Cycle D: Popular Music: Folk Music

Year 3

❤️ Cycle D ❤️

Genre: Popular Music

Style: Folk Music

Composers:

Béla Bartók (Hungarian, influenced by Romanian Folk Music)

Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel (American, influenced by British/Irish folk music)

**Béla Bartók aged 18 in 1899 (1881 – 1945)**

Hungarian composer and pianist Béla Bartók was interested in the study of music with a focus on the culture of the people who made it.

As an adult, Bartok spent lots of time in Romania and became fascinated by the music of the local people. He noted down the rhythms and the instruments used, including violins and simple flutes. He used these ideas to compose his Romanian Folk Dances, Joc Cu Bâtă or ‘Stick Dance’ was the first.

Bartok: Romanian Folk Dances (first movement ‘Jocul cu bata’ – Stick Dance)

Simon & Garfunkel – The Sound of Silence (from The Concert in Central Park 1981)

Pentatonix – The Sound of Silence (2019)

❤️Other folk artists from (or influenced by music from) the British Isles❤️

Fairport Convention: ‘She Moves Through The Fair’ (1969)
Song written in 1909
Producer: Joe Boyd
Vocalist: Sandy Denny
Guitar: Richard Thompson
Bass Guitar: Ashley Hutchings
Guitar: Simon Nicol

Tir Eolas: ‘She Moves Through The Fair’ (2010)
Tir Eolas performing their own arrangement of She Moved Through The Fair (written in 1909)
Philippa Mercer (vocals, flute, whistle)
Ruairi Glasheen (percussion, drums, glock, vocals)
Laura Snowden (guitar, vocals)
Georgie Harris (viola, vocals)
Kristina Edin (bass, vocals)

Sandy Denny (vocalist from Fairport Convention) – ‘Late November’ – Live At The BBC (1971)

Joni Mitchell – ‘Big Yellow Taxi’ (1970)

Lesson Resources:

https://www.classroom200.org/lesson-plans/119