 Trinidad Carnival Part 2

Bellwork: Define Terms  Harmony: A musical voice that is closely tied to the melody, but remains a secondary part  Tonic: The first note of a scale, which serves as a ‘home base’ around which the other resolve  Step: notes which are right next to each other  Skip: notes that have at least one other note in-between.

Announcements  Reading Outline #1 is due tomorrow, Friday.  Reading Outline #2 is due Tuesday.  Test on Trinidad is this Thursday August 21 st

Outcomes  Scholars Will:  Grammar: Learn musical terminology and basic facts about the history of the steel drum and calypso.  Logic: Compare the rustic sound of the island drums with the refined sound of the desperadoes steel orchestra.  Rhetoric: Design your own carnival costume.

Active Listening #2 Calypso Dance  What other instruments can you hear in the background?  What images come into your mind when you hear this music?

Just the facts Pan Calypso Dance  The harmony is played by the double tenor pan and accompanies the melody by the interval of a third.  In a steel band there are other instruments that comprise the “engine room”.  These instruments include: drum set, conga drum, auto brake drum, maracas, claves, guiro and cowbell.

Famous Steel Bands  Desperadoes  Invaders  Trinidad All-Steel Percussion Orchestra

Band Names  Bands were also named after famous American movies and film stars—for example, the band “Casablanca”

Video clip- The Desperadoes, Live!

Snapshot  Describe the stage presence of the performers—how are they engaging the audience?  Are multiple musicians playing each part?  Which steel drum types do you see?

Active Listening: Symphony in C, 4 th movement  While you are listening to this song answer the following questions:  How are dynamics (loud and soft) utilized in this piece?  Can you hear more than one melody?

Just the Facts, Pan Symphony in C  The steel drums in this excerpt are reminiscent of a calliope, a pipe organ used in carousels.  The genre of this piece is classical.  The instruments used in this example are of a higher quality than the instruments heard in examples 1 and 2.  A person who takes an existing piece of music and transcribes it for a different setting or ensemble is called an arranger.  Besides the melody in this piece there is also a counter-melody, a tune added to the melody, literally meaning “against the melody”.

The Big Picture:  The steel band movement is a peoples’ movement.

CFU: Whiteboards  Write down the answer to the following questions.  Turn over your whiteboard  When I say, raise your whiteboard in the air.

Q1  What is the first note of a scale, which serves as a ‘home base’ around which the other resolve?

Q2  The following instruments drum set, conga drum, auto brake drum, maracas, claves, guiro and cowbell make up what important section of the steel band?

Q3  In Calypso Dance, what type of pan plays the harmony?

Q4  The sound of the steel drums in Symphony in C are reminiscent of what carnival instrument?

Carnival—Pre-knowledge  What American city is famous for its carnival celebration?  What does Carnival mean in Latin?  What role does religion play in carnival?  How are costumes used in carnival?

Guided Notes— Carnival!  In Trinidad, to lime means to enjoy oneself.  The biggest “lime” is Carnival!  The steel band competition in carnival is called Panorama.  To jump up means to dance.  A mas is short for masquerade, it is a costume ball.  The tradition of carnival occurs in countries with a history of Catholicism and slavery.

The Canboulay Procession  The burning of the cane was a ritual performed on the first day of carnival.  Since slaves were brutally forced to extinguish cane fires, the act of setting them showed a reversal of power symbolizing the freed Trinidadians right to celebrate carnival.

CFU: Answer One  The Canboulay Procession.  How did it serve to empower the emancipated slaves?  What does it represent?

Empowerment through parody  Carnival empowers people to mimic those in power through satire and comedy.

CFU: Speechify  To Speechify is to use extravagant language to harass victims in a playful banter.  Choose a partner, or create an invisible foe and write out a script of playful banter—be creative in your insults, and be gentle =)  Use creative similes and metaphors to bate your opponent.

The plays the thing: Characters of Carnival  Pierrots are clowns who engage in verbal combat.  Pierrot Grenaades are clowns who are boastful pretentious scholars.  Wild Indians are from the Warrahoun tribe of the Orinoco delta.  The Road March King is the calypsonian whose calypso is most frequently played during the road march.  Midnight robbers are gunslingers dressed in Elizabethan costumes decorated with symbols of death.  Fancy Indians are characters derived from American Western movies.  Soucouyants are vampire witches.  Diablesses are devils and devilesses.

Check for understanding: Design it.  Choose one of the characters that make up carnival.  Pretend you have saved all your money from the year to invest in your carnival costume.  Create a costume of your own design for the character you chose.  Select colors for the costume—specify materials you will use for the various parts of the costume.  Use the blank paper provided to draw your design.

Exit Ticket  1. This occurs when pitches in a melody are right next to each other: ___________.  2. Name a few instruments that could be members of the “engine room”:  3. A person who takes an existing piece of music and transcribes it for a different  setting or ensemble is called an _________________.  4. _________________ are clowns who engage in verbal combat.