
Using the hand signs on SG18, explore familiar melodies. Music Teacher Extension: Explore Melodies in Solfège Then, ask them to check for accuracy while they listen.
Challenge your students to build the ladder once from memory. Then, encourage students to create a “ladder” on their desks or the floor with big DO at the bottom and small DO at the top as they sing “Do-Re-Mi.” Discuss the opposites of high/low and up/down. Ask students to listen for the solfège syllables and hold up each one as they listen. Using SG19, cut out the cards containing the pictures for DO, RE, MI, FA, SOL, LA, TI, and DO. Show students the original version of “Do-Re-Mi” from The Sound of Music on YouTube. Encourage proper performance etiquette from the audience: when other students are performing, the class should listen and pay attention, and show their appreciation with applause at the end of the performance. Students can perform their signs “on stage” in front of the class. Challenge students to memorize one hand sign each time you listen. Practice hand signs while listening to the song.
Using SG18, teach students the solfège hand signs that can go along with a major scale. sings the seven solfège syllables in a major scale: DO, RE, MI, FA, SOL, LA, and TI. Solfège syllables are the names for each note in a musical scale. Pitches can be organized into a musical scale, or pattern of notes. In music, pitch is a way of talking about how high or low a note is. Solfège is like the alphabet for music!. Solfège (SOL-fehj) is a musical language that helps us learn to sing melodies. Listen again to “Do-Re-Mi” and encourage students to try to sing along and tap the steady beat on their body along with the music.Įxplore Hand Signs and Solfège in “Do-Re-Mi”. She teaches the children to sing and they learn to love her. The Sound of Music is a musical about a nun who becomes a governess (nanny) and takes care of seven children. Annie, Seussical the Musical, Peter Pan, The Lion King). What are some musicals you already know? Let’s make a list (e.g. A musical is a performance that combines songs, spoken words, acting, and dancing. Explain that “Do-Re-Mi” comes from a musical called The Sound of Music by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein. Invite students to describe what they hear in the music. Williamson Music (ASCAP), an Imagem Company, owner of publication and allied rights throughout the World. International Copyright Secured.
Copyright © 1959 by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. Copyright Renewed. “Do-Re-Mi” by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. Williamson Music (ASCAP), an Imagem Company, owner of publication and allied rights throughout the World. Copyright © 1959 by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II.