New York City Department of Education Blueprint Repertoire Series

New York City Department of Education Blueprint Repertoire Series

Humpty DumptyGrade 52 voicesAnd Piano

Words and Music by Dave and Jean Perry

Copyright 2008 Alfred Publishing Co., Inc.All Rights Reserved. Printed in USA.

The Blueprint Repertoire Series contains songs and instrumental pieces with particularly rich opportunities in all five strands of learning in music:

I. Music Making

II. Music Literacy

III. Making Connections

IV. Using Cultural and Community Resources

V. Careers and Lifelong Learning

These pieces come with a concise set of notes to support teachers striving to make each musical experience rich, engaging, and dynamic. Humpty Dumpty Performance notes: This arrangement of Humpty Dumpty is cool, hip and itll get your kids swingin!Making Music

-Warm-up/introduce the piece by singing minor scales

-Teach swing vs. straight eighth notes-Improvise solos/mini melodies over the chord progressions that make up the pieceMusic Literacy

-Listen to recordings of the piece-Vocabulary Swing Straight

Minor

Harmony

Underscoring

Making Connections

-Nursery Rhymes The history of nursery rhymes oral tradition-Royalty Medieval Culture

Using Cultural and Community Resources

-Bring in a jazz combo to accompany the choir after the piece is learned-Field trip to a jazz concert

Careers and Lifelong Learning

-Discuss the different jobs that go into composing this piece of music (i.e. composer, arranger, copyist, performers, teacher, pianist, distributer, licensing)-Are the rights to Humpty Dumpty available? Discuss what the public domain is.