Supremacy of Music: American Anthems

and Hymns Influence and Importance

Drumline and more…• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_J2ClYJXlc&feature=

related (drumline)

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xr82RHyCj8&feature=related (alternative style--Street)

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcDE08Bi64k&feature=related (brass instruments)

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS8eipuXYWg&feature=related (street musician)

Famous QuotesOne good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

-Bob Marley

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. -Plato

Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music. -Jimi Hendrix

There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another. -Frank Zappa

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. -Ludwig van Beethoven

Music should be your escape. -Missy Elliot

The Star-Spangled Banner

O say can you see by the dawn's early light,What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming,Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight,O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there;O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave,O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHmdu_I_0zI

Story behind “The Star-Spangled Banner”

• Lyrics come from “Defence of Fort McHenry”

• Written in 1814 by Francis Scott Key

• Written during a time of war with the British-War of 1812

• Made the National Anthem in 1931

• Played before nearly all sporting events

This Land is Your LandThis land is your land, this land is my landFrom California to the New York IslandFrom the Redwood Forest to the Gulf Stream watersThis land was made for you and me.As I went walking that ribbon of highwayI saw above me that endless skywayI saw below me that golden valleyThis land was made for you and me.I roamed and I rambled and I followed my footstepsTo the sparkling sands of her diamond desertsWhile all around me a voice was soundingThis land was made for you and me.When the sun came shining, and I was strollingAnd the wheat fields waving and the dust clouds rollingA voice was chanting, As the fog was lifting,This land was made for you and me.This land is your land, this land is my landFrom California to the New York IslandFrom the Redwood Forest to the Gulf Stream watersThis land was made for you and me.

-Woody Guthrie (1940)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxiMrvDbq3s

America-My Country ‘Tis of Thee

Americaby Samuel F. Smith

My country, 'tis of Thee,Sweet Land of LibertyOf thee I sing;Land where my fathers died,Land of the pilgrims' pride,From every mountain sideLet Freedom ring.My native country, thee,Land of the noble free,Thy name I love;I love thy rocks and rills,Thy woods and templed hills,My heart with rapture thrillsLike that above.Let music swell the breeze,And ring from all the treesSweet Freedom's song;Let mortal tongues awake;Let all that breathe partake;Let rocks their silence break,The sound prolong.Our fathers' God to Thee,Author of Liberty,To thee we sing,Long may our land be brightWith Freedom's holy light,Protect us by thy mightGreat God, our King.

Our glorious Land to-day,'Neath Education's sway,Soars upward still.Its hills of learning fair,Whose bounties all may share,Behold them everywhereOn vale and hill!Thy safeguard, Liberty,The school shall ever be,Our Nation's pride!No tyrant hand shall smite,While with encircling mightAll here are taught the RightWith Truth allied.Beneath Heaven's gracious willThe stars of progress stillOur course do sway;In unity sublimeTo broader heights we climb,Triumphant over Time,God speeds our way!Grand birthright of our sires,Our altars and our firesKeep we still pure!Our starry flag unfurled,The hope of all the world,In peace and light impearled,God hold secure!

America the Beautiful

-Ray Charles

Oh beautiful for heroes proved,In liberating strife,Who more than self, our country loved,And mercy more than life,

America, America may God thy gold refine,Til all success be noblenessAnd every gain devined.

And you know when I was in school,We used to sing it something like this, listen here:

Oh beautiful, for spacious skies,For amber waves of grain,For purple maountain majesties,Above the fruited plain,

But now wait a minute, I'm talking aboutAmerica, sweet AmericaYou know, God done shed his grace on thee,He crowned thy good, yes he did, in brotherhood,From sea to shining sea.

You know, I wish I had somebody to help me sing this(America, America, God shed his grace on thee)America, I love you America, you see,My God he done shed his grace on thee,And you oughta love him for it,Cause he, he, he ,he crowned thy good,He told me he would, with brotherhood,(From sea to shining Sea).Oh lord, oh lord, I thank you Lord(Shining sea).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CILIBlQ2D0Q

Aaron Copland and John Williams—

American Composers

• Aaron Copland born in 1900 and died in1990• Composed music considered by of an “American sound”• Listeners thereby can imagine the vast and large areas of the USA,

with a special feeling for the “Wild West”

• John Williams born in 1932 and still composing to this day• Widely recognized for his film “scores”

Copland Musical Compositions

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NjssV8UuVA

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7U7hPHSkNJo&feature=related

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ajQYANLiug&feature=related

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFNN_ADpYJ0 (best of Williams)

Listening Questions--Copland

1. What jobs has Copland had?

2. What influenced him to include folk songs in his work?

3. Where was he born?

4. How many siblings did he have?

5. In his early twenties where did he go to study?

6. In 1942 Copland was asked to write music about which great American and what was the title of the composition?

Instrument Families

Percussion

Strings

Brass

Woodwind

Discussion• What’s your favourite musical instrument?

• Have you ever learnt to play a musical instrument?

• What musical instrument do you not like the sound of?

• Do you think everyone should learn to play a musical instrument when they are at school?

• Why is it good to learn a musical instrument?

• What is the most unusual musical instrument you know of?

• If you were a musical instrument, what would you be and why?

• How would your life be different if you could play a musical instrument very well?

• What is the most useful musical instrument to know how to play?

• Have you ever been jealous of someone who can play a musical instrument really well?

• What musical instrument looks the most beautiful?

• Do you prefer electric musical instruments or acoustic?

• What musical instruments are unique to your country or culture?

• Do you think a record turntable is a musical instrument when it’s used in hip-hop?

• Can any object be a musical instrument if it’s used to make music?

• What musical instruments from other countries do you love the sound of?

• Do you think a synthesizer can reproduce the sounds of musical instruments?

• What musical instrument sounds best when played solo?