Thanksgiving Music Mp3 Free Download

[Eloisa Stawasz]

AsThanksgiving quickly approaches, it is time for all those turkey songs! I love the festive qualities of each holiday and it is so important to teach how music is incorporated in these traditions, though equally important is that I want to keep my kiddos on track. I try to still stay true to what concepts we are focusing on, while also having some fun! Here are some of my go-to Thanksgiving lesson ideas for the Elementary music classroom!

As I mentioned earlier, this song allows me to stay true to the concepts that my students are working on (Dotted half note), while still incorporating themes from the season. While it is great to celebrate the holidays, I have found that I get behind sometimes in teaching content when including all the fun holiday songs/activities. Not with this one! Fourth grade had some seasonal fun while practicing dotted half note with singing and having a blast playing the game!

I LOVE this song! My students quite enjoy learning this song, game, and especially the background stories that provide context and meaning to the whole lesson. From what I know about this song, it was inspired by a hunting custom. The Choctaw tribe is from Mississippi where they used to have dogs help them hunt raccoon and other animals in the swamp. Second, it was about children mimicking the behavior of raccoons chasing each other in a corn field. The first story can be read on the Kodly American Folk Song Collection. The second story was told in the video below during a social dance convention by the announcer. I am not sure which one is correct, but I find tremendous value in mentioning both stories!

But I would counter all of these arguments first with the idea that Christmas music brings joy to people; to monitor and control when people should or should not listen to Christmas music does not allow people to celebrate in a way unique and genuine to them.

You can use this activity with both younger and older grade levels (I created a slide show that uses the song to introduce quarter and eighth notes and teaches them a steady beat bordun accompaniment, but for the older ones they have a crossover bordun pattern). This is a fun and easy thanksgiving music activity for sure!

I start by reading the story Ten Fat Turkeys by Tony Johnston to my students, adding the song The Turkey Is A Funny Bird to the end of every page. Once my students know the song, we play the game:

This is another Thanksgiving music activity my students love so much! I actually got this song and book pairing from Lindsay Jervis over at Kodaly Corner, and I just loved the introduction of Native American music and lullabies for the little ones, it has been a hit every year!

This is one of my favorite thanksgiving music lessons, as the song is just so silly!

This is an activity I use primarily with fourth and fifth grade, as I use it to focus on different tempos such as presto, largo, etc.

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To clarify, I understand that other countries do not celebrate Thanksgiving, so I will try to exclude them from the slander. I have also spoken with people who say Christmas music can be for any time of the year, so I will exclude them from the conversation because they are unwell.

Obviously, Christmas music brings great joy to my life. It gives a sense of nostalgia that very few songs could ever do. I just think the timing of Christmas music emphasizes two big problems in our society.

This issue can further be seen throughout many holidays. For example, Halloween is advertised as early as August now, yet I would never want the joys of Halloween to start before going back to school. Christmas, for some reason, does not get this same treatment.

Starting on time still gives around five weeks and allows you to cherish every single day among those. This starts to lead into the next problem, which is burnout and having too much of a good thing.

When I hear the music, I want to see the trees and the lights, I want to smell the gingerbread cookies and I want to touch the ornaments as they are hung up. Instead, the music would be greeted with the smell of dry turkey and the uninspired sights of the orange and brown decorations.

I believe that Christmas music is part of the season of festivities and that playing it too early is a disservice to December as a whole. My stance springs out of my love and respect for my favorite holiday of the year.

I love this time of year. As an immigrant to the U.S. in 1980, I was immediately attracted to the holiday around Thanksgiving. Growing up in Ireland, I loved all things Christmas. Its pace was slow. Life seemed to pause and yield to the time set aside for family and serendipitous gatherings in kitchens, with aunts and uncles and cousins, around songs and stories, and pubs, and church. These rituals were positive and reassuring; from childhood thru young adulthood, a centerpiece of each year.

Here in America, I soon realized that while there were many similarities, the fast pace and commercial stress seemed somehow always to rush us and tarnish intent. When I first realized that people here took ONLY Christmas Day itself off, and returned to work on St. Stephen's Day (The Feast of Stephen), I was devastated. In Ireland, December 26 was the day we went "singing the wren" a custom that dated to Pagan times, and so much fun. Virtually no one worked much between Christmas Eve and the day after New Years Day. But this was far from the case in my adopted country.

So, when I grew accustomed to Thanksgiving, that became the holiday I gravitated toward for family and friend gatherings like my Christmases of old. The joy of Thanksgiving Eve gatherings, the cooking together, the slowing pace, the chilly weather, the smells of turkey and stuffing, the determination of families to get Home no matter the distance or impediment. This was what Thanksgiving was and still is to me. In many ways, combining this sense of Thanksgiving with memories of Irish Christmases past, is what informs many of my artistic decisions around our yearly production of A Christmas Celtic Sojourn.

Over the years, I have grown this playlist to accompany many of those moments. It is not so much specifically based on Thanksgiving songs or tunes, tho there are some. It is not overtly religious, tho there are religious songs. It is not particularly trad or roots based, tho there are traditional songs and tunes. But there is jazz, choral singing, American songs from the Sacred Harp/Shape-note tradition, and Shenandoah and Paul Simon's "American Tune." There's a newly written waltz incorporating Thanksgiving melodies and a wistful, sad poem by Robert Louis Stevenson, set to music by Vaughan Williams.

The playlist is more of a compilation for my Thanksgiving mood. Something that can transfer me instantly to the Thanksgiving of my mind; wood fires, rum and hot cider, "the bird smell, the brandy, the pudding and the mince, curling up to my nostrils.*" Whole families walking together past our house in Newton, a suburb of Boston. And those evenings, slow, and shimmering with the faces of dear friends and family in the glow of Thanksgivings past remembered now, instantly, when I listen to this playlist.

During the last few months of the year, many people refer to this time as the holiday season. We celebrate the spookiness of Halloween, eat a feast at Thanksgiving, and rejoice with the season of giving with Christmas during December.

Not every store or radio station has started playing classic carols because maybe they noticed a lot of people are not quite ready to start listening to it 24/7. Though the music may not be blasting through the speakers, stores have started pricing unsold Halloween candy at ridiculously low prices and broke out the wintry theme chocolates on Nov. 1. I guess that is a bonus to celebrating Christmas so early.

As the chilly temperatures continue to sink into the area, many of us are starting to get into the holiday spirit. The holidays bring cheer and happiness to many people and especially during this crazy year we have all experienced. Starting to celebrate earlier makes people feel more joyous.

When you were a kid, did you take piano lessons? Have your parents signed you up for piano lessons, paid for them, drove you around every week? Have they attended your recitals and supported you during stressful times such as examinations, contests, recitals and auditions?

The list could go on. In fact, I encourage you to write a list of 10 things that you are grateful for related to your piano journey. Bonus: get extra points for actually thanking people that have been part of your music journey.

To conclude, I think that by expressing gratitude regularly, you can become better at playing the music you like at the piano. Simply going over the things that you CAN do, and focus on the positive outcomes will, in the end, generate more positive outcomes.

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