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Dear Reader,

First, I want to thank you for purchasing this eBook. It has been adream of mine for a long time to write and share my own visions and help those who teach and homeschool their own children.

Second, I want to welcome you to In All You Do. I don't take my little corner of the web lightly and I am so grateful for each and every reader who visits my site.

This series of musical studies have been on my heart and in my head for a while, but only recently came to fruition with the first being my Resurrection study earlier this year. I hope this will be the first of several in aseries that will release throughout the year in 2016.

This unit is not meant to fulfill any credit, but could be used as part of a Music Appreciation course or as a stand alone unit. In this unit you will find a brief history of each song, a listening guide for that song with a variety of styles to listen and compare as well as a Venn Diagram. Feel free to print as many of those diagrams as you need to compare and contrast the different styles for each song. I have also included some generalnotebooking pages for students to use when listening and/or doing research on a song. There are several notebooking pages to record information on the composers of the pieces, should you choose to do so with older students. Lastly, you will find blank notebooking pages that can be used in a variety ofways.

Again, I want to thank you for your purchase. Please feel free toemail me if you have ideas of something you would like to see in the future.

Blessings

History of "Star-Spangled Banner"

If you live in the United States, you are well familiar with this song. However, you might not be familiar with the history of how it was penned. On a rainy September 13, 1814, British warships sent a barrage of shells and rockets onto Fort McHenry on Baltimore Harbor, which guarded Baltimore, Maryland continued for 25 hours. Francis Scott Key was there to witness this attack and into the night as the sky went to complete darkness, all that he could see wasthe red glow that lit the night sky. He was certain the British were going to win, so when the smoke was clearing inthe “dawn's early light” on the morning of September 14, hesaw the American flag waving over Fort McHenr – not theBritish Union Jack flag. He immediately began to put his thoughts on to paper and set his words to a popular English tune. His brother-in-law, commander of a militia at Fort McHenry, read the work and had it distributed under the title “Defense of Fort McHenry.” The Baltimore Patriot newspaper soon printed the poem and within week's Key's poem, now called “The Star-Spangled Banner,” appeared in print across the country, immortalizing his words and forever naming the flag.

Listening Exercise:

There are several variations of this piece. Listen to all of them separately and have them record what they hear in each piece. Do not tell them what they are going to hear.

Allow them to listen and decide what they hear - instruments, rhythm, voices, etc. Then, listen to them back to back and use the Venn Diagram to compare and contrast what you hear. Click on the links below to hear the different versions.

I recommend listening to the pieces without the video (at first). Videos can be distracting, so just allow them to listenand soak up the music. Some of these videos are amateurs, but they show different styles and rhythms that I felt was important to compare and contrast.

Musicplay Digital Resources

Lady Gaga (Super Bowl 50)

Whitney Houston (Super Bowl 25)

Carrie Underwood (2006 Baseball All Star Game)

US National Anthem by the Academy Choirs

Gaither Vocal Band (a cappella)

Mariah Carey

History of “My Country 'Tis of Thee"

Also known as “America” this is an American patriotic song, written by Samuel Francis Smith in 1831, when he was a student at the Andover Theological Seminary in Andover, Massachusetts.His friend, Lowell Mason asked him to translatethe lyrics in some German school songbooks or to write new lyrics. A melody in Muzio Cleminti's Symphony No. 3, caught his attention,but rather than translating the lyrics, Smith wrote his own in just 30 minutes. The melody is that of the national anthem of the United Kingdom, “God Save the Queen,” arranged by Thomas Arne. This song served as the national anthem until the adoption of “The Star-Spangled Banner” in 1931.

Listening Exercise:

There are several variations of this piece. Listen to all of them separately and have them record what they hear in each piece. Do not tell them what they are going to hear.

Allow them to listen and decide what they hear - instruments, rhythm, voices, etc. Then, listen to them back to back and use the Venn Diagram to compare and contrast what you hear. Click on the links below to hear the different versions.

I recommend listening to the pieces without the video (at first). Videos can be distracting, so just allow them to listenand soak up the music. Some of these videos are amateurs, but they show different styles and rhythms that I felt was important to compare and contrast.

Kelly Clarkson (2013 Inauguration)

Washington National Cathedral Choir

The Gaither's

Mormon Tabernacle Choir

Piano Instrumental

Josh Groban & Heather Headley

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