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Music
Inspired by Nature
Program
Area
This activity
is designed for the Grade 9 Arts Program, and fits best into a
unit of study in Instrumental/Vocal Music which deals with Music
Composers.
Learning
Outcomes
Teaching,
learning and evaluation will focus on the student's ability to:
- Recognize
that a large number of songs were inspired by nature;
- Search
their own music collections for environmental themes.
Classroom
Development
- Brainstorm
with your class for a list of environmental themes. Write suggestions
on the chalkboard.
- Display
the attached list called: Music Inspired by Nature on an overhead
for your class. If possible, record samples of as many of these
songs as possible on cassette tapes. Have students travel around
to stations that you have set up in the classroom where they
can listen to these songs with headphones. Then have your students
develop a chart organizer that would display the following information:
Musical Style, Artist, Date, Theme.
- For a
homework assignment, have your students bring in a list of all
the songs that have environmental themes from their personal
music collection. Have your students add the information from
their songs to their charts.
Ask your
students: "How important are environmental themes in lyrics
to popular music?"
Timing
- 10 min-for
environmental themes brainstorm
- 60 min-to
examine Examples of Environmentally Inspired Music
- 20 min-to
add the student songs to the chart organizer
Resources
- Billboard
Magazine
- Rolling
Stone Magazine
- Canadian
Musician Magazine
- RPM Canadian
Music Magazine
- Book
of Rock History, by Norm T. Knight
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