2018, Term 2, Weeks 5: New Zealand Music Month - with Baked Beans!

Check out this video to hear Beethoven's Piano Sonata in C Sharp Minor (known as Moonlight Sonata) (FF to 24 seconds in)  played with audible passion - and see how a group of Korean  street dancers have interpreted his music  - also passionately - for a dancing competition recently. 
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This is the last week of New Zealand Music month, and we will look at one of our favourite New Zealand songs and videos.

Here's a New Zealand Music quiz. This will be too tricky for most of you - but you will definitely be able to answer some, based on the work we have covered this term. 

This week's video clip and song is called Baked Beans by Mother Goose.

                                   

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Mother Goose were a rock and roll band, formed in 1975 in Dunedin,  who were very successful in the late 1970s, particularly in Australia. They still hold attendance records for some of their gigs in NZ and Australia. Although they played a wide range of music, they are most well known for their video for their novelty 1977 single 'Baked Beans'. It was one of the most played clips in Australia in the 1970s.  Part of the band's identity was to dress up in outrageous costumes - including a sailor, a pixie, a ballerina, a baby and a bumble bee.   The "Baked Beans" video references Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody and includes the most well known lines of the Halleluiah Chorus  from Handel's Messiah from 1741. 

                                          
And,just for the fun of it, a silly song about baked beans. 

                                

And a bit more silliness - This is an ad  for Heinz baked beans - taking advantage of the cup song example.   And another version of the same ad with a girl singing all parts. 

Try it yourself - Here's how to master the movements of the can song. 

Rhythm tracks: 
Here's an awesome You Tube site to practise your sight reading of rhythm patterns and notation with increasing difficulty over ten levels. 

And this is a great way to test of you can keep the rhythm when the music stops. Try to keep the pulse (beat) in the silences and see if you are still in time when the music comes back. 
                                       Dances: 
Juniors
Everywhere Stars - creative movement 
I like to Move It, Move It   (Here's the original version from the movie - can you see any similarities?) 
Can't Stop the Feeling
Twist - excellent to help learn Left and Right (while mirroring the video) 
Funky Robot

Choose any from above or below

Seniors (Choose from):
Kidz Bop - Watch Me  (A good way to practise some new dance moves) 
Rock around the Clock - note that you will need to use the opposite hands to his instructions if you want to mirror the actions, i.e., when he says move to the left - you move to the right. 
Limbo - you may want a partner for this 
Bailar (Just Dance)
Kung Fu Fighting 

Songs: 
NZ Sign Language ABC song
Old MacDonald had a Farm - in New Zealand Sign Language
Walking on Water - Ben Tipene
Make you Mine - Ben Tipene