Unit 4 – Lesson 2: Music from different lands: Asia

Music All
Around Us
Unit 4 – Lesson 2:
Music from different lands: Asia
Musical Elements:
Beat, rhythm, form
JAPAN
Objective:
Students experience
songs and music
from Japan and
Indonesia through
listening, gameplaying, singing,
and composing.
Here is a Japanese hand-game song.
You may know the game as Rock, Scissors, Paper.
Jan-Ken-Pon
Trad. Arranged by Rob Fairbairn, Mark Leehy & Kevin O’Mara
 44     
     
            

Activities:
Listening,
singing, creating
(composing rhyming
lyrics)
Useful vocab:
Beat, rhythm, Japan,
guu – rock,
choki – scissors,
paa – paper,
Indonesia, shell
song, pantun,
rhyme, rhyming
scheme
You will need:
CD 4; Chart No. 25;
Chart No. 26
-
Jan
ken
-
pon

Jan
yo,

-
ken
-
pon
yo,

Guu,
Jan

-
ken
pon.

cho
-
ki paa.
Jan
-
ken
-
pon!
Students learn the song.
In pairs, facing each other, they shake a fist in time with the chant.
On the last beat, they make a shape: rock (guu), scissors (choki) or paper (paa).
Rock breaks scissors: rock wins
Scissors cut paper: scissors wins
Paper covers rock: paper wins
Chart No. 25
JAPAN
INDONESIA
Jan-Ken-Pon championship
Pairs play off.
Winners to the front of the room; pair off.
All sing as pairs play off.
Winners pair off … until there is a grand winner.
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INDONESIA
Burung Kakaktua
Traditional Indonesian. New words by Rob Fairbairn
 43      
       
    
   
  
 
     
Verse
C
G


Bu
- rung
ka
-
kak
-
tu
-
a,
Hing gap
di
jen
G
-
dah
tu
-
Gi - gi - nya ting
a,
Dm
dung,
trek - dung la la
la.
dung,
trek - dung,
trek - dung la
gal
trek - dung,
D7
la
du
G7
Trek- dung,
F
-
la.
G7
Bu
- rung
-
C

nek su
    
  
   
   
C
de
-
Chart No. 26
Ne -
la.
C
Chorus

-
Trek- dung,
a.
trek
C
trek - dung la la
la.
Trek
C

ka
-
kak
-
tu
-
a.
NOTE: For full lyrics – see Chart No. 26.
This is a shell song in Pantun form. People make up their own, funny verses following
the tune and the rhyming scheme (the last syllable of each line).
In this version, the verse is sung about a grandmother.
Burung ka-kak-tua
Cockatoo bird
Hinggap di jen-de-la
Is sitting in the window
Nenek sudah tua
Grandma is old
Gigi-nya tinggal dua
She only has two teeth
The rest of the verses are nonsense rhymes about some of the many islands which make up
Indonesia. Here are the names of more Indonesian islands:
BANGKA, AMBON, LOMBOK, FLORES, ALOR, WETAR, OBI, MISOOL, CERAM
Form
Form and structure
Using the rhyming scheme of Burung Kakaktua students create funny pantuns about the
different islands. These can be performed to the CD track Burung Kakaktua – backing.
Rhyming scheme:
Island name
On the island of Java
Rhyming line
Where the babies play guitar
Rhyming line
And the cows eat caviar
Island name
On the island of Java
Thinkabout Talkabout: Time signatures
One of our songs today was in threes.
The other was in fours.
Which was which?
Burung Kakaktua is in threes.
Jan-Ken-Pon is in fours.
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Music Room Book 4 Chart No. 26
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