T2W3

ORFF TEXTURES

What you need:

• Music book (blue)
• Pencil case
• Resonator bars / Orff pitched percussion
• Betsy Sachs' The Boy Who Ate Dog Biscuits

Objectives:

• Listen to a literary serialisation of a related chapter book, The Boy Who Ate Dog Biscuits
• Perform Bow Wow Wow in three-part texture (rhythm, beat and ostinato)
• Clap and chant rhythm mnemonics (e.g. ta, ti-ti) of Bow Wow Wow
• Sing Bow Wow Wow in solfege

Experience & Concept

The Boy Who Ate Dog Biscuits (EL)

• Tuning-in literary serialisation: Teacher reads a chapter (or half a chapter) from Betsy Sachs' The Boy Who Ate Dog Biscuits to whet pupils' appetite for the lesson to come.

Bow Wow Wow

(See given score)

Two-Part (Beat, Ostinato)

• Chant the beat (dog gy dog gy) and ostinato (bad dog stop that bar-king) consecutively as a class.
• Divide the class into two groups to chant in two-part texture. First try: The ostinato can come in one bar after the beat. Second try: Beat and ostinato together in unison.
• Question I (recap): Which is the steady beat (Answer: Dog gy)? Why? 
• Question II: Which is the pattern that keeps repeating (Answer: bad dog stop that bar-king)?
• Introduce the term "ostinato" as "repeated pattern" to pupils.
• Remind pupils that this two-part chanting is a form of texture, as it involves layers.

Three-Part (Beat, Ostinato, Rhythm)

• Teach rhythm to pupils (bow wow wow, whose dog art thou, lit-tle tom-my tuc-ker's dog, bow wow wow).
• Divide the class into three groups to chant in three-part texture. First try: The rhythm can come in one bar after the ostinato; the ostinato can come in one bar after the beat. Second try: Beat, ostinato, rhythm together in unison.
• Question I (recap): What is this third part called (Answer: Rhythm)? Why?
• Question II (recap): What is the structure of this rhythm (Answer: AABA)?

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Application I

Bow Wow Wow (Rhythm Mnemonics)

• Chant all three parts - in rhythm mnemonics!
• If the above is too difficult, chant the 'rhythm' in mnemonics first.

Application II

Bow Wow Wow (Solfege)

• Sing all three parts - in solfege!
• Beat: Do all the way
• Ostinato: Mi all the way
• Melody: Do Do Do, Mi Mi Mi Mi, So So So La So Mi Do, Mi Re Do

Application III

Bow Wow Wow (Lyrics)

• Sing all three parts - in melody with lyrics!

Application IV

Bow Wow Wow (Resonator Bars/Orff Pitched Percussion)

• Play all three parts on Orff pitched percussion or resonator bars!
• Beat: C all the way
• Ostinato: E all the way
• Melody: C C C, E E E E, G G G A G E C, E D C