# Teaching Plan # Introduction "The Swan" is the thirteenth song in the suite "Carnival of the Animals" written by the French composer Saint-Sa?ns. It is also the most widely circulated song in the suite and is often played alone. It has even become the author's representative work. This piece is an elegant and gentle ditty in the suite, which is in sharp contrast to the other pieces. The piano accompaniment in the piece represents the rippling waves of the clear lake water, while the beautiful and charming melody of the cello describes It shows the noble and elegant figure of the swan, as well as the scene when it floats peacefully and freely. Kaowang has prepared the following content for your reference!

Part 1

Teaching objectives:

1. Inspire students to apply the music knowledge they have learned (such as; melody, speed, intensity, timbre, etc.) to feel the image and artistic conception of the music.

2. Inspire students to develop rich imaginations by appreciating the cello solo - "Swan". Encourage students to create their own shapes

Use body language combined with music to express the swan.

Teaching preparation:

Piano, TV, VCD player, tape recorder, tape, cards (4 pieces)

Important and difficult points in teaching:

< p> Create body language to express feelings about music and express the artistic conception of music.

Teaching process:

1. Teachers and students dance "Hello Song" to the same rhythm [play the tape]

"Happy Music 40 Minutes" once a week "Meet you all again. Now please bring your ears and go with me!

2. Listen to the violin solo "Little Bee" [Play CD]

Today we still go to the "Animal Paradise" to play. In the last class, we admired a small insect. Please don’t name it yet.

Let the music tell you!

After listening, ask questions: 1. What is the name of this piece of music? What does it show?

2. What instrument is it played on?

3. New Lesson Teaching

(1) After leaving the lovely "Bee Palace", how about we go greet the Swan Princess now? Before visiting her,

Could you please tell me what your impression of a swan looks like? What are her characteristics? (Language, body)

(2) Listening to "Swan" for the first time [playing VCD]

Just now you used your own language and body to express the swan, let us do it next Listen to how the music performs

Let’s listen!

(3) Tell me about your feelings when you first heard it.

Could you please tell me about your feelings about the piece "Swan"?

(4) Talk about the characteristics of cello tone and briefly introduce the composer.

On the left side of the TV screen is a noble and elegant swan, and on the right side is the cello, the main instrument of this piece of music.

It is a member of the bowed string instrument family among Western musical instruments and the elder brother of the violin. Please tell us about the timbre characteristics of the cello compared with the violin playing "Little Bee"

The young gentleman in the middle is the author of "Swan" - the French composer Saint-Sa?ns. He created many works throughout his life, among which the orchestral "Carnival of the Animals" is the most famous. He used 12 different pieces of music to represent 12 different animals. Among them, "Swan" is the most widely circulated.

(5) Repeat listening

We have just learned that "Swan" is played by the cello. So do you remember the sounds of any other instruments besides the cello?

If the cello represents the swan, what does the piano represent? Please let us listen carefully again. In addition to listening carefully to the music played by the cello, we must also pay attention to the accompaniment of the piano.

(6) Discuss, answer, and analyze musical elements.

Melody line, intensity, speed, emotion

4. Watch the ballet "The Death of the Swan" [Play VCD]

This music also deeply moved me A Russian ballet dancer created a ballet "Death of the Swan" for this music. Please take a look at how she used dance to express the swan?

5. Students create dance styles based on the music of "Swan". [Play VCD]

1. Please tell us about some of your favorite dance styles that represent swans.

2. Combine your imagination and pose in groups with music.

6. Appreciate the ballet "The Four Little Swans". [Play VCD]

Watch the dance, talk about the differences between the various musical elements in the music "Swan", and briefly talk about the performance of this music.

7. Introduction to watching Saint-Sa?ns and the orchestral "Carnival of the Animals"

8. Summary of the class, combined with music to "fly" out of the classroom.

Chapter 2

Teaching objectives:

1. By appreciating "Swan", improve students' level of music appreciation, cultivate students' sensibility, imagination and expressiveness.

2. Inspire students to use the basic elements of music and feel the content and artistic conception of the music.

3. Understand the cello and grasp its timbre characteristics.

Key points in teaching:

Appreciate "Swan", cultivate students' sensitivity and imagination, and use musical elements to feel the content and artistic conception of the music.

Teaching methods:

Appreciation method, discussion method, and emotional experience method.

Textbook analysis:

"The Swan" is the thirteenth song in the suite "Carnival of the Animals" written by the French composer Saint-Sa?ns, and it is also the most widely circulated song in the suite. , often played alone, and even became the author's representative work. This piece is an elegant and gentle ditty in the suite, which is in sharp contrast to the other pieces. The piano accompaniment in the piece represents the rippling microwaves of the clear lake water, and the cello is graceful. The charming melody describes the noble and elegant figure of the swan, as well as the peaceful and comfortable floating scene. The whole song begins with a rippling prelude played by piano, and then the cello sings an elegant melody in 6/4 time, sometimes ascending and sometimes descending, with a very beautiful mood. The piano accompaniment blends seamlessly with the cello melody, and the final phrase gradually disappears in the pianissimo.

Teaching process:

1. Introduction

Looking at the introduction of swan pictures, the teacher asked: What words would the students use to describe the swans?

2. New course teaching

1. Appreciate the song "Four Little Swans" in "Swan Lake".

Thinking Question 1: What are the characteristics of the melody of "Four Little Swans" and what content does it express?

(The music is lively and lively, the rhythm is clean and neat, and it depicts the scene of little swans playing by the lake. It is simple, touching and idyllic and poetic.)

Thinking question 2 : What is the musical emotion expressed in "Four Little Swans"?

(Joyful, lively and lively.)

2. Different composers, due to different creative backgrounds, different inner worlds, different aesthetic experiences, different expression methods, etc., When depicting the same things, there will be different splendor and charm.

Please enjoy Saint-Sa?ns' "The Swan", feel the emotion of the music, and think about the question: What kind of emotion does "The Swan" express? What are the characteristics of the melody?

(Sad mood, and the melody is relatively long and lyrical, sometimes strong and sometimes weak, full of singing.)

Ask students to use "lines" to draw the melody trend of "Swan" .

3. Introduce the author-Saint-Sa?ns.

Saint-Sa?ns loved music since he was a child and was extremely sensitive to sounds. Favoring to listen to the ticking of clocks and the "singing" of teapots when water boils, he began composing music at the age of five and performed on stage as a pianist at the age of eleven. In 1848, he entered the Paris Conservatoire to study. He began working as a church organist in 1853, and spent four years teaching piano at the Niedermayer Music School. In 1877, he resigned from the church and devoted himself to composing music, and often performed abroad as a pianist and conductor. The number of his works exceeds 170. The outstanding ones include the opera "Sanson and Dalila", "Symphony No. 3", symphonic poem "Dance of the Skeletons", "Piano Concerto Nos. 2, 4 and 5", "Symphony No. 3" Violin Concerto", "Cello Concerto" and "Introduction and Rondo Caprice" for violin and orchestra, etc.

4. Introduce the structure and timbre characteristics of the cello.

The cello’s tone is melodious, the strings’ tone is affectionate, and the melody is moving. Especially human and natural, it can better reflect people's emotions.

The four strings of the cello have four characteristics. The first string, the a string, has a gorgeous pronunciation and is full of singing; the second string, the d string, has a hazy sound; the third and fourth strings, the G string and the C string, have a deep and loud sound.

Therefore, the cello is an indispensable tenor and bass instrument in modern orchestras.

5. Listen to "Swan" again.

Thinking: What are the characteristics and functions of the piano accompaniment?

(The continuous arpeggiated accompaniment of the left hand and the continuous sixteenth notes of the right hand are sometimes strong and sometimes weak, making the music continue to move forward and full of fluidity; it depicts a picture of a swan serene in the water. )

6. Compare "Four Little Swans" and "Swan" in terms of melody, speed, intensity, etc.

"Four Little Swans" "Swan"

Melody: cheerful and lyrical

Speed: slightly faster and slower

Strength: strong or weak< /p>

Emotions: cheerful, lively, melancholy and sad

Content: Lively and lovely little swans, noble and elegant swans

3. Work expansion:

Appreciation Dance——"Death of the Swan"

1. What is the content of the dance "Death of the Swan"?

(Under the beautiful melody, there is a melancholy feeling hidden. We saw a beautiful swan fluttering its wings and struggling. It spread its wings again and again, trying to fly into the vast sky, although it failed. Countless times, but it never gave up... the scene of finally dying after hundreds of struggles)

2. What philosophy of life does it tell people?

(Never give up, never give up on your dreams, and work hard to realize them until the end of your life.)

IV. Summary of this lesson

In class, we appreciated "Four Little Swans" and "Swans". We appreciated different forms of swans from different music, and learned to use the basic factors of music to analyze and understand music, so as to feel what the music wants to express.

Chapter 3: Swan

Teaching objectives:

By appreciating the cello solo - "Swan", students can be inspired to develop rich imaginations and encourage students to create their own The body language is combined with music to express the swan and experience the quiet and beautiful artistic conception.

Key and difficult points in teaching:

Create body language to express feelings about music and express the artistic conception of music.

Teaching preparation:

TV, VCD machine, tapes, pictures, watercolor pens, headwear, etc.

Teaching process:

1. Teachers and students move to the rhythm of each other and say hello to each other!

2. Appreciate "The Swan" and ask questions

Teacher: What are the animals that can fly in the sky and swim in the water? What do you think of swans? (Student answer)

Next, let’s go to a beautiful place to enjoy swans!

(1) When you first listen to the music, talk about your feelings.

Teacher: Children, please close your eyes and take advantage of the music. Let us imagine. What kind of picture do you see?

(Play the music, listen quietly, and ask the children to talk about it.)

Teacher: (Show the picture) Look at what a beautiful place it is! I saw two noble swans swimming in the distance.

(2) Listen to the music again and understand the work.

1. Listen and debate the instruments used in the music.

Teacher: Let us enjoy it again and listen to what instrument is used to play that elegant melody? What does it show?

(Play the music, listen carefully, and ask students to talk about it.) (Show a picture of the cello)

2. Practice: Test students’ understanding of the music. (Conducted in small groups)

Teacher: Now there is a question card on the table for each group. Ask the children to discuss it quietly and then complete it. (Teacher tour guidance)

(Rewards are given to outstanding groups)

3. Watch "Saint-Sa?ns - Carnival of Animals", introduced by the author.

Teacher: Do you know who wrote this piece? Then let’s take a look together! (Play VCD)

(Students answer together after watching)

4. Watch "Swan Lake" and experience ballet.

Teacher: There are many ballet dancers who, after hearing this piece of music, dance gracefully as if they were the elegant and noble swans. Let’s enjoy a section together! (Play VCD)

5. Perform music and dance gracefully.

Teacher: After enjoying the ballet dancer’s performance, let’s do a piece too!

1. Play the music "Swan" and teachers and students dance.

2. Invite a few better students to perform. (Put on a skirt and a headdress)

6. Class summary.

Teacher: You must have heard the story of "The Ugly Duckling"! I believe that one day, our group of ugly ducklings will turn into beautiful swans. Let us fly out of the classroom to the music! goodbye!