![]() ![]() For example, one could ask, “What does ‘egg,’ ‘dad,’ ‘fed’ sound like as opposed to ‘dad,’ ‘egg,’ ‘fed’?” The results would probably be interesting, and some might be inspiration for a musical composition. Students didn’t have much time within the hour to order and reorder their created Action blocks, which would have been interesting. They were also asked to put the stack of notes into an Action block, which would allow them to give the melodic snippet a meaningful name and allow them to make copies for use and reuse within a larger structure. This group of mostly second grade students had to find the correct letters and order them to make the words. They pulled out musical alphabet note blocks from the palette and selected the letters corresponding with the words on their list. Inputting the words into Music BlocksĪfter the students had their list written down, they began putting the words into Music Blocks. We brainstormed as a group at first to get warmed up, but students quickly got the hang if it and, before we knew it, the students had come up with some very good lists. Next, we had students use paper and pencil to write down a list of words that could be created with the musical alphabet. Musical alphabet above with corresponding solfege below ![]() MAP Family Learning Center teaching artist Huanhuan at right. Huanhuan’s goal, however, was to familiarize the students with solfege, so she steered the activity in a way that helped familiarize students with solfege. This same activity could be done without introducing solfege, by only using letters. Huanhuan drew on a whiteboard the musical alphabet with solfege below it. Screenshots of code created by students during the lesson. Because there is no “H,” a word like “Chef” cannot be spelled in the musical alphabet. “Chef” is an example of a word that cannot be spelled with the musical alphabet because of the “H.” “Dad” is “Re,” “La,” “Re” in solfege. For example, two of the words she had were “egg” and “bag.” Both of these words work, because they can be spelled only using letters in the musical alphabet, which are A, B, C, D, E, F, and G. To start, Huanhuan came up with a few words to demonstrate the idea. alphabet notation) to spell words (in English). The concept is simple: use the musical alphabet (a.k.a. MAPFLC teaching artist Huanhuan Xie, student of Carole Haber at New England Conservatory, recently led a very nice lesson that I would like to share with you! Word games with the musical alphabet ![]()
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