Week 11

This week was alot of fun. We started off the week learning different stories, and playing sounds to go along with them. During the song of Chicken Little, several students got the oppertunity to play new instruments. The song was very interesting, and creative. It was a catchy tune. In addition to raise creativity, using music for stories can help students remember them better. Anything that students need, or want, to remember is always better retained if it's put to music. Singing a song will stick better than repetition.
Binary form is a music piece that has to distinct parts. This is very common in modern day pop songs. The songs will have a verse, which the music will be the same, but the words different, then the chorus, which both the words and music are the same. Usually the part that listeners remember is the chorus. A good example of this is the mariposa song that we danced to earlier this week. I had no idea what the verses were, but I knew when the chorus was playing. It was also easier to remember which is these was the verse because the dance was correlated to what the music was saying.