Teacher Resource 7 - OMEA
Teacher Resource 7
Jingle Bells Variations – Teacher Reference Sheet - Lesson 3 ACTION!
|Theme |Timbre-Texture: Bells, piano, very clear bass line- |
| |Tempo and Dynamics: are moderate |
| |Style: classical / pop |
|Var. 1 |Style: techno disco beat - melody still recognizable- |
|Bass Hunter |Texture-Timbre: hand claps on off beats - strong drum beat - electronic instrumental section - echo effects - |
| |speaking commentary |
| |Beat-Rhythm: driving beat - at about 2 minutes the rhythm of the words change, and there are dotted notes |
| |added |
|Var. 2 |Style-Timbre- Texture: traditional jazz instruments - (e.g., bass, trumpet, trombone, keyboard, drum set) |
|Diana Krall and jazz |Rhythm and Melody many changes, no straight eighth notes, added notes |
|orchestra | |
|Var. 3 |Style-Timbre-Texture-Form: Celtic - hammered dulcimer - guitar – marimbula - this is actually a hybrid of |
|Beltaine |“Mari’s Wedding” and “Jingle Bells”. The melody of “Jingle Bells” doesn’t appear until 1:10 in. Students can |
| |listen for when it comes in. |
|Var. 4 |Form-Texture: there is a counter melody |
|Sandler and Young |Language: counter melody is sung in French |
| |Style-Timbre: pop style, using strings and woodwind orchestral instruments |
|Var. 5 |Style: jazz (“swung” notes) |
|Frank Sinatra |Timbre: strings, bells, choir as back-up singers |
|Var. 6 |Style: rag time |
|Billy Pollard |Tempo: speeds up at the end |
| |Timbre: solo piano |
| |Melody: lots of embellishments in the melody |
|Var. 7 Schroeder from |This is a short clip where Lucy asks Schroeder to play “Jingle Bells”. |
|“Peanuts” |He plays it three times...once with smooth notes (Articulation, style) |
| |Once with an organ sound (Timbre) and once with very short Toy Piano sounds (Articulation, Timbre) |
|Var. 8 Nickelodeon Punjabi |Melody-Rhythm-Form: segmented melody, and the melody has been changed in places |
|Parody |Timbre: Instruments are quite different sounding. |
|Var. 9 |Timbre: starts with piano, bass and voice - at about 1:44 changes to banjo, bells and drums - at about 3 |
|Bare Naked Ladies |minutes changes to an all vocal interlude |
| |Tempo: slow then fast then quite fast |
| |Dynamics: also change |
|Var. 10 Bratislava Boy’s |Style: Victorian England, |
|Choir |Texture: four-part harmony |
| |Timbre: orchestral accompaniment |
|Var. 11 |Timbre- Texture: bells and violin |
|Blank Shot Instrumental |Mood/Style: quiet - like a lullaby |
|Var. 12 |A set of different variations on Twinkle- sung by an eight voice man’s choir. |
|Captain Smartypants Version|1st variation is in Pig Latin, |
| |2nd in 3/4 time, (you can hear the melody from “Bolero” and “Carol of the Bells” in the background) |
| |3rd variation is in 5/4 time, |
| |4th is back to 4/4 time, with lots of different sound effect instruments added at the end. |
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