FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2015

QUOTE:
“What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself.
  There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.”

AUTHOR: Ludwig van Beethoven

MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“Beethoven thinks he is unique, better than others. Through 

arrogant, his ego helped him produce beautiful music."

COMPOSER

COPLAND

Norman Rockwell

Norman Rockwell

Lincoln Portrait
Narrated by Gregory Peck
Slide Show Produced by James Ayala

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpocnsH3D7k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahWeXfTsjuA&feature=related

LeRoy Neiman

Lincoln Portrait
Narrated by Henry Fonda

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sv4Xzyn0wk

Marsden Hartley

LESSON PLAN

Aaron Copland and Lincoln Portrait

http://www.newhavensymphony.org/uploads/File/2012%20YPC%20Curriculum%20Guide.pdf

© Education Through Music, Inc. May be reproduced for educational purposes.

N.C.Wyeth

CURRICULUM CONNECTIONS
Social Studies: Abraham Lincoln, Civil War

The Peacemakers
(Ulysses Grant, William Sherman, Abraham Lincoln, David D. Porter)

AIM

Students will explore how music can create mood by listening, discussing and writing.

MATERIALS

Recording with excerpts

Information worksheet

Lyric sheet

ASSESSMENT

Read, correct and review homework assignments.

PROCEDURE

1
Review music vocabulary: 

piano, forte, crescendo, decrescendo, dolce.

2

Ask the question to the class: 

“Can music express emotion or feeling? 

How? 

Give examples.” 

Write responses on the board.

3

Introduce American composer Aaron Copland. 

Write his name, dates, and Lincoln Portrait on the board. 

Hand out information worksheet and read aloud or silently.

4

Listen to two short excerpts: 

the beginning of Appalachian Spring or the Clarinet Concerto 

and the beginning of Fanfare for the Common Man. 

Play the first 30 seconds of each. 

After listening to each ask students to use two words to describe how the music “felt.” 

Write responses on the board.

5

Copland wrote another piece called Lincoln Portrait.

What is a portrait?

Can music be a portrait?

How?

6

Create asemantic web for Abraham Lincoln.

Ask children to provide information about Lincoln

(16th president, very tall, had a beard, freed the slaves,

Civil War, assassinated, penny and five dollar bill, etc.).

7

Ask students to listen to the beginning of the work and to

raise their hand when they hear something unusual (narrator).

Play the beginning of Lincoln Portrait.

8

What do you call someone who tells a story?

In the Lincoln Portrait, Copland has chosen to have a narrator speak during the music.

Who do you think he is going to speak about?

Whose words will he use?

9

Pass out the lyrics sheet.

Listen to the excerpt and point out changes in mood.

Pause occasionally to make a point or ask about the mood of the music.

10

Review assignment for homework.

Young People’s Concert

NHSO

http://discoveryorchestra.org/wp-content/

uploads/2013/11/Copland-Lincoln-Portrait.pdf

Carving of Abraham Lincoln at Mount Rushmore, ca. 1934

George P.A. Healy

Mathew B. Brady

John Wesley Jarvis, 1861

LISTEN TO MUSIC ABOUT 

LINCOLN'S GETTYSBURG ADDRESS

BY FERDE GROFE:

https://soundcloud.com/kevin-tam-2/01-lincolns-gettysburg-address/sets

THANKSGIVING SONGS

Thanksgiving Day

Thanksgiving Day will soon be here

It comes around but once a year

If I could only have my way,

We'd have Thanksgiving every day

Landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth by Currier and Ives

President George Washington's Proclamation of Thanksgiving
Issued, October 3, 1789

President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed
Thanksgiving a national holiday in 1863,

supposedly as a response to a campaign
organized by magazine editor Sara Joseph
Hale. In 1939, President Franklin Roosevelt
moved Thanksgiving Day forward one week,

as it is presently celebrated.

The Pilgrims Came

The Pilgrims came across the sea,

And never thought of you and me;

And yet it's very strange the way

We think of them Thanksgiving day.

We tell their story, old and true

Of how they sailed across the blue,

And found a new land to be free

And built their homes quite near the sea.

Every child knows well the tale

Of how they bravely turned the sail

And journeyed many a day and night,

To worship God as they thought right.

~Author Unknown.~

Come, Ye Thankful People, Come

Come Ye Thankful People, Come

Instrumental with Lyrics

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66AqQz9qBWQ

Thanksgiving

The year has turned its circle,

The seasons come and go.

The harvest all is gathered in

And chilly north winds blow.

Orchards have shared their treasures,

The fields, their yellow grain,

So open wide the doorway ---

Thanksgiving comes again!

~Old Rhyme.~

We Gather Together

We Gather Together

Instrumental

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3RbJk4TvI0

WE GATHER TOGETHER:
A PARODY
WE GATHER TOGETHER
TO ASK THE LORD'S BLESSING
FOR TURKEY AND DRESSING
AND CRANBERRY SAUCE.
IT WAS SLIGHTLY DISTRESSING
BUT NOW WE'RE CONVALESCING
SO SING PRAISES TO HIS NAME
AND FORGET NOT TO FLOSS.

OUR NEAREST AND DEAREST
WE DON'T WANT CONFESSING
IT'S SORT OF DEPRESSING
TO HAVE THEM SO NEAR.
OUR FEELINGS SUPPRESSING
FOR LIGHTLY ACQUIESCING
AND PERFECTLY PROFESSING
WE'RE GLAD THEY WERE HERE.

WE GATHERED TOGETHER
AND GOT THE LORD'S BLESSING
OF COURSE WE'RE JUST GUESSING
'CAUSE HOW CAN YOU TELL?
OUR STOMACH'S ARE BLOATING
OUR KIDNEYS NEARLY FLOATING
HELLOS ARE VERY NICE 
BUT GOODBYES CAN BE SWELL
http://spikesmusic.spike-jamie.com

'Twas the Night of Thanksgiving'
Twas the night of Thanksgiving,
But I just couldn't sleep.
I tried counting backwards,
I tried counting sheep

The leftovers beckoned ---
The dark meat and white,
But I fought the temptation
with all of my might.

Tossing and turning
with anticipation
The thought of a snack
became infatuation.

So I raced to the kitchen,
Flung open the door,
And gazed at the fridge
full of goodies galore.

I gobbled up turkey
and buttered potatoes,
Pickles and carrots,
beans and tomatoes.

I felt myself swelling
so plump and so round,
Till all of a sudden,
I rose off the ground !!

I crashed through the ceiling.
Floating into the sky....
With a mouthful of pudding
and a handful of pie,

But I managed to yell
as I soared past the trees ...
HAPPY EATING TO ALL !!
PASS THE CRANBERRIES PLEASE !!

Over The River and
Through the Woods

Over The River and
Through the Woods
Performed by:
Danny Kaye and the Andrews Sisters

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHZSaikgKG8

The original poem as published in the 1854 edition
 of Flowers for Children, Part II, pp. 25-28.

Grandma Moses: Over The River To Grandma, 1945

Here is a funny Thanksgiving song:

Thanksgiving Overture
Based on
Rossini's William Tell Overture

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gkmpd3Xp2GM

THANKSGIVING TONGUE TWISTERS

Ten tricky two-toed turkeys
trotted on the table.
Greedy gobblers
grabbed the gravy.
Floyd flipped
five fine flapjacks!

Six sick swans
slurped soup slowly.

Chef chopped
cheese chunks cheerfully.

Betty baked a better batch
of buttered biscuits.

Eleven leaping lizards
licked lovely lemon lollipops.

Peter Pilgrim picked
a peck of pickled peppers;

a peck of pickled peppers,
Peter Pilgrim picked.

If Peter Pilgrim picked
a peck of pickled peppers,

where's the peck of pickled peppers
Peter Pilgrim picked?