For more than three decades, bouttes scholarship, teaching, and service have focused on equity pedagogies. Click image below to open, or rightclick to download activities. Assign some students to keep a steady beat on body percussion to maintain tempo. You will find teaching notes and information about the song, fanga alafia on page 80. Apr 23, 2007 alafia is a standard greetingresponse in the kabye region of togo. With my head i welcome you, with my voice i welcome you, with my heart i welcome you. This is funga alafia by childrens museum of manhattan on vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them. Find and save images from the lana del rey collection by firegirl firegiirl. Funga alafia is a song of welcome, peace, and gratitude. Erik whitehill solotwopart and piano with optional percussion. Fanga alafia nigerian childrens songs nigeria mama. Some people attribute it to the hausa people of nigeria. Funga alafia with orff arrangement music classroom, orff.
This second post showcases lyrics to the funga alafia song. Play the cd, open the book, and let the dynamic sounds of the orchestra with the lively beat of percussion and the vivid illustrations pull you into the pages. This treatment of the african chant, funga alafia will probably be known to some of the older folks on the mailing list. Instructional map grade 5 orff music shelby county schools. Contextual translation of funga alafia ashay ashay into english. Grade 45 orff club performing african folk song funga alafia. Since funga alafia is a traditional african welcome chant, i can also envision the teaching and singing of this song being utilized as a community building activity. Jill gallina by traditional african folk song 2part. Funga alafia by octavo sheet music for choral buy print. Subscribe to our channel for new videos every week.
Contextual translation of funga alafia into english. The millennium stage partners with the washington metropolitan area transit authority to present some of the best d. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which. It can also mean that if someone is a badman then they a funga. Alafia means good health or peace in yoruba one west african language.
Use this welcome song for the beginning of the school year, or to welcome guests to your. The funga alafia fanga song part 2 lyrics pancocojams. Fanga pronounced nowadays, almost, like funga, as in fungus. Songs that dance dances that sing gia publications. The alafia project area is located along the northern and southern shores of the alafia river west of i75 and bordered by gibsonton drive to the south and riverview drive to the north. Check out funga alafia by music shakers on amazon music. Alafia is a hausa greeting and ashay means something equivalent to good health and peace be with you. Bey used words from the yoruba and vai languages alafia welcome. One of my alltime favorite multicultural teaching pieces, funga alafia inspires pentatonic improvisation, syncopa rhythm exploration, cultural awareness, drumming, singing and playing. This package comprises of two 1hour lesson plan, which aims to bring african music into the elementary school music classrooms.
When it comes to african and africanamerican music, brother sule greg wilson is a wellrounded performer and cultural historian. With my thoughts point to head with both hands i welcome you gesture outward with my words point to mouth both hands i welcome you gesture outward with my heart point to heart with both hands i welcome you gesture outward. Also what do the translations of those verses mean. In the kabye language alafia in very general terms can be translated to the equivalent of cava in french, being both a question and a response although in strict terms the question should be alafiwe. May 18, 2016 provided to youtube by cdbaby funga alafia kristin mclean family song music. Gloria boutte is a carolina distinguished professor at the university of south carolina.
The instrument players for funga alafia are at their instruments. Sep 30, 2015 lynn kleiners music box presents funga alafia as performed by music rhapsody students. Fluency lil liza jane teach text by echo while using a visual. Traditional african folk song, lyrics included, chords may be included. Although the term funga alafia is less authentic than fanga alafia, i usually use the title funga alafia. Experience a rousing celebration of life in this nigerian song of welcome. Moore funga jani, aged 29, of robin hood road, willenhall, coventry, driving with an incorrect licence, using a vehicle without insurance, fined pounds 260. I do so partly because thats the title im most familar with, and also because that title is the one that appears to be most often used for that song and may have been the title that was given to this original african american song. Fanga alafia drum dance joe claussell edit youtube. Learn a west african welcome song with fanga alafia which means welcome, peace, good will to you. This article focuses on the development and experiences of two african american language speakers who are on the precipice of biliteracy. Every song has lyrics, a coloring page and activity suggestions. Sing the choruses together, and have your child echo the verses.
Funga alafia performed by music rhapsody students youtube. Lynn kleiners music box presents funga alafia as performed by music rhapsody students. Also included in this lesson pak is a student article on liberia, a recorded pronunciation guide for the yoruba lyrics, and guided instructions on how to improvise a percussion accompaniment. The song is often song with gestures that reflect the translations. Later, he came to cleveland where i met him in person. Alafia is a standard greetingresponse in the kabye region of togo. Funga alafia is a greeting song sung throughout parts of west africa. Explain that this is a greeting song and take suggestions.
Get a special offer and listen to over 60 million songs, anywhere with amazon music unlimited. Establish a steady beat clap to the beat as you sing funga, alafia extend both arms outward in a. Feb 11, 2012 what are all of the verses to the african song funga alafia. Note that there are several extras for this piece, too. A greeting, like hello with the meaning of good health or peace like shalom. Funga alafia west african folk song accompaniment tracks 19. Pronounced ahshay the yoruba believe ashe is a basic force emanating from the creator that unites all living and nonliving. The song is often sung with gestures, touching the head and extending the arms, then the lips, then the heart and showing empty sleeves. Looking for online definition of funga or what funga stands for. To access the digital files, you will need a pdf reader such as adobe reader, which you can. Jill gallina sheet music for choir 2part by jill gallina. Alafia does not come from africa brotherpeacemaker. Funga alafia, ahshay ahshay 4x coloring page and sheet music.
The entire project area covers about 2 square miles and includes the alafia river itself, finger canals, and small embayments. Fanga is a dance interpretation of a traditional liberian invocation to the earth and sky. Funga alafia west african welcome song lessons, visuals. Funga alafia is a traditional song known in many parts of africa, and has been often attributed to the hausa tribes of nigeria. I first met him through the drummers path, his groundbreaking memoir on becoming an african drummer. Im including an original rhythmic chant which can be combined with this piece and performed as a rhythm canon. These include an isolated audio rehearsal track for part 2, a students only mp3, and pdfs of a more full pianostudent score, a boomwhackers part, and percussion parts. Lyrics funga alafia, ashay, ashay repeat apparently, the more accurate spelling of funga is fanga, and ashay is ase source. Partial arrangement from orff we go by cristi miller and kathlyn reynolds.
Choreography is included in this joyful piece, based on a tradi. Originally, it was closer to fahnga, fanga is a dance of welcome that, interestingly, came to the united states from a place the united states founded. Arrangement inspired by doug goodkins arrangement from nows the time. See more ideas about music education, teaching music and music classroom.
See also nigerian folk songs songs with syncopation recorder gac songs song with the same tune as lil funga alafia read more. The story of fanga, from sule greg wilson african dance. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful. It is used to say welcome, the same i say to you, my students in this school year 20172018. I know it is a welcome song, but what country is it from, and what are all the verses. It is a yoruba chant whose lyrics funga alafiaashe ashe translate loosely into i welcome you into my heartamen amen. The spelling is debatable but the pronunciation is alafia. This project was supported by grants from the ithaca public education initiative and the fine arts booster group and with support from the ithaca college school of music and many community volunteers. This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible. Nov 20, 2009 alafia is a hausa greeting and ashay means something equivalent to good health and peace be with you. Translation funga alafia welcome, blessings ase let it be so, or the english word amen. Funga alafia edna brewer orff world music ensemble in rehearsal of this west african welcome song. Editors choice selection basic library item choreography is.
Assign some students to keep a steady beat on body percussion to maintain. Im including an original rhythmic chant which can be combined with this piece and performed as a rhythm canon section or broken into ostinatos. Provided to youtube by cdbaby funga alafia kristin mclean family song music. Orff activities drama activities primary music music station elementary music music for kids music classroom teaching music world music. Post jobs, find pros, and collaborate commissionfree in our professional marketplace. Perhaps it is the callandreponse attributes of the west african folk song that resonates with young people so well. Songs of the sunflowers belle sherman school sunflower room first grade, ithaca, ny. Funga alafia sheet music for flute download free in pdf.
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