Content and Achievement Standards

Students will sing alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music
o Students will sing/perform their own creations
Listening, analyzing, and describing music.
o Students will identify specific musical concepts of the songs they
listen to.

Prerequisite Knowledge

Students must have knowledge of the solfege system.

Students must have knowledge of rhythm and meter.

Class Goals and Objectives

Students will lean to identify when there is an ostinato pattern present

in a piece.
Students will know what is required to create an ostinato pattern.

Materials

Computer
Perception charts
White board

Procedure
1.) Begin the lesson by connecting the song Clocks by Cold Play to the
students.
-Question: Have any of you ever experienced a time where you or a
friend has had to move away? What are some things that you did right
before your/they left?
-Response: Lets listen to a song that talk about spending time with
someone who is important to the singer.
2.) Students will have an initial listening to the intro, verse 1, and verse 2.
-Question: Did you hear anything about what we talked about, especially
in the second verse?

-Response: In the second verse the singer sings Come out upon my
seas, curse missed opportunities. I think that the singer is saying that
he wishes that he and his friend had spent more time together before
they parted ways.
3.) Students will now listen and analyze the song Clocks by Cold Play and fill
out a perception chart as a guide to their analysis.
-Procedural note: The instructor will move about the class to see who has
the correct answers while singing the piece and informing them when
they are on a specific number.
4.) Students will listen and analyze the song again to make sure that they
have gotten all of the answers.
5.) The instructor will now ask the students for the answers that they gave
on the perception chart.
-Procedural note: The instructor will make sure to ask for the answers
from the students who have the correct answers for each question asked
on the perception.
6.) The instructor will now discuss the importance of the piano ostinato part.
Question: I am going to play the piano part again and this time I would
like you to sing along with me on a neutral da syllable.
7.) Instructor will continue to discuss the piano ostinato pattern.
Question: This entire song seems to be built around this piano melody
doesnt it?
8.) The instructor will introduce the concept of ostinato.
a. This pattern is actually a special style that is used on all sorts of
music.
b. This pattern is known as an ostinato pattern
i. An ostinato is any continuously repeating melody or rhythm.
ii. What where all of the instruments that used this pattern
(piano drums and bass guitar.)
9.) The instructor will now compare this song with a piece of Classical music.
a. The instructor will play the first minute of Ravels Bolero
10.) The instructor will now have the students identify the ostinato pattern
in Bolero.
a. The instructor will have the students raise their hands when they
hear the pattern.
b. This is an example of an ostinato that is only rhythmic
11.) The instructor will now have the students create their own ostinati.

a. WE will start with a simple rhythmic pattern using only quarter

notes and eighth notes
b. After we have practiced the rhythmic pattern we will add solfege
syllables to each of the notes.
c. Students and instructor will perform the new pattern together.

Assessment

The instructor will have the students use the back of their papers as an
exit ticket.
The question they will be answering is what is the definition of
ostinato?

Future Lesson Plans

Students will learn about the 12 bar blues and compare this pattern to
ostinato patterns.

Lyrics to Clocks

The lights go out and I can't be saved

Tides that I tried to swim against
Have brought me down upon my knees
Oh I beg, I beg and plead, singing
Come out of things unsaid
Shoot an apple off my head and a
Trouble that can't be named
A tiger's waiting to be tamed, singing

You are
You are
Confusion never stops
Closing walls and ticking clocks
Gonna come back and take you home
I could not stop that you now know, singing
Come out upon my seas
Cursed missed opportunities
Am I a part of the cure?
Or am I part of the disease? Singing
You are, you are, you are
You are, you are, you are