Juniors:
Wonky Donkey by Craig Smith
This song won APRA Silver Scroll Award in 2008 for Best Children's Song .
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| Wonky Donkey composer, singer and author, Craig Smith |
Song writer and singer Craig Smith sings Wonky Donkey and plays guitar.
A cartoon animated version of Wonky Donkey.
Another animated puppet version
A dance group's version of the song, performing to a live audience (of children).
Love in a Fowl House by Garner Wayne
(see lyrics on our Songs We Sing tab)
Here's Crowded House doing a short version of Love in a Fowl House
Seniors
Paradise (with NZ sign language) by Waimarie Smith, a 15-year-old girl from KeriKeri (and Saint Peters School, Cambridge). This was the winning song in the 1913 Hook, Line and Sing-a-long song writing competition for NZ schools. (Click on the 'Show More' bar under the video to find the lyrics.) This is another You Tube of video with subtitles, but they are not very well synchronised.
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| Waimarie Smith (2013) |
Paradise - lyrics and chords Play along with the music, or accompany yourself.
Paradise - backing track for your own singing
Sheet music - if you would like to play it yourself
Paradise arrangement - the complete musical arrangement
Music has been composed by New Zealanders since the first inhabitants arrived. Here's a video showing the koauau (flute) being played.
This is the roria - another traditional Maori instrument.
Listen for the koauau and the roria in Maria Smith's Paradise recording.
This is a combination of traditional Maori music and instruments with modern instruments.
A very short piece by composer Douglas Lilburn called Poco Lento which means "a little slower" in Italian - and music vocabulary.
And this is what music we watched on television in 1967 - there was half an hour of pop music on tv once a week on a Saturday night - one black and white tv channel - that was all!
NZ Songs to Sing:
Life in Sunshine with subtitles - Jamie McDell
Life in Sunshine [Official]
Walking on Water with subtitles - Benny Tipene
Here's the NZ Music Commission's 2016 calendar of a NZ song a day to check out, and a fact sheet about all the songs, composers and performers included.
Some NZ Music Month picks for you to watch for homework (Mostly from NZ Herald fetaure):
May 2: Dominion Road by the Mutton Birds (1992)
May 3: I see Red by Split Enz (2006 Live version - spot the differences.)
And - because it's May the Fourth - Happy Star Wars Day
Vocabulary for this week:
imperial - is an adjective from the word empire; it means relating to an empire, for example, "The Imperial March" from Star Wars is the march of Dath Vader of the Galactic Empire.
empire - an empire is a group of nations ruled over by an emperor or ruler. The British Commonwealth was once called the British Empire and was ruled over by Queen Victoria and her descendants.
wonky - means not working properly or damaged in some way
honky tonky - is an adjective describing a style of country music from the southern and south west of USA. It involves very rhythmic piano music - originally played in bars or hotels on old pianos which were damaged or badly tuned.
lanky- means tall and thin (or long and thin if it's describing hair)
cranky - is slang to describe someone who is bad-tempered or in a bad mood
hanky panky - is slang for mischief
spunky - is slang for good-looking
literally - means exactly what each word means; for example, "take a stand" means to pick up the music stand and walk away with it.
metaphorically - means not literally; sometimes a saying or a word has a different meaning, which may not make sense unless the idea behind it is understood; for example, to "take a stand" metaphorically means to share a strong opinion about something that you believe in - or believe is right (or wrong.)
A new feature of each blog - a totally random music-related video just for the fun of it. Check out this Irish-dancing parrot.
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