Singing with Meaning: What the Song Is About
Primary 1 · Creative Arts
Singing with Meaning: What the Song Is About
Lesson 6 of 8
10 min
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This lesson is a bonus. It is extra, so read it whenever you like.
Byiringiro hears singing in his umudugudu. People are clapping outside a house.
Two people are getting married today. Today you will hear what those songs are for.
Two grown people decide to live together as a family.
Their families come. The neighbours come. Everybody sings.
That day is a wedding.
The woman getting married is called the bride.
People say the two of them are getting married.
Afterwards there is a new family where there were two.
This is the tool that tells the songs apart.
A wedding song talks to two people joining.
A birth song talks to one new baby.
Both days are happy. Both have singing, food and gifts. The words are not the same.
So listen to the words, not to the clapping.
Worked example
A song keeps saying: walk together all your days.
Ask who it is talking to. It is talking to two people, not to a baby.
So it is a wedding song.
Umutoni hears clapping and thinks any glad song will do.
Listen to the words instead. They will tell you who the day is for.
Tip
Ask who the song is talking to
Two people joining means a wedding. One new baby means a birth ceremony.
Happy clapping is not enough to tell you which day it is.
Do each one, then tap Show answer to check.
What is a wedding?
Answer: the day two people marry and become a new family.
A song says: welcome, little one, to our home. Which day is it for?
Answer: a birth ceremony. The song is talking to one new baby.
A song says: may you two be happy together. Which day is it for?
Answer: a wedding. The song is talking to two people joining.
Both days have singing and food. So how do you tell them apart?
Answer: listen to who the words are talking to.
Ask somebody at home about a wedding they went to. What did people sing?
Answer: any song they remember. Ask them who the song was talking to.
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