elephant from the ‘Carnival of the Animals’ by Camille
Saint- Saëns
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ase1PyMJ9iw
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A tenor aria such as Una fortiva lagrima by Donizetti
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUI8rpMzsC8
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A contemporary song such as The End of the Road by Boyz II Men
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDKO6XYXioc
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A Bass guitar piece such as Victor Wooten’s version of Amazing Grace
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lg_j7n4BcVA
Watch,
on
Youtube,
a
Brass
band
playing
Stand
by
Me
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77HHUoLffec) where the bass instruments play an
OSTINATO as follows:
Try to sing the ostinato using the vocal sound of ‘doem’ and ‘do do’. Make sure that you’re
singing these sounds accurately and in the correct rhythmic pattern.
The word OSTINATO comes from the Italian word that means
stubborn or obstinate. Indeed this is true in music, as the musical
phrase repeats over and over. The musical phrases then always have
the same pitch, stress and duration. In Jazz and R&B (Rhythm and
Blues) a short musical phrase that is repeated like this is called a
RIFF. The Bass line to Pachelbel’s Canon is an Ostinato and a new
tune is created above it throughout the piece. This means that it lends
itself to Jazz improvisation (creating your own tune) above the steady
bass.
Listen to the Pachelbel Canon on:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xu5TlSXEzzs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bViB_P7RTDU