Folk Music Instruments
a stringed instrument of the guitar family, with a round open-backed soundbox of parchment stretched over a metal hoop.
Banjo
1st & 2nd Grade
This Land is Your Land +400
usually tells stories of hardships or struggles
Folk Music
the words to a song
Lyrics
a stringed musical instrument, with a fretted fingerboard, typically incurved sides, and six or twelve strings, played by plucking or strumming with the fingers or a plectrum.
Guitar
3rd & 4th Grade
She'll Be Comin Round the Mountain+300
Name the three major Folk Music instruments
Banjo, Guitar, and Harmonica
a regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound
Rhythm
a wind instrument made from a tube with holes that are stopped by the fingers or keys, held vertically or horizontally so that the player's breath strikes a narrow edge.
Flute
5th & 6th Grade
John Henry+200
Folk Music is influenced by which two races?
African American and Irish
the highness or lowness of a sound
Pitch
a large keyboard musical instrument with a wooden case enclosing a soundboard and metal strings, which are struck by hammers when the keys are depressed.
Piano
Bonus ?:
What Holiday did we celebrate this week at Champions?
Lunar New Year
Father of American Folk music who is mostly famous for the guitar and the song, "This Land is Your Land"
Woody Guthrie
multiple instruments or voices making different notes at the same time
Harmony
a small rectangular wind instrument with a row of metal reeds along its length, held against the lips and moved from side to side to produce different notes by blowing or sucking.
Harmonica
Bonus ?:
What is the next Champions curriculum unit?
Solar System
What era did Folk Music come from?
The Great Depression
a musical style characterized by slow, shuffling rhythms and lyrics that depict sad stories
Blues