A U T U M N

Let’s Take a Walk

A Dalcroze/Orff Movement Story
 Let’s go for a walk,
“Autumn“

(Suggested music – Oh Mr. Sun)

My, isn’t it a lovely day!
Listen to the birds.
Smell the sweet grass.
Look a friend!
Give a little wave. (End of Mr. Sun)

Look up at those beautiful leaves,

(Glissando on the black keys)
Some of them are dangling from the bottom branches.
(Trill in the low end of the piano)
Reach up. I bet you can touch them.
(Trills moving up the keyboard to match their reaching)

oh My. it’s an apple tree!

(Highest trill of all)
 The most delicious red apple is at the tippy tippy top.
You can get it! You just need to jump!
Oe,(C Major triad)two,(C Major triad)three
(CMajor triad) Jump. (Flat hand tone cluster)

darn. let’s try again

One,(C Major Triad) two(C Major Triad) ) three (C Major

Triad)Jump.(Flat Hand tone cluster)

One more time

One(C Major Triad), two(C Major Triad), three(C

Major Triad) Jump. (Rolled C Major Chord)
YAY!!!! Now take a big crunchy bite.(Upper end
tone cluster)Yummy.

(Separated staccato notes on black keys upper end of the

keyboard)
Uh Oh! Did you feel a raindrop?
(Faster staccato notes on black keys)
yep. it’s raining. and it’s beginning to rain harder! you better
get back home.
 Yuck! (C minor triad)
Mud!(D diminished chord)
Your feet are stuck.(C Minor triad)
Stuck in the mud.(D diminished chord)
You can barely move your feet.

Pull,(D diminished root) Pull,(D diminished 1st . Inversion) Pull(D

diminished 2nd inversion), Pull(D diminished 3rd inversion)
(C minor resolution)
Finally you are free.

Time to get home before we get soaked.

(Rain Rain Go away played quickly)

Look at that puddle. You should really go around it.

no Way! let’s splash.
(Recorded excerpt of Splish Splash I was taking a bath. I used the
one sung by Elmo.) )

(Der Dichter Spricht FroM”Kinderszenen” robert schuMann – last

13 measures)
There is your house.
You are finally home.
You are very wet.
you better tip toe in so MoM and dad don’t see you.
Take off your boots and hide them under the couch,
Go carefully upstairs. Dry off, ( Yawn)
What a great walk!
 Process
Introduce the story to the students by taking a walk in their
imagination.

Have the students lie down and listen to the story. I turn off the lights
and add the piano accompaniment.

The students find their own space and we act out the story noticing the
diFFerent Ways you can Wave ”hi”; smell the grass ; listen to the birds;
look up at a tree; stretch to touch a leaf; jump to get an apple; run in
the rain; pull to get out of the mud; quietly sneak into the house.

Run the story with the suggested music or improvise some of your own.

I chose the piano as my instrument for accompanying this piece but you
could use guitar, recorder, pitched percussion... Experiment with what
works for you. When I inserted chords or triads, I always used
inversions moving up the keyboard to avoid the repetitiveness of the
root position triad.

Have fun. I hope your students enjoy their walk

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