The Charm of Encanto Original Song With Orff Arrangement for Percussion

This original song inspired by the Spanish word, encanto, is accompanied by an Orff arrangement, Latin rhythm and melodic elements, and is a great extension to the movie craze that has swept the nation.  

It's a perfect concert selection or classroom exploration of Latin-flavored ostinati!

This song is in Dm so B flats are needed for xylophones. However, you can challenge kids to play the part on recorders if you don't have B flats on your mallet instruments. There is so much flexibility with the ostinati, that you can also leave this part out.

This resource includes:

• a 45-slide PPT presentation that teaches the song with Kodaly and Orff specialized learning.
• embedded audio files to break down the learning and as performance aids
• PDF files of all the music notation with a full score and score reduction

The Breakdown

• The Song-a patter song-ish style uses a reduced Latin bass line with lyrics that are an acrostic of the word encanto and what it means to be a family.
• Orff-learning the ostinati involves using speech, body percussion, and then instruments.
• Kodaly-the song is la-based so practice with la-re, re-fa, and fa-mi. Rhythm-notes include quarters, eighths, sixteenths, syncopation, and a great example of tied notes. If you aren’t ready for some of those notes, those slides are easy to skip.
• Recorder-This optional part uses the notes low D, G, and A.

Performing Options

• Instrumentation is suggested but the parts are easily adapted to the instruments you have in your classroom.

Because of the many audio files, it is available in PPT only.

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• One Piece of Pie (aka One Bottle of Pop)
• Who Has Seen the Wind?

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Martin’s Dream of 1963: “Comprehensive and engaging resource. Easily adapted to fit needs of my classroom.”

Rhythm Writing Activities

The One-Beat Diner of Remarkable Rhythms-A super FUN activity where students create a menu (of one-beat food items) and then put items (rhythms) together for a special Take-Out selection.

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