Week 11: Memorial Day
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Week 11
For this week's assignment, as we reflect on and honor Memorial Day, I would like you to take some time to listen to the following musical excerpts and then respond to your choice of one of the writing prompts provided. This week's lesson combines music with history, rememberance, and patriotism.
For this week's assignment, as we reflect on and honor Memorial Day, I would like you to take some time to listen to the following musical excerpts and then respond to your choice of one of the writing prompts provided. This week's lesson combines music with history, rememberance, and patriotism.
The Music (Genre Challenge):
This week's genre is: Patriotic Music!
American Patriotic Music is a part of the culture and history of the United States since its founding in the 18th century and has served to encourage feelings of honor for the country's forefathers and for national unity. These songs include hymns, military themes, national songs, and music from stage and screen, as well as songs adapted from poems.
All of the music you will find on my website this week would fall under the category of Patriotic Music. Some other pieces of music that are not on my page but also fall under this category are:
Yankee doodle Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy You’re A Grand Old Flag When Johnny Comes Marching Home
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This week's genre is: Patriotic Music!
American Patriotic Music is a part of the culture and history of the United States since its founding in the 18th century and has served to encourage feelings of honor for the country's forefathers and for national unity. These songs include hymns, military themes, national songs, and music from stage and screen, as well as songs adapted from poems.
All of the music you will find on my website this week would fall under the category of Patriotic Music. Some other pieces of music that are not on my page but also fall under this category are:
Yankee doodle Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy You’re A Grand Old Flag When Johnny Comes Marching Home
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Typically, for our Memorial Day Ceremony, each grade level performs one of the Military Branch songs and fourth grade performs a song on their recorders. As we are not able to be together this year, I have included videos of each of the Military Branch songs below. The top video is performed by that branch of the military's official band, and the bottom video includes the lyrics.
Please take a few minutes to listen to each of the Military Branch Songs below. I encourage you to listen ALL FIVE Branch songs before moving on to the writing prompt.
Please take a few minutes to listen to each of the Military Branch Songs below. I encourage you to listen ALL FIVE Branch songs before moving on to the writing prompt.
1st Grade - The Army Goes Rolling Along
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2nd Grade - The Marine's Hymn
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3rd Grade - Anchors Aweigh
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5th Grade - Wild Blue Yonder
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6th Grade - Semper Paratus
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4th Grade - My Country 'Tis of Thee on recorders As we weren't able to learn it together, I have put together the following performance on my clarinet! |
Lastly, The President's Own Band performing an Armed Forces Medley |
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The Assignment:
Now that you have listened to the above songs celebrating and honoring each Branch of our Military, I want you to CHOOSE ONE of the following prompts to finish for me on the Task Completion Survey.
Grades R-3:
1. A soldier is a hero because…. 2. I am thankful for United States Soldiers because… 3. I honor Memorial Day by…. |
Grades 4 -6
1. The United States of America is a great country because… 2. The military song I liked the best was __________________ BECAUSE… 3. I honor Memorial Day by… |
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The History:
One of the most popular musical tunes, easily recognizable around the world, is the 24 note melody of "Taps." Below is a brief history of Taps- its origins, history, and naming. Before you conclude your music lesson for this week, please take a moment to quietly listen to your schoolmates Quinn Urban and Nathan Vermette as they perform Taps.
One of the most popular musical tunes, easily recognizable around the world, is the 24 note melody of "Taps." Below is a brief history of Taps- its origins, history, and naming. Before you conclude your music lesson for this week, please take a moment to quietly listen to your schoolmates Quinn Urban and Nathan Vermette as they perform Taps.
AUG 22, 2018
How did “Taps” originate? By: ELIZABETH NIX The origins of “Taps,” the distinctive bugle melody played at U.S. military funerals and memorials and as a lights-out signal to soldiers at night, date back to the American Civil War. In July 1862, U.S. General Daniel Butterfield and his brigade were camped at Harrison’s Landing, Virginia, recuperating after the Seven Days Battles near Richmond. Dissatisfied with the standard bugle call employed by the Army to indicate to troops it was time to go to sleep, and thinking the call should sound more melodious, Butterfield reworked an existing bugle call used to signal the end of the day. After he had his brigade bugler, Private Oliver Wilcox Norton, play it for the men, buglers from other units became interested in the 24-note tune and it quickly spread throughout the Army, and even caught on with the Confederates. Not long after Butterfield created “Taps,” it was played for the first time at a military funeral, for a Union cannoneer killed in action. The man’s commanding officer, Captain John Tidball, decided the bugle call would be safer than the traditional firing of three rifle volleys over the soldier’s grave, a move which couldn’t been confused by the nearby enemy as an attack. |
DEC 31, 2016 Why the Name “Taps”?
By: TAPSBUGLER Taps is the name of the final call of the evening in the United States military. One explanation is that Taps is derived from the Dutch word Tap-toe or Tattoo. The call of Tattoo was used in order to assemble soldiers for the last roll call of the day. Tattoo may have originated during the Thirty Years War (1618-1648) or during the wars of King William III during the 1690s. The word tattoo in this usage is derived from the Dutch tap (tap or faucet) and toe (to cut off). When it was time to end the day and return to the post, the provost or Officer of the Day, accompanied by a sergeant and drummer, would go through the town beating out the signal. As far as military regulations went, there was a prescribed roll call to be taken at “Taptoe time” to ensure that all the troops had returned to their lodging. It is possible that the word Tattoo became Taps. Tattoo was also called Tap-toe and as is true with slang terms in the military, it was shortened to Taps. The other, and more likely, explanation is that the name Taps was borrowed from a drummer’s beat. The beating of Tattoo by the drum corps would be followed by the Drummer of the Guard beating three distinct drum taps at four count intervals for the military evolution Extinguish Lights. During the American Civil War, Extinguish Lights was the bugle call used as the final call of the day and as the name implies, it was a signal to extinguish all fires and lights. Following the call, three single drum strokes were beat at four-count intervals. This was known as the “Drum Taps” or in common usage of soldiers “The Taps”or “Taps.” There are many references to the term “Taps” before the war and during the conflict, before the bugle call we are all familiar with came into existence. So the drum beat that followed Extinguish Lights came to be called “Taps” by the common soldiers and when the new bugle call was created in July 1862 to replace the more formal sounding Extinguish Lights, (the one Butterfield disliked), the bugle call also came to be known as “Taps.” |
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***********Below you will hear Taps played by two NBCS graduating 6th graders.**********
Nathan Vermette Quinn Urban
***********Below you will hear Taps played by two NBCS graduating 6th graders.**********
Nathan Vermette Quinn Urban
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