calling all primary teachers (or anyone who kows about musical elements!!!)

[Nixz]

Purleeease help me!!!
I have just managed to finish my Music assignment for my degree but there is one part still outstanding. I need to give an example of a song (pop, classical anything on a cd)which i could use in a classroom to demonstrate different musical elements. For example i have used The lion sleeps tonight as an example of pitch - (all the humba ways and oooeee'ss!!!!)which was kindly donated by my 4 yr old dd! As for the rest, im lost! I have searched my cd's and dd's but cant seem to get to grips with any examples - could anyone help? It would be much appreciated!!

would ravels bolero demonstrate change of tempo?

Or am I completely the wrong track?

Forgot to say, its for use in a primary classroom and the elemnts which i have to find examples for are:
Pitch
Tempo
Duration
Timbre
Texture
Dynamics
Structure
Silence (erm no songs at all???)

Try Yorkiegirl. She's a primary teacher and music degree

Lots of CD's (and previously records) have short and long versions of the same song......for duration?

Ravels bolero?

Loveshack dies of at the end then starts again - could that be an example of silence

Haven't a clue what i'M TALKING ABOUT - CAN YOU TELL[GRIN] (sorry for the caps)

Thanks pixie fish x

Torville & dean music....Ravel's Bolero

Thanks Katymac - you know heaps more than i do!

Oh yeah - i remember - thanks

Whats Texture? explain it to me

timbre?

Is dynamics the movement? Like a song that sounds like the words (rollercoaster or I am sailing?)

Texture is lots if different layers eg - when we sing and do rounds, like londons burning and then after we have sung the first line, another groups starts - does that make sense? Sorry if it doesnt but ive been in the books all day, as well as everything lse!!!!!

timbre - basically being able to recognise an instrument or specific sound etc

Texture something like Orrinocco flow from enya
Or something by the 3 tenors? or Barcelona (Freddie mercury and montserrat Cabaya (sp))

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timbre would the the Peter and the Wolf thing (can't remember the composer - but each animal had a different instrument played that animals tune - eg peter was a XXX, wolf was a YYY, bird was a ZZZ etc - could it have benn prochociev (sp))

I think dynamics is just loud, quiet etc
duration the length of sounds or rhythm etc

Prokofiev

I did duration at 10:16....

Let me go...let me go I will not let you go

Don't know what it's called - but that could be dynamics?

Bohemian Rasphody..that's it

Fandabbydozie - Thats a great example! Thanks!

What have you got left to do?

structure - (silence, different sctions, contrast/repeats)