Music Content Area Literacy

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Lecture: Speaking

 

Your Voice Brand

 

How to Speak (even when you have nothing to say)

 

How to speak so that people want to listen

 

4 Words that Make You Sound Weak

 

 

 

Take any sentence:

How would you say that sentence to

your mother

your boss

someone interviewing you for a job

your best friend

your grandmother

a politician

your father

your professor

How would those people speak to you?

 

 

Remember prosody

Intonation is referred to as a prosodic feature of English. This is the collective term used to describe variations in pitch, loudness, tempo, and rhythm. These features are all involved in intonation, stress, and rhythm.

 

A literary technique, prosody is the study of meter, intonation, and rhythm of a poetic work. It is a phonetic term that uses meter, rhythm, tempo, pitch, and loudness in a speech for conveying information about the meanings and structure of an utterance. 

 

 

 

 

 

Vocabulary

syntax

articulation

pacing

gestalt

prosody

Increased vocabulary

penultimate

dogmatism

2-minute applications

Elementary music classroom

  • Student can tell a 2-minute story at the end of class, practicing good speaking habits

  • Use a vocabulary word in a sentence

Secondary ensemble/classroom

  • Assign an elevator speech to introduce a new piece, composer, time frame, etc.

  • Always require appropriate articulation when students interact with you (requests, excuses, etc.)

  • Students offer critique after a concert or contest

Individual/private instruction

Topics for discussion

  1. Should you require "standard English" speaking from your students?

Assignments

 

 

 

  

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