Concepts

1.  Rhythm (eighth, quarter, dotted quarter, and half note)
2.  Differentiate between A, B themes

Behavioral Objectives

Students will:

1.  Read correct rhythms using Kodaly syllables
2.  Transfer rhythms to body motions
3.  Transfer rhythms to instruments
4.  Recognize when the A theme and B theme is played

National Objectives

Content Standard: Reading and notating music
    Achievement Standard:
    Students
    a.  read whole, half, quarter, eighth, sixteenth and dotted notes and rests in 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, 6/8,
        3/8, and alla breve meter signatures
Content Standard:  Listening to, analyzing, and describing music
     Achievement Standard:
     Students
     c.  demonstrate the knowledge of the basic principles of meter, rhythm, tonality, intervals,
          chords and harmonic progressions in their analyses of music

Materials

1.  Recording of "Act II, Scene I of Swan Lake”
3.  Rhythm instruments (drum, tambourine and rhythm sticks)

Teaching Process

1.  Teacher hands out photocopy of rhythms of Theme A and B
2.  Students read through the rhythms of A theme on poster board using Kodaly rhythmic
syllables
3.  Teacher assigns body motions for each one of the note values on the poster
 
     Half and Quarter note = stamp
 
     eighth notes = pat legs

     sixteenth notes = clap

4.  Students perform body motions without music saying rhythm syllables (1 or 2 times)
5.  Students perform body motions with A theme on recording (stop recording after A theme)
6.  Students form a line
7.  Teacher instructs students to put rhythm to A theme in feet with the recording; when students
     reach a theme they do not recognize, they freeze
8. Teacher hands out rhythm instruments
9. Students are divided into three group; each group plays a designated rhythmic value

     half notes and quarter notes = tambourine or cymbals

     eighth notes  = rhythm sticks

     dotted quarter notes = drum

12.  Students put instruments away