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Revision as of 15:51, 9 July 2020
| This lesson is part of the Rhythm, Meter & Form category. |
Objectives
- Students will be able to analyze a short text for prosodic meter and scansion.
- Students will be able to set a lyric to music using normative melodic and rhythmic conventions.
- Students will be able to discuss the scansion of a musical excerpt and how it affects the musical and lyrical aspects of the piece.
- Students will understand the role of rhyme scheme in a musical work.
Resources
Class Activities
- Discussion and demonstration of scansion, lyric setting.
- Analysis of a musical excerpt for scansion and rhyme scheme
- Analysis of a given or student-selected text for scansion, and composition of a rhythm and melody which properly accommodates that scansion
Assignments
- Find the scansion of a given lyric (or poem)
- Setting a given lyric to rhythm and/or melody
- Analysis of written and recorded music for scansion