The document is a song about a barn owl on an autumn night composed by 3rd grade students at Columbia Elementary. It describes the owl flying under a full moon on a chilly autumn night. The students discuss how they wrote the song using musical elements like pitch, rhythm, tempo, and dynamics. They also propose performing and recording the song with some acting out parts of owls flying.

1. By Columbia Elementary 3 rd Graders

2. Aren’t I
beautiful to
 Composers, or song
look at?
writers, write songs
because something
inspires them.
 Many composers are
inspired by nature.
 What do you think of when
you see this picture?
 What words would you use
to describe this picture?

3. With a full moon in the
sky,
Lyrics are the
words to a On a chilly autumn night,
song.
Listen for the whoosh of
wings,
As the barn owl makes its
flight.

4. With-a full-moon in-the sky,
On-a chil-ly au-tumn night,
Lis-ten for-the whoosh-of wings,
As-the barn-owl makes-its flight.

5. With-a full-moon in-the sky,
On-a chil-ly au-tumn night,
Lis-ten for-the whoosh-of wings,
As-the barn-owl makes-its flight.

6.  Our song used the pitches “Do-Re-Mi”? Composers use
those too.
 Our song began on “Do” and ended on “Do”. Most songs do
that too.
 All of the rhythms were the same but the pitches had an
ABAB’ pattern. Did you notice any other patterns?
 Since we are most comfortable with “Do-Re-Mi”, we used
them in our song. Other composers like to decide what
mood (happy, sad, angry, excited) their song will be before
they add the pitches. Pitches can help express the mood.

11.  The tempo, or speed, of the song
 Presto (very fast)
 Allegro (fast)
 Andante (walking speed)
 Largo (slow)
 The dynamic level, or volume, of the song
 Piano (quiet)
 Mezzoforte (medium loud)
 Forte (loud)

12. Drums: Hand Drums
4
4
Metals: Triangle
4
4

15.  You could have some people fly around, pretending to
be owls?

16.  Let’s record our performance.
 Let’s listen to our performance. Doesn’t is sound so
cool with all the different parts going on?
 What did you think? Did you like the song?
 Was there anything we could do better?