Folk Music Instruments
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Folk Music Video
Vocab!
100

a stringed instrument of the guitar family, with a round open-backed soundbox of parchment stretched over a metal hoop.

Banjo

100

1st & 2nd Grade

This Land is Your Land +400 

100

usually tells stories of hardships or struggles

Folk Music

100

the words to a song

Lyrics

200

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

200

3rd & 4th Grade

She'll Be Comin Round the Mountain+300

200

Name the three major Folk Music instruments 

Banjo, Guitar, and Harmonica

200

a regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound

Rhythm

300

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

300

5th & 6th Grade 

John Henry+200

300

Folk Music is influenced by which two races?

African American and Irish

300

the highness or lowness of a sound

Pitch

400

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

400

Bonus ?: 

What Holiday did we celebrate this week at Champions?

Lunar New Year

400

Father of American Folk music who is mostly famous for the guitar and the song, "This Land is Your Land"

Woody Guthrie

400

multiple instruments or voices making different notes at the same time

Harmony

500

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 

500

Bonus ?: 

What is the next Champions curriculum unit?

Solar System

500

What era did Folk Music come from?

The Great Depression

500

a musical style characterized by slow, shuffling rhythms and lyrics that depict sad stories 

Blues