When you are done watching the video and playing along, send me a photo of the percussion instrument you used to play along with the video. These percussion instruments can be home made or real ones.
You will need to find something in your house that you can play like a percussion instrument. It will have to be something you can hit, shake or scrape. For example, you might use a pot with a wooden spoon, fill a small container with rice or beans (don't forget to tape it shut), tin can and cutlery, ice cream pail and chopsticks, etc. If you spend a lot of time making your percussion instrument, don't throw it away because you will have to use it again for another activity.
Kindergarten
Make sure you only play your instrument when the bee touches down on the flowers. Can you make it through the song without making a mistake? Good luck.
Sylvia Pizzicato Information
This song was originally composed by Leo Delibes. He was a French composer that was born in 1836 and died in 1891. That's a long time ago!! He studied music growing up and had a beautiful singing voice and could play the organ. He wrote music for the opera and ballet.
Click on the video to hear the original music and see what this composer looked like. Check out his beard. I wonder what happened to it?!?!?
Grade 1 and 2
This will be a familiar song for the grade 1 and 2 students. Do you remember when we used this song to follow the patterns in the music with the parachute? That was so much fun! I hope you enjoy playing your instrument with this song. The original of the song is can be found underneath the play along video.
To play the percussion version you can:
To play the percussion version you can:
Option 1: Play your instrument as the frog hops on each coloured shape. You will need to shake, scrape or hit your instrument.
Option 2: Choose one coloured shape to follow. Only play your instrument when that colour appears. You will play much less so you will have to be ready for when your coloured shape gets "hopped" on.
Option 3: Find up to four of your family members to play this version. Each person chooses a different instrument and coloured shape to follow. Only play your instrument on your colour. Everyone shakes, scrapes or hits their instrument on the purple shape with the "x".
Did you notice the ta's and ti-ti's behind the shapes?
Can-Can Information
Jacques Offenbach was born in Germany in 1819 and died in Paris in 1880. He learned to play the cello as a young child. When he was 14 years old, he was sent to a music school in Paris to become even better at playing the cello and learn how to compose music. As an adult, he performed on the cello all over Europe and began to conduct and compose music for the orchestra and operas. (An opera is a play that is set to music for singers and the orchestra. There are no speaking parts.)
Click on the video to hear the music again and see what this composer looked like.
Grade 3, 4 and 5
The original of the song is called Jazz Pizzicato by Leroy Anderson (See more information below). To play the percussion version you can:
Option 1: Play your instrument by shaking, scraping or hitting it as the chicken jumps on each egg. Shake, scrape or quickly hit your instrument when you get to the coloured grass at the end of the line.
Option 2: Choose a patterned egg to follow. Only play your instrument when that patterned egg appears. You will play much less so you will have to be ready for when your egg gets "jumped" on. Shake, scrape or quickly hit your instrument when you get to the coloured grass at the end of the line.
Option 3: Find up to four members of your family to play this version. Each person chooses a different instrument and patterned egg to follow. Only play your instrument on your patterned egg. Everyone shakes, scrapes or quickly hits their instrument during the coloured grass at the end of the line.
Leroy Anderson Information
Leroy Anderson was born in the United States in 1908 and died in 1975. He was a very talented man. Growing up, he studied the piano and organ. While at Harvard University, he worked towards his PhD in languages and was fluent in nine languages. He conducted, arranged and composed music for dance bands and orchestras. He joined the United States Army and eventually became a chief for a Military Intelligence area. He composed and conducted his own music until near the end of his life.
He has received many awards for the music he composed, including a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. His pieces and recordings were commercial successes. Some sold millions of copies and reached the No. 1 music charts on the radio.
Jazz Pizzicato was originally created for only the string family instruments of the orchestra. Later he orchestrated it for the full orchestra (string, woodwind, brass and percussion instrument families). Leroy Anderson conducted the first performance in 1938. This was the first piece of his that was published so other orchestras could learn to play it.
Listen to Leroy Anderson's Jazz Pizzicato.
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