Music

Announcements

Hello students and families! I am so looking forward to a year of exploring and making music with you!

7th/8th Homework: You will have your next QUIZ on 10/29 and 10/31. Please review your notes on Tchaikovsky and "1812 Overture," as well as instrument families.

Our next Performance Days will be December 17 (Wednesday classes) and December 18 (Thursday classes). Performance Day is an OPTIONAL celebration of the many musical talents of our students. Students are encouraged, but not required, to share things they have been working on in private lessons or independently. Please limit performance times to 3 minutes per student.

Questions? Need an accompaniment track played for your performance? Email me at shelby.shepard@dc.ascentcolorado.org.

Mrs. Shepard

shelby.shepard@dc.ascentcolorado.org

1st Grade

We are studying Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf, a lovely musical story that reinforces the knowlege of instruments we gained in our last unit!
Differentiating between rhythm and beat, as well as learning to read basic quarter and eighth note rhythms, is also a part of the plan.

2nd Grade

We are studying Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf, a lovely musical story that reinforces the knowlege of instruments we gained in our last unit!
Notating quarter and eighth note rhythms (and possibly adding in quarter rests) will be our music theory focus for the next few weeks.

3rd and 4th Grade

For the next few weeks, we get to make a connection to the students' literature class as we explore Rimsky-Korsakov's "The Sea and Sinbad's Ship," a piece of music inspired by the story of Sinbad the Sailor.
We will also practice reading and writing musical rhythms and singing canons.
Recorder study will begin in January.

5th and 6th Grade

We are continuing to refine our active listening skills as we explore Haydn's "Emperor" string quartet.
Singing canons and rounds will also help us learn to listen well, both to ourselves and others!
Ukulele study begins right after fall break.

7th and 8th Grade

We are fine tuning our active listening skills as we explore Tchaikovsky's bombastic "1812 Overture."
As we continue to explore how our voices work well with others, we will learn several canons that can be joined together into one!
Ukulele study begins right after fall break.

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