What is a word that starts with the letter E, G, H, J, K, N, U, W, X, Y, and Z that is associated music?
January 302010
I am a first year teacher, and I am working on lesson plans for my music class. I am wanting to come up with a lesson plan for each letter of the alphabet. Example- For "A" I will teach about "a capella music", for "B" the "bass clef", for "C" I will teach about "conducting music", and so on. I am having trouble coming up with a music term/lesson plan for the letters E, G, H, J, K, N, U, W, X, Y, and Z. Any ideas? Please state as many ideas as possible for each letter. Best answers will get 10 points!
E
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Ethnomusicology - There should be enough material here for at least ten lessons. And some fascinating stuff, at that.
Euphony
G
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Gramophone - Lesson on recorded music, its invention, effects upon performance (weak voices getting heard), distribution, evolution of popular music across borders, musical preservation, etc. Wax cylinder device used by Alam Lomax to record, preserve and disseminate the words of early blues singers like Leadbelly. There’s a beautiful film about this process called Songcatcher, showing a musicologist staggering up and down muddy Appalachian hillsides with a wax cylinder recording device, and the soundtrack has won awards.
Griot - African storyteller. There is a long tradition of using music for storytelling, including in U.S. folk music, which itself is influenced by African music and traditions of storytelling therein
Gregorian Chant
H
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Harmony - This seems like the obvious choice
Harmonics - But this is also interesting from a more technical standpoint
Harmonization - More of a class participation thing, I guess
Heterophony
Homophony
Hearing
J
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Jazz - The original American music.
Jive
K
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Key - Enough said!
Key Signature
N
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Noise - Lesson exploring the question "What is music, and who gets to say what is and what isn’t?" Porgy and Bess - uses of common sounds considered to be noise in music. Modern tradition of sampling and how it compares to the folk tradition of adapting the musical work of others.
Non-music
Nonharmonic
Nonauditory
Noninstrumental music
Nonresonant
U
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Unsounded - Lesson on things that are heard by the listener even though they are never actually sounded in the performance of a musical work, like a missing beat from a pattern that had been repeated, or a missing beat in a syncopated melody.
Unison - Lesson on when more is "more" and when it is "less." Recording technique of a single vocalist overlaying her own vocals to attain greater richness of tone. Expanding from unison to harmony and back into unison for effect.
Unharmonious - Lesson on uses of dissonance in music. Moving from dissonance to harmony as a form of resolution.
Unmusical - Lesson on how value systems relate to music. When are values organic? When are they imposed?
Unsoundable
W
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Western Music - Lessons too plentiful for words - or even notes.
Waveforms - Lesson on sine wave, square wave, how they look, how they sound, how they are generated and combined in synthesizers, evelopes, etc.
X
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This was a hard one. I think you may have to riff off of Xylophone, going from the particular instrument to more general
concepts, unless you can think of something I haven’t! This was the best I could find.
Xylophone
Xylophonic
Xylorimbas
Y
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Yodeling - If nothing else, a lesson on this could be fun. Maybe also related to harmonics, as a tie-in to music theory.
How harmonies can be "heard" even though they occur over time rather than simultaneously. The persistence of sound in the mind, like the persistence of vision when viewing a zoetrope (the well-know spinning piece of cardboard with the bird on one side and the cage on the other, which, when spun, makes the bird appear to be in the cage).
Yu - Interval on the Chinese scale, as a segue to non-Western music
Yip Harburg - Music of the Great Depression. Music as social commentary.
Z
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Zouk - Segue to African music.
Zauberflote - Mozart’s "Magic Flute" opera
Zingarelli, Niccolo Antonio - Italian composer. The official Italian Scrabble word list happens to be named Zingarelli, although I’m not certain why that is!
Zither - Possible lesson on folk instruments, how they evolve, how similar instruments vary from one culture to another (e.g., bagpipe vs. gaida)
Hope that at least some of these are helpful!
January 30th, 2010 at 6:44 pm
i got some good idea ;))))) quit teaching it sucks tbh kids are a pain and low pay=failure
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January 30th, 2010 at 7:00 pm
if you teach in midddle or high school
E= Emminem…….you can teach them about the history of rap music
hope this helps= )
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January 30th, 2010 at 7:38 pm
E: Earning money as a musician, Editing music on a computer, Editing synthesizer patches, Elements of music
G: Getting better by practicing regularly, Going to concerts, the G clef or treble clef
H: Horns and other wind instruments, Helping others via music therapy
J: Jazz
K: "Kings of Swing" (Benny Goodman and other swing artists)
N: New styles of music
U: Unconventional instruments (composers like John Cage used a lot of them)
W: Wagner, Waltzes, World music
X: Xavier Cugat, the Latin American bandleader
Y: Yes (the British progressive rock band…some of their songs are as complex as classical symphonies)
Z: ZZ Top (not as highbrow as Yes, but it’s all that comes to mind)
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January 30th, 2010 at 7:47 pm
E
===
Ethnomusicology - There should be enough material here for at least ten lessons. And some fascinating stuff, at that.
Euphony
G
===
Gramophone - Lesson on recorded music, its invention, effects upon performance (weak voices getting heard), distribution, evolution of popular music across borders, musical preservation, etc. Wax cylinder device used by Alam Lomax to record, preserve and disseminate the words of early blues singers like Leadbelly. There’s a beautiful film about this process called Songcatcher, showing a musicologist staggering up and down muddy Appalachian hillsides with a wax cylinder recording device, and the soundtrack has won awards.
Griot - African storyteller. There is a long tradition of using music for storytelling, including in U.S. folk music, which itself is influenced by African music and traditions of storytelling therein
Gregorian Chant
H
===
Harmony - This seems like the obvious choice
Harmonics - But this is also interesting from a more technical standpoint
Harmonization - More of a class participation thing, I guess
Heterophony
Homophony
Hearing
J
===
Jazz - The original American music.
Jive
K
===
Key - Enough said!
Key Signature
N
===
Noise - Lesson exploring the question "What is music, and who gets to say what is and what isn’t?" Porgy and Bess - uses of common sounds considered to be noise in music. Modern tradition of sampling and how it compares to the folk tradition of adapting the musical work of others.
Non-music
Nonharmonic
Nonauditory
Noninstrumental music
Nonresonant
U
===
Unsounded - Lesson on things that are heard by the listener even though they are never actually sounded in the performance of a musical work, like a missing beat from a pattern that had been repeated, or a missing beat in a syncopated melody.
Unison - Lesson on when more is "more" and when it is "less." Recording technique of a single vocalist overlaying her own vocals to attain greater richness of tone. Expanding from unison to harmony and back into unison for effect.
Unharmonious - Lesson on uses of dissonance in music. Moving from dissonance to harmony as a form of resolution.
Unmusical - Lesson on how value systems relate to music. When are values organic? When are they imposed?
Unsoundable
W
===
Western Music - Lessons too plentiful for words - or even notes.
Waveforms - Lesson on sine wave, square wave, how they look, how they sound, how they are generated and combined in synthesizers, evelopes, etc.
X
===
This was a hard one. I think you may have to riff off of Xylophone, going from the particular instrument to more general
concepts, unless you can think of something I haven’t! This was the best I could find.
Xylophone
Xylophonic
Xylorimbas
Y
===
Yodeling - If nothing else, a lesson on this could be fun. Maybe also related to harmonics, as a tie-in to music theory.
How harmonies can be "heard" even though they occur over time rather than simultaneously. The persistence of sound in the mind, like the persistence of vision when viewing a zoetrope (the well-know spinning piece of cardboard with the bird on one side and the cage on the other, which, when spun, makes the bird appear to be in the cage).
Yu - Interval on the Chinese scale, as a segue to non-Western music
Yip Harburg - Music of the Great Depression. Music as social commentary.
Z
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Zouk - Segue to African music.
Zauberflote - Mozart’s "Magic Flute" opera
Zingarelli, Niccolo Antonio - Italian composer. The official Italian Scrabble word list happens to be named Zingarelli, although I’m not certain why that is!
Zither - Possible lesson on folk instruments, how they evolve, how similar instruments vary from one culture to another (e.g., bagpipe vs. gaida)
Hope that at least some of these are helpful!
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Plugged in this pattern: <letter>.*<music-related latin root>.*
to the "Freeplay Search" column of the Lexifind Word Finder at
http://www.lexifind.com
For example,
E.*MUS.* is how I found ETHNOMUSICOLOGY for words starting with the letter E.
It means "show me all words starting with E with MUS somewhere inside them."
The music-related roots (like MUS) that I tried were AUD, BAND, CHOR, HARMO, INSTRU, MUS, ORCH, PHO, SON, SOUN, and SING.
There were a few for which I couldn’t find satisfying words in that manner, so I looked in some online encyclopedias and glossaries of music:
African Music Encyclopedia: http://africanmusic.org/glossary.html
Naxos Glossary of Musical Terminology: http://www.naxos.com/education/glossary.asp?char=A-C
For the really hard ones, like Z, I asked my girlfriend, who came up with Zouk. As a last resort, I used my own brain
(that’s how I got "noise" - there’s a lot of noise in my head).
January 30th, 2010 at 8:24 pm
G- grace note
H- harmony, harmonics, harmonica, harp, harpsichord
K- keeping time, key,
U- ukelele
W- woodwind
X- xylophone
Z- zither
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