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Fourth Grade Resources:

4th Grade students are reviewing the element of music called "FORM" Specific forms to be reviewed include the following:

Binary Form

Ternary Form

5 Part Rondo

7 part Rondo

They will then learn about Strophic Form

Activities used to learn about form include small group composition of a sound- movement sequence, small group performance of thier sound-movement sequence, listening to short musical selections in order to analyze which form is being used, and describing musical selections according to the element of music, "Form".

Vocabulary and Key Concepts

Marching Band

John Philip Sousa

Sousaphone

Stars and Stripes Forever

Ragtime

Scott Joplin

The Entertainer

The Maple Leaf Rag

Player Piano

Jazz

New Orleans

Chicago

Improvisation

Call and Response

Tailgaiting

Break

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Practice quiz questions:

True or False?

John Phillip sousa only composed marching band music.

(False. He is well known for the marching band music that he composed for the military but he did compose other kinds of music too.)

Two of Scott Joplin's most famous pieces of music are called " The Entertainer" and "The Maple Leaf Rag".

(True. Scott Joplin did compose both "The Maple Leaf Rag" as well as the "Entertainer". And both pieces of music are recognized widely today)

Jazz first emerged in new Orleans.

(True. Jazz emerged in New Orleans but as time passed, the center of Jazz development moved to Chicago, Illinois.)

Tailgating refers to the trombone in a small jazz band playing at the back of the bed of a truck.

(True! And tailgating doesn't refer to just any instrument playing at the back of the bed of a truck. It specifically refers tot he trombone because the back of the truck, or near the tailgate, is the only place a tromnonist had room to move the slide of the instrument back and forth to play the pitches correctly.)

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