Intro to Ostinato

Intro to Ostinato

MIS VA Music Session Week 8

with Ms. Ameerah Eaddy

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Homeroom Teacher

GoNoodle: Get Moving

Let's start by moving with the Young Dylan Dance Along: Repeat the Beat.

It's like echo claps but with movement.

Purpose

The purpose of this lesson is to introduce ostinato

and create & improvise various ostinati within a song.

SC General Music Standards & Benchmarks

Artistic Process: 

Creating--I can use the elements of music to communicate new musical ideas and works.

Anchor Standard 2:

 I can improvise music.

GM.CR.NH.2.1 - I can improvise simple ostinati patterns within a given meter.

QuaverSEL Song:

"I'm Motivated"

While this song plays,

tap, clap, or pat the steady beat.

Ostinato

from OnMusic Dictionary

[Italian, unceasing, obstinate]

A short melodic, rhythmic, or harmonic pattern that is repeated throughout an entire composition or some portion of a composition.

In My Words:

A short repeated pattern

A short repeated pattern

A short repeated pattern

A short repeated pattern

Repeated Patterns Everywhere

• Repeated patterns can be seen in math, nature, art, and so many other places.

• Repeated patterns can be seen and heard in music, too.

• Can you think of some other places or times where you've encountered repeated patterns?

Listen for the repeated pattern.

"I'm Motivated" had a rhythmic repeated pattern in it.

Can you hear it in this clip?

Say it and play it!

ti-ti ta (shh) ta | ta ta ti-ti ta ||

A2E Creations & Designs

Let's Try It

• Play the ostinato you just learned with the song.

• Get ready to create your own four beat ostinato.

Your Turn to Create

It needs to equal four beats.

You may use a combination of quarter notes (ta), quarter rests (shh), eighth note pairs (ti-ti), and even half notes (to-e). It must be a combination that equals FOUR.

Create and Write Your Ostinato

Come back after you write it to perform with the song.

You've got five minutes to write and practice before performing it.

Write your ostinato in the form to be scored.

*Must equal four beats

*Must use more than one kind of note value

*May use a quarter rest IF you want to

Open Ended

For those doing this through Quizizz, write your ostinato here.

"I'm Motivated" Clip

with YOUR ostinato!

How are you feeling about ostinato?

We are doing rhythm ostinatos.

Poll

How are you feeling about ostinati?

• I have it!

• I think I've got it!

• I'm almost there; I just need a little help.

• I am unsure.

• I don't have it.

Improvise

Creating music on the spot

To make up on the spot

To make up as you go along

You Improvise

• I'll play the ostinato while you improvise using body percussion.

• You may use your desk or table also.

Questions & Answers

• These are NOT echo patterns.

• Question: I will perform a four-beat rhythm pattern.

• Answer: You will IMPROVISE a four-beat answer. Your pattern should be different than mine and feel more like an answer to my rhythmic question.

• GET READY!

• GET READY!

• GET READY!

A2E C&D

...and now for OSTINATO reinforcement

"Ostinato Explained!" Mr. Gossard

Multiple Choice

What is an ostinato?

• Something you make up as you go along

• a short repeated pattern

Multiple Choice

What does it mean to improvise?

• to make up as you go along

• a short repeated pattern

Multiple Choice

What does it mean to improvise?

• to make up as you go along

• a short repeated pattern

Closing & Launch

We started with movement and will end with some movement.

Complete the FORM and come back for Blazer Fresh's "Banana Banana Meatball" from GoNoodle. This song is full of patterns!

As you listen and move, I hope you have a great, safe day!