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The Teacher’s Music Box
activities, resources, &
curriculum connections
Georgia Performance Standards:
SKP2 Students will investigate different types of motion.
S1CS4 Students will use the ideas of system, model, change, and scale in exploring scientific and technological matters.
S1P1 Students will investigate light and sound.
S2P2 Students will identify sources of energy and how the energy is used.
S2P3 Students will demonstrate changes in speed and direction using pushes and pulls.
MKP4, M1P4, M2P4 Students will make connections among mathematical ideas and to other disciplines.
ELAKR6 The student gains meaning from orally presented text.
ELAKW2, ELA1W2, ELA2W2 The student begins to write in a variety genres, including narrative, informational, persuasive, and response to literature
SSKH2 The student will identify important American symbols and explain their meaning.
Quality Core Curriculum:
General Music Strand (artistic skills & knowledge; creating, performing, producing)
Standards 1-4, 7-11, 13 & 16.
What’s in the Box?
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Music & Composer Information
About the ASO & Jere Flint
Instrument Families
of the Orchestra
Frere Jacques Activity Sheet
Cello Coloring Sheet
Lee Harper & Dancers Biography
Make Your Own Musical
Instruments (8 pages)
Trumpet Coloring Sheet
Horn Coloring Sheet
Petite Suite Activity Sheet
Clarinet Coloring Sheet
Conductor Coloring Sheet
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Wendy Bennett Biography
Percussion Coloring Sheet
Elisabeth Remy Johnson
Biography
Listening Activity Sheet
Harp Coloring Sheet
What do you Hear?
Autumn Activity Sheet
Symphony Street Sit-Upons
Recommended Reading
(Selected Children’s Storybooks)
Websites & Other Resources
My Letter to the ASO
More About….
March of the Toreadors from Carmen
About the Story: The story of Carmen is a story of love,
violence and unhappiness. The opera Carmen is set in Seville,
Spain. It is a love triangle between the soldier Don Jose, the
gypsy Carmen, and the bull fighter Escamillo.
About the Music: When asked if he would visit Spain to
research his score, Bizet replied "No, that would only confuse me." However he was influenced by Spanish flamenco
music and gypsy music. He worked several popular Spanish
folk songs into the score.
Johann Strauss Jr. (1825-1899): Strauss II was born
in Vienna, Austria. His father did not want him to
become a musician but rather a banker. He found
the early years difficult, but he soon won over music-loving audiences. Strauss Jr. would eventually
surpass his father's fame. Though his polkas and
marches were well known, Strauss II was known as
the “Waltz King”. He was one of the most popular
waltz composers of the era and is probably most famous for On The Beautiful Blue Danube.
Georges Bizet (1838-1875): Bizet was the only child of a
wig-maker who aspired to be a musician. Georges was admitted to the the Paris Conservatory before the age of ten.
He studied piano, organ, singing, harp, strings, woodwinds,
and composition. Georges Bizet fits the unfortunate stereotype of the struggling artist who is unappreciated in his own
time, but acclaimed after his death. After a brilliant start,
Bizet was largely unsuccessful in the musical world of his
day. Three months after receiving mixed reviews of his Carmen, he died of a heart attack at age 37. On the very night
of his death, there was a special performance of the work,
and the critics proclaimed him a master!
* French * Romantic Period
Jelly Donut Roll
About the Music: The true name of this piece of
music is Im Krapfenwald'l which roughly translates
to “In the Jelly Doughnut Woods” a scenic area in
the composer’s native Austria. The work which hints
strongly at the Viennese Woods backdrop calls for
bird whistles which adorn the polka. Strauss has the
last laugh when he calls for one of these birdsong in
the closing moments of this cheerful work before a
rushed ending with percussions and a flourish.
*Austrian *Romantic Period
The Toy Trumpet
About the Music:
One of Scott's best-known
compositions is "The Toy Trumpet," a cheerful pop
confection that is instantly recognizable to many
people who cannot name the title or composer. In
the 1938 film Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Shirley
Temple sings a version of the song with lyrics. Raymond Scott and his Quintet performed "The Toy
Trumpet" to a memorable Shirley Temple-Bill
"Bojangles" Robinson tap-dance finale.
Raymond Scott (1908-1994): Scott was an American
composer, band leader, pianist, engineer, recording studio
maverick, and electronic instrument inventor. He was born
Harry Warnow in Brooklyn. Harry reportedly adopted the
pseudonym "Raymond Scott" to spare his conductor
brother charges of nepotism when the orchestra began performing the pianist's idiosyncratic compositions. Though
Scott never scored cartoon soundtracks, his music is familiar
to millions because of its adaptation by Carl Stalling in over
120 classic Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Daffy Duck and other
Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies animated
features.
* American * Jazz
The Junk Man Rag
About the Music: Ragtime was the first truly
American musical genre, predating jazz. A ragtime composition closely resembles a march.
Maestro Jere and the ASO feature an ASO Brass
Quintet in this piece. The Quintet is comprised of
two trumpets, a trombone, a French horn, and a
tuba.
C. Luckyth Roberts (1887-1968):
Born in
Philadephia, Pennsylvania, Luckey Roberts was considered
one of the all-time great stride pianists, but unfortunately
he left very few records behind, and none from his early
years. Roberts actually predated stride, publishing "Pork and
Beans" and "Junk Man Rag" as early as 1913. He spent most
of his career leading society bands and writing for musical
comedies; his "Ripples of the Nile" became a hit for Glenn
Miller in 1941 as "Moonlight Cocktail." Although much of
his career was actually at the fringe of jazz, Roberts showed
on many occasions that he deserved his legendary status.
* American * Ragtime
Claude Debussy (1862-1918): Claude Debussy said,
“The age of the airplane needs its own music.” He created
music like no one had heard before. His style set the stage
for 20th century music. Claude was born near Paris. His
family recognized his talent very early in his life. At ten
years of age, he was accepted into the Paris Conservatory to
train as a concert pianist. After both success and failure as a
performer, he changed his focus to composition. Debussy
loved everything French. He saw his compositional style as
an expression of French sensibilities. This attention to the
purely sensuous quality of music led him to break tradition
to achieve his aim. * French * Impressionist * Late Romantic period
I Got Rhythm from Girl Crazy
About the Music: “I Got Rhythm" is a song
composed by George Gershwin with lyrics by Ira
Gershwin, published in 1930, which became a
widely-known jazz standard. The song is featured
in the 1951 musical film An American in Paris. It
was also featured in the movie Mr. Holland's
Opus.
In the Boat from Petite Suite
About the Music: Debussy composed this
music for piano. It was later orchestrated by Henri
Busser. Maestro Flint chose this piece to showcase
the woodwind family in the concert however on
the CD the music is performed by a harp.
Debussy’s style concentrates on mood & color in
music. It was said that his music explored “the
mysterious relationship between Nature &
Imagination.”
George Gershwin (1898-1937):
Gershwin was an
American composer born Jacob Gershowitz in Brooklyn,
NY. He wrote most of his vocal and theatrical works in collaboration with his elder brother, lyricist Ira Gershwin.
Gershwin was influenced very much by French composers of
the early twentieth century. Maurice Ravel was quite impressed with Gershwins’ abilities. George Gershwin composed songs both for Broadway and for the classical concert
hall. Gershwin composed his first major classical work,
Rhapsody in Blue for orchestra and piano. It proved to be
his most popular work.
* American * Jazz
More About….
Selections from Concertino for Harp
About the Music: “I believe that music is a form of
language capable of progress and renewal” - Mario
Castelnuovo-Tedesco.
The harp is a stringed instrument which has the plane of its
strings positioned perpendicular to the soundboard. All
harps have a neck, resonator and strings. Some, known as
frame harps, also have a forepillar. Depending on its size
(which varies considerably), a harp may be played while held
in the lap or while stood on the floor. Harp strings can be
made of nylon, gut (more commonly used than nylon),
wire, or silk. A person who plays the harp is called a harpist..
Alexander Glazunov (1863-1936) : was born in
St. Petersburg and was the son of a wealthy
publisher. A pupil of Rimsky-Korsakov,
Glazunov wrote his First Symphony at the age
of only 16. In 1905 he became the director of
the St. Petersburg Conservatory. He suffered
great hardship during the Russian Revolution
and left Russia altogether in 1928. Eventually
he settled in Paris.
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895-1968):
Born
into a Jewish family in Florence, Italy, Castelnuovo-Tedesco
was a successful composer until 1938 when the Italian fascist
government developed a program toward the arts, which
were viewed as a tool for propaganda of racial ideas. Castelnuovo-Tedesco was banned from the radio and performances of his work were cancelled. He left Italy in 1939,
shortly before the outbreak of World War II. Like many
artists who fled fascism, Castelnuovo-Tedesco ended up in
Hollywood, where, with the help of Jascha Heifetz, he
landed a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer as a film
composer. He taught John Williams & Henry Mancini.
* Italian *Modern
Autumn from The Seasons
About the Music: The work was composed as a
ballet in one act in 1899, and was first performed
by the Imperial Ballet in 1900 in St. Petersburg,
Russia. The Seasons are personified by the dancers
and in Act 4 they take part in a glorious dance
while leaves from autumn trees rain upon their
merriment.
* Russian * Romantic Period
National Emblem March
About the Music: This march was written
around 1906. Early in its score, it incorporates the
first 12 notes or so of The Star-Spangled Banner.
A well-known theme of this march is popularly
sung in the US with the words "and the monkey
wrapped his tail around the flagpole". The trio
section is used to provide ceremonial music to a
color guard featuring the US Flag. The color guard
will march to this tune.
Edwin Eugene Bagley (1857-1922): Edwin Eugene
Bagley was born in Craftsbury, Vermont. He is best known
for composing marches. When Bagley was nine, he joined
Leavitt’s Bellringers, as a vocalist and comedian. Later he
started playing the cornet and toured with the Swiss Bellringers for six years. Following that he traveled for nine
years with an opera company from Boston. He also played
with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Germania
Band of Boston. His most famous march, National Emblem, is played as a patriotic tune at Independence Day celebrations in the United States .
* American * Modern