Music-Play Workshop – Robert Markowitz (Handout 3)
Creative
Play Dynamics Within A Song
Five Examples:
Simple:
Go To Sleep – Rhythmic
Movement; Daily-life Connection; Humor; Exaggerated Contrast; Built-in Time-out;
Rebellion.
Multiple Movement:
Wake up Mama – Multiple
Rhythmic Movements; Daily-life Connection; Humor; Built-in Time-out; Rebellion.
Character Play:
Ants Go Marching / I am The Spider –
Rhythmic Movement; Confrontation; Flight; Exaggerated Contrast;
Trickster; Built-in Time-out.
Singing Character Play:
Parakeet Watchout! -
Chanting; Confrontation;
Flight; Trickster; Rebellion.
Improvisational Singing
Character Play: I am a Dog
– Children’s Improvisation; Singing; Rhythmic
Movement; Confrontation; Flight; Daily-life Connection.
To read Handout
4 of Music and
Movement Workshop, click here.