Week 1 | Grade 8 Music Explorations: Unconventional Instruments

Week 1: April 20 – April 24

Objective: Music Appreciation in the Unexpected | Recycled Materials, Vegetables

 

Instructions:

  • Watch the videos for the week.
  • Respond to the questions. Feel free to go beyond the questions and express your personal experience. Did anything make you stop and think? Tell me!
  • Email your work to claire_oliverio@sd42.ca
  • (Use the subject heading: Music 8, Week 1)

 

 

Videos Response Questions

(Take care in your responses as they will make up for Term 3 mark)

Landfill Harmonic – Recycled Orchestra (3:31)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYbORpgSmjg

 

Trash Instruments (3:21) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKzflCztXd4

 

What instruments were you able to recognize?

 

What were the instruments made of?

 

Bonus: Can you make your own instruments out of recycled materials? Send me pictures if you do!

 

Vegetable Orchestra (2:45) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xM1EjIDLMLY

 

Africa cover with sweet potato and squash (4:02) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRLfGwQ7Nsw

 

How were they able to make sound out of their instrument?

 

What were the instruments made of?

 

 

Do you have any questions?

As always, please feel free to get in touch with me over email. I am happy to answer any questions you may have. I look forward to reading your work.

 

Due: Friday, April 24, 2020

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