Course Code: AMU1O & AMU2O (Music, Grade 9 & 10, Open)

Lesson: Analyzing Traditional Music from around the World

Students may become frustrated throughout the lesson, it is important that you have another
lesson or activities for the students to do. You can teach a smaller portion of this lesson each day
and allow the students to have a quiet work period for the rest of the class and extend this lesson
over a couple of days. Important to remember that not all students will cooperate, and may need
time to adjust to their new surroundings.

Overall Expectation
B1. The Critical Analysis Process: use the critical analysis process when responding to,
analysing, reflecting on, and interpreting music.

Specific Expectation
B1.1 – Listen to selections that represent a variety of musical styles, and describe and reflect on
their responses to them.

Learning Goals
By the end of this lesson, students will understand:
- Students will understand a variety of musical styles by listening to different excerpts of
each style.
- Students will understand where each excerpt comes from in the world.
- Students will understand how to identify where each excerpt comes from based on the
instrumentation.

Success Criteria
By the end of this lesson, students will demonstrate by doing:
- Students will demonstrate their understanding by describing and reflecting their
responses to each excerpt they listen to.
- Students will demonstrate their knowledge (related to geography) by mapping each
excerpt listened to on a world map.

Lesson Description:
- Today’s lesson will focus on traditional music and the traditional instruments that
represent each specific place from around the world. Students will have the opportunity
to analyse the music they hear. The students will have an analysis handout to fill out
while listening. The students will think of where in the world the music comes from, and
reasons to back up their guess.
Before starting the main activity, start with the minds on activity.
Step-by-Step Lesson Plan:

Before the activity starts

1. Set up the classroom with chairs around the tables. Students will need a surface to write
on.
2. Hang up laminated world map at the front of the classroom.
3. Once students have arrived, provide them the analysis and map handout.
4. Explain the lesson for today’s class. Make sure the students know that the excerpts
are all traditional music and instruments.

Minds on
- Students will guess which instrument they think is being played in the recording.
- Once they have an answer they can raise their hand, once called on they can say their
guess.
- Depending on the classroom environment, you can turn this into a little game to see
who can get the most correct.
- Play the YouTube links listed below. Only play 15-20 seconds for each video.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzk2CjtfiqM - Clarinet
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ss7EJ-PW2Uk - Guitar
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXBGZoBYaLY - Didgeridoo
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgCMBFcifVE - Accordion
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I65fq469P5M - Siku (Pan Flute)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xsovUi9bk4 - Kantele
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPKhBkLgFLk - Fiddle
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=be1jJCH32OU - Flute
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CnhcGpmH9Y - Sitar
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpZiPZwwXhM - Bagpipe
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWLvv_rrSH4 - Harmonica
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1HXNwU2P0o - Reco-reco
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef3K6uy4yQQ - Kemenche
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgqNZmQVStQ - African drums (Djembe &
Dunumba)

Listening Activity
- Each link will bring you to YouTube.
- Start by playing the excerpt for the students. Some excerpts are very long, only play 3 or
4 minutes for those ones. For all the other excerpts, play it entirely.
- While the students are listening to the excerpt, they should be filling out the analysis
handout, and placing a dot on their map of where they think the excerpt comes from.
- Once the song is over go through the questions on the analysis handout (the handout is at
the end of this document).
- Have a student come up to the hanging laminated world map and place a dot of where
they think the excerpt comes from. Give multiple students a chance. Ask them why, and
to provide reasoning.
 - Give the students the correct answer, and place the dot on the world map. This will allow
the students to see the distance between their guess and the correct answer.
- Excerpt 2 and 8 have two songs. Let the students know that there are two excerpts
they are going to listen to for the same place.

Excerpt #1
Holland
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQxITYASgBI
- “Levenslied” meaning life song or song about life.
- Traditional Dutch instruments:
o Accordion
o Violin
o Barrel organ
o Recorder (used in traditional folk music)
o Harmonica (used in traditional folk music)

Excerpt #2
Africa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W05LPtVm5hY - African Tribal Music and African
Melodies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr1Z9jVPBz4 - African Folk Dances Drum Music
- Traditional African instruments:
o Drums
 Djembe
 Dunumba
o Gong
o Rattle
o Kora
o Ngoni
o Mbira

Excerpt #3
Austria
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yt6whZAzTTQ - This song has a cello, accordion, oboe,
guitar, trombone
- Traditional Austrian instruments:
o Styrian harmonica (a type of accordion)
o Fiddle
o Clarinet
o Harp
o Flute
o Brass instruments (trombone)
o Guitar
Excerpt #4
Bolivia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7U_tnxdPq8
- Traditional Bolivian instruments:
o Charango
o Siku
o Quena
o Bass drum
o Reco-reco
o Pinkillu
o Tarka
o Toyos
o Andean saxophone
o Chajchas

Excerpt #5
Finland
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFCixLn9qRw - Nuku Nuku Ancient Finnish Lullaby
- Traditional Finnish Instruments:
o Kantele
o Kokle
o Kankles
o Gusli

Excerpt #6
India
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCV7_LcEruw
- Traditional Indian Instruments
o Sitar
o Sarod
o Sarangi
o Flute
o Sehnai
o Tabla

Excerpt #7
Italy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiENvviVSO4
- Traditional Italian instruments:
o Organetto
o Accordion
o Saltarello
o Tammorra
 o Guitar
o Castanets
o Bagpipe

Excerpt #8
Australian
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nN-542IYoE0 - Aboriginal Didgeridoo Music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3przA4Mgf8 - Gum leaf
- Traditional Australian instruments:
o Didgeridoo
o Bullroarer
o Gum-leaf

Excerpt #9
Turkey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsE05nXQPwo
- Traditional Turkish instruments
o Kemenche
o Oud
o Lute
o Qanun
o Kadum

Conclusion:
- After the activity is done, the lesson will be finished with the students sharing to the
class which song they liked the most, and why. What connect them to that piece of
music.
- Students will take five minutes to do a self-evaluation at the end of class, to assess their
level of engagement, and overall feelings towards the lesson.

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Teaching Strategies & Resources/Materials:

- Laminated world map
- Whiteboard markers
- Computer with internet access for teacher only
- YouTube (Links provided for each excerpt under “Listening Activity”
- Handout for analysis and world map
- Pencils and erasers for students

Assessment Evaluation:
- Students will hand in their analysis and map handout at the end of class. This will allow
you (teacher) to see who was engaged in this activity. This will also provide you with
 which students know what musical terminology, and any additional music knowledge
(history).

Student Accommodations (I need to be prepared to accommodate by)

- Students may need breaks throughout the lesson. Be mindful of their behaviour.
Extend your musical thinking:
- Students will analyze the relationships between the excerpts they listened to.
o Which places in the world had similar sounding music and why.
- Study the history of how each traditional instrument came about.
- How was this music used in the time period it came from? What was its purpose?
 Name: _____________________

Excerpt Analysis

1. What types of instruments do you hear? Is there one main instrument? How do you think
the main instrument(s) is being played? Blown, plucked, bowed, or struck?

2. What rhythms, dynamics, tempos do you hear? Do you hear a particular rhythm pattern
repeating?

3. What is the texture? Is it homophonic, monophonic, polyphonic? How can you tell which
one it is?

4. How does this excerpt make you feel? What comes to mind when listening to this
excerpt?

5. Where in the world do you think this excerpt originated from? WHY.
6. What do you hear in the excerpt that gives you proof? (Validate your answer for question
5)