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Chumbara Music Vocabulary Activity

Submitted by Sue Michiels, California

Idea posted 2006-07-17

I did Chumbara with music words with my choruses, such as symphony, melody, harmony, treble clef, dynamics, descant part, vivace, allegro, etc.

I gave them some sentences describing the word to use, and they had to pick the word off of the board. I used a Chinese gong any time the answer was correct and a Remo thundertube when the answer given was incorrect. Then, of course, we sang the word and discussed on which syllable the stress should really be placed.

You could add in some composers such as J.S. Bach, Humperdinck, Vivaldi, Pachelbel, Dvorak, Borodin, Mussorgsky - oh the mind boggles!