Animal Crackers - Learning, Listening,
Composing & Evaluating Activities
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Animal Crackers - Performing Activities -
Songs & Scores
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Animal Crackers - Starter & Plenary
Activities
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Animal Crackers from Musical Contexts provides a range of fun and exciting
music activities and learning opportunities combining singing, performing,
composing and listening and appraising with all of the resources you’ll need
in one place! Ideal for non-specialist music teachers (with a wealth of
supporting media files to model tasks and a detailed scheme of work and
lesson plans) and a wealth of fresh inspiration for music specialists.
If you’re exploring the topic of Animals, then there’s something within this unit that will
hopefully inspire both you as a teacher and your pupils This unit takes, as its
starting point, Saint-Saëns’ programmatic suite “Carnival of the Animals” as
a musical starting point to explore how composers have created descriptive
music based on animals. Pupils begin to explore birdsong as a type of
music, listening to “bird-related” movements from “Carnival of the Animals”
and performing different birdsongs. They then move on to explore “The
Aquarium” and create their own descriptive movement based on a fish or sea
animal. Pupils then explore another descriptive and programmatic work,
Prokofiev’s “Peter and the Wolf” where different animals and characters are
represented by different instruments of the orchestra, each with a unique
timbre. Pupils then explore the “March of the Royal Lion” and other
movements from Saint-Saëns’ suite investigating how the composer has used
timbre and other elements of music to create descriptive pieces before
creating their own “class Carnival of the Animals” suite, linked by
Saint-Saëns’ “March of the Royal Lion” theme. There are a range of
“animal-inspired” songs to accompany the unit, which can be sung as rounds
and pupils are also given the opportunity to listen to other “non-animal
related” pieces of descriptive music from different times and places by other
composers. Element
Focus - Pitch, Texture, Timbre & Dynamics, Melody & Harmony |
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Scheme of Work |
Lesson Plan (PDF) |
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Lesson 1 Exploring Birdsong |
Resource Bundle |
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Lesson 2 Exploring The
Aquarium |
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Lesson 3 Exploring Peter and
the Wolf |
Resource Bundle |
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Lesson 4 Exploring The March
of the Royal Lion Theme |
Resource Bundle |
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Lesson 5 Composing a class
“Carnival of the Animals” Suite |
Resource Bundle |
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Lesson 6 Performing a class
“Carnival of the Animals” Suite |
Resource Bundle |
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Animal Crackers Composing Cards |
Listening to Descriptive Bird Music (uses Audio 3) |
Aquarium Composing Cards |
Carnival of the Animals Composing
Sheet |
Evaluating the class ‘Carnival of the
Animals’ |
Animal Detectives Listening Sheet (uses Audio 8) |
Exploring Descriptive Music (uses Audio 11) |
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Worksheet 8 - Listening to ‘Peter and
the Wolf’ (uses Audio 14 or
Video 2) |
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Song Sheet 1 - “Animal Crackers
Songpack” A selection of 17 “Animal-themed” songs
suitable for singing in unison, rounds and as partner songs, together with
ostinato instrumental accompaniments. MIDI 1 - Algy (song
melody in unison then as a 4-part round); MIDI
2 - Algy - (ostinato accompaniment repeated 8 times) MIDI 3 - Lady, Come
down and See (song melody in unison and then as a 4-part round); MIDI 4 - Lady, Come Down and See (ostinato
and chords accompaniment repeated 16 times) MIDI 5 - White
Swans (song melody in unison then as a 4-part round); MIDI 6 - White Swans (ostinato and chords accompaniment repeated
16 times) MIDI 7 - Cuckoo’s
Gone Away (song melody in unison then as a 3-part round); MIDI 8 - Cuckoo’s Gone Away (ostinato and
chord accompaniment repeated 12 times) MIDI 9 - Why
Shouldn’t my Goose? (song melody in unison and then as a 4-part round); MIDI 10 - Donkeys and Carrots (song melody in
unison and then as a 4-part round) MIDI 11 - Why
Shouldn’t my Goose? and Donkeys and Carrots performed together as “partner
songs” (repeated twice) MIDI 12 - Why
Shouldn’t my Goose? and/or Donkeys and Carrots (chords and bass ostinato
accompaniment repeated 16 times) MIDI 13 - Softly
Sings the Donkey (song melody in unison then as a 4-part round); MIDI 14 - Softly Sings the Donkey (chords
accompaniment repeated 16 times) MIDI 15 - Morning
Mister Blackbird (song melody in unison then as a 4-part round); MIDI 16 - Morning Mister Blackbird (ostinato
and chord accompaniment repeated 12 times) MIDI 17 - Thirty
Purple Birds (song melody in unison and then as a 4-part round); MIDI 18 - Song of the Frogs (song melody in
unison and then as a 4-part round) MIDI 19 - Frogs
Festival (song melody in unisons and then as a 4-part round); MIDI 20 - Frogs Festival (ostinato and chords
accompaniment repeated 16 times) MIDI 21 -
Kookaburra (song melody in unison and then as a 4-part round); MIDI 22 - Kookaburra (recorder/vocal
ostinatos repeated 16 times) MIDI 23 - Brown and
Yellow Keskidee (song melody in unison and then as a 4-part round); MIDI 24 - Brown and Yellow Keskidee (ostinato
and chord accompaniment repeated 16 times) MIDI 25 - Three
Blind Mice (song melody in unison and then as a 4-part round); MIDI 26 - Poor Fly (song melody in unison and
then as a 2-part round) MIDI 27 - Baby
Sardine (song melody in unison and then as a 3-part round); MIDI 28 - Mister
Rabbit (song melody in unison and then as a 9-part round); MIDI 29 - Mister Rabbit (ostinatos and chord
accompaniment repeated 12 times) |
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Score 1 - March of the Royal Lion
from ‘Carnival of the Animals’ - Saint-Saëns Audio example on
Audio 1 Theme example on
MIDI 30 |
Score 2 - Birdsongs to Perform Modelled on MIDI
31-35 MIDI 31 - The
Cuckoo MIDI 32 - The Robin MIDI 33 - The Song Thrush MIDI 34 - The
Rooster MIDI 35 - The Nightingale |
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The Aviary from ‘Carnival of the
Animals’ - Saint-Saëns |
The Cuckoo - Daquin |
Extract from ‘On Hearing the First
Cuckoo in Spring’ - Delius |
Fish Bowl (uses Audio 6) |
Introduction and March of the Royal
Lion from ‘Carnival of the Animals’ - Saint-Saëns |
Tiger - Henry Cowell |
Descriptive Music Picture Matching (uses Audio 10) |
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Animals and Characters in ‘Peter and
the Wolf’ (uses Audio 12 or
Video 1) Instruments and Sections/Families of
the Orchestra |
Audio 13 Animals’ - Saint-Saëns |
My Animal Crackers Learning |
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