Music Listening Monday - Famous Canadian Musicians

Today is Music Listening Monday

Your Assignment: 

Below you will find the genre/style of music, musician, title of the song and a YouTube video of the musician performing. If you have your parent's permission, you can explore more music by the musicians on YouTube, Spotify or Apple Music. 

1. Choose a video and watch and listen to a Canadian Musician. (You can always come back and listen to more after your assignment is complete.)

2. In Seesaw, answer the following questions:

     A) What song did you choose to listen to?

     B) What genre or style of music was it?

     C) Tell me TWO things you noticed the music or the musician.

Country

Shania Twain

You're Still the One

Paul Brandt

Alberta Bound

Pop

Justin Bieber

Baby

Celine Dion

My Heart Will Go On

Alessia Cara

How Far I'll Go

Rock

Tragically Hip

Ahead By A Century

Bryan Adams

Everything I Do (I Do It For You)

Rush
The Spirit of Radio

Classical

The Tenors
Adagio

Glenn Gould
The Goldberg Variations

Folk

Joni Mitchell

Big Yellow Taxi

Gordon Lightfoot
Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

Jazz

Michael Bublé
The Way You Look Tonight

Diana Krall
Fly Me To The Moon

Each Monday I will focus on different genres or types of music. In the Manitoba Music Curriculum, students need to learn about other cultures, times and places. This includes music from the past and present, from our community, Manitoba, Canada and the world. There is so much music out there; unfortunately we cannot cover it all so it will be just a smattering of a variety of music. We briefly cover some of these outcomes in Music class. Because we cannot be together as a class, this is the perfect opportunity to focus on these outcome as we cannot develop some of our other group music making skills at this time. 

Just a friendly reminder that students need to be aware that there are different kinds of music. We may not like it all, and this is perfectly okay, but we need to be respectful and have an open mind as we listen to and experience all kinds of music.

Please note that I have tried to carefully choose songs that are appropriate to listen to "at school". That means that the words of the song as well as the subject and content is "clean" and appropriate for children.