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FOURTH GRADE - WINTER PROGRAM 2025 PRACTICE LINKS:
Winter Concert Theme: Starry, Starry Night
Performance for school audience: Monday, Dec 15, 9AM & 1:30PM
Performance for Parents/Families/Friends: Tuesday, Dec 16,
9AM- Grades 3, 4, 5 & 1:30PM- Grades K, 1, 2
in the Wilson Gym
ShootingStar-Demonstration.m4a
Huron Carol Fantasy IP.mp33-4-5 WALKING song (canon)
3-4-5 Combined finale song- Shine Like Stars (demo)
Winter Magic (Demo)
Winter Magic (Demo)
Winter Magic.mp3HOME RECORDER And VOCAL PRACTICE
FOR SSO FIELD TRIP-The Orchestra Moves- March, 2026:
PLAY Along with Shibolet Basadeh
*Recorder Star Part!
23. Shibolet Basadeh (recorder star).wav
SING Along with Cidade Maravillhosa!
19 Toreador From Carmen (vocal part).wav
SING Along with Toreador from Carmen!
19 Toreador From Carmen (vocal part).wav
SING Along with Come to Play!
23. Shibolet Basadeh (recorder star).wav
23. Shibolet Basadeh (recorder star).wav**Mhande Listening link - sing along on response!
HOME ACTIVITY: Explore Carnegie Kids!
Wilson Elementary Music-VIRTUAL LEARNING March-May 2020!
4th Grade Music - VIRTUAL LESSON Eleven & Twelve:
4th Grade Music - VIRTUAL LESSON Eleven & Twelve:
EXPLORING FORM IN MUSIC!
EXPLORING FORM IN MUSIC!
Throughout the year, we have listened to music by many different composers, and from many different genres. While listening, we often will listen for the musical FORM of the piece.
FORM is simply how the piece is organized into sections. Most commonly, we find AB form, or verse/refrain form. However, there are several other forms in music that composers and arrangers sometimes use.
This little video is a great tool to help us understand basic form in music. You will enjoy that the creator of this video uses music and explanations YOU will know, as samples to explain form! He also shows how form is not just used in music, but also found in art and literature!
Check it out!
FORM (AB)
Sometimes composers use one basic theme, then make variations on that theme to make the song interesting! This is a wonderful demo of a basic theme with many creative variations!
FORM (THEME & VARIATION)
4th Grade Music - VIRTUAL LESSON Eight: EXPLORING LATIN JAZZ
4th Grade Music - VIRTUAL LESSON Eight: EXPLORING LATIN JAZZ
May 5th is CINCO DE MAYO!
May 5th is CINCO DE MAYO!
Since we've been exploring JAZZ during the month of April, and May 5th is Cinco de Mayo, we're going to celebrate the importance of the Spanish and Cuban rhythmic influence on Jazz Music!
Since we've been exploring JAZZ during the month of April, and May 5th is Cinco de Mayo, we're going to celebrate the importance of the Spanish and Cuban rhythmic influence on Jazz Music!
"Spanish tinge"—The Cuban influence in early jazz and Latin jazz
"Spanish tinge"—The Cuban influence in early jazz and Latin jazz
African American music began incorporating Afro-Cuban musical elements in the 19th century, when the Cuban habanera rhythm gained international popularity. The habanera was the first written music to be rhythmically based on an African motif. The habanera rhythm (also known as congo, tango-congo, or tango ) can be thought of as a combination of tresillo and the backbeat. Wynton Marsalis considers tresillo to be the New Orleans "clave."
Try to clap or tap both patterns along with the sample sound clip:
Habanera Tresillo Pattern sample:
Habanera rhythm.[5]
"St. Louis Blues" (1914) by W. C. Handy has a habanera-tresillo bass line. Handy also included this rhythm in his "Memphis Blues", and the chorus of "Beale Street Blues", and other compositions.
See if you can hear the habanera-tresillo rhythm
(HINT- Pay close attention to the piano part!!)
St. Louis Blues by W.C. Handy, played by Wynton Marsalis
Here is a GREAT explanation of the roots of the Tresillo rhythm from Afro-Cuban and Latin Jazz music all the way to many pop songs YOU will recognize in this!
You'll enjoy this one! Now that you know what a tresillo rhythm is, see how many other of your favorite pop songs have used these "old" rhythms! Cool, huh?
4th Grade Music - VIRTUAL LESSON NINE: Cinco de Mayo!
4th Grade Music - VIRTUAL LESSON NINE: Cinco de Mayo!
As we continue to celebrate Cinco de Mayo, do you remember learning about the folk music of Mexico last year in 3rd grade?
One of the most famous types of Mexican folk music is Mariachi! Take a listen!
Do you recognize this clip, or any of these instruments? What do you enjoy most about this video?
Mrs. B loves all of this, but really enjoys when the men are singing all together creating HARMONY!
POPULAR FOLK INSTRUMENTS OF MEXICO
Guitarrón Mexicano
Guitarrón Mexicano
The Guitarron mexicano probably sounds a lot like another instrument with which you are already familiar; the guitar. In fact, its name translates to “Mexican guitar!" In many ways, it is very similar, in that it is a plucked stringed instrument that looks an awful lot like its name suggests but in fact it is quite different from the guitar that you know. It is about 2 times as large as a guitar–and resembles a bass more than a guitar. It is also fretless with a short neck and a convex back. If you have ever seen a live Mariachi band then you have seen a guitarrón mexicano. There are usually 2 of them alongside the smaller vihuela, which we will discuss next.
Vihuela
Vihuela
The vihuela is a much smaller instrument, and has five strings where its larger cousin, the guitarrón mexicano, has six. It, too has a convex back, and looks an awful lot like the instrument from which it is likely derived: the lute. Quite similar to the guitarron mexicano, except that it is fretted along the neck and has a much higher pitch when it is plucked or strummed.
Arpa Jarocha
Arpa Jarocha
The arpa jarocha is another familiar instrument similar to a harp. It has 36 strings and is played while standing, but started out as a smaller seated harp. This harp is unique in that there were many harps in existence throughout central America before the Spanish introduced the baroque harp to the region, but the people of Veracruz reinterpreted the instrument to make it a completely new instrument. It is primarily used in group music, contunjo jarocho or jarochos sones music, a type of folk music that is played as an ensemble with the harp as the main melody and other Mexican instruments like the jarana guitar and the requinto.
Ocarina
Ocarina
The ocarina is an instrument that is common to many regions of the world.The ocarina is more than 12,000 years old! Mexican ocarinas and other instruments like it are considered folk instruments from and are sometimes shaped into birds, turtles, or totems.
Trumpet
Trumpet
The trumpet is a staple instrument in Mexican jazz and Mariachi ensembles, but it wasn’t always this way! In fact, it wasn’t until the 1950s that two well known mariachi musicians, Silvestre Vargas and Rubén Fuentes introduced the instrument to the sound Mariachi sound, called son. They drew their inspiration from the Jazz music craze that was sweeping the nation and from the distinctive cuban sound that utilized the trumpet.
Accordion
Accordion
The accordion is another instrument that you will find in Mexican music. Does that surprise you?
Marimba
The Marimba a type of xylophone. Traditionally made of wooden bars with resonators, it was likely introduced to Mexico in the 16th or 17th centuries. The mayans made resonators out of gourds.
Friction Drum
The friction drum, which is a membranophone percussion instrument that also called an arcusa or tigrera, is a simple drum covered with a membrane with a stick in the middle, similar to the Cucia drum from Brazil.
4th Grade Music -VIRTUAL LESSON TEN: Cinco de Mayo, continued!
4th Grade Music -VIRTUAL LESSON TEN: Cinco de Mayo, continued!
Let's continue to celebrate by singing or listening to a Mexican folk song
and circle passing game!
You can play this game at home with another family member or friend!
*First, listen to the song video. Some of you may be able to sing along in Spanish, and some of you may want to just listen and keep the beat in your lap, or with a homemade maraca!
*Next, once you've listened and watched, read the game instructions, and find some little items from around your house that you can pass to the beat!
(rocks, legos, spoons, etc, something that will "clack" on the floor)
Watch the second video clip to see the song and game in action.
Once you are ready to play the game, play the first video in the background to see if you can speed up the beat as you go!
The song gets faster, and faster!! Remember the term for that? ACCELERANDO!
LET'S MAKE A HOMEMADE MARACA!!!
What You Need:
What You Need:
2 plastic cups or yogurt containers — the same size — clean and dry
1/2 cup of coffee beans or dried peas or macaroni, rice or beads.
Masking tape
What You Do:
What You Do:
Put the beans or peas into one of the cups or containers
Wrap masking tape around the rims to connect the containers together.
Paint the shaker with bright colors and glue on fabric pieces too if you wish!
Easter Egg Maracas
Or, if you still have some plastic Easter eggs sitting around, here's another type you can make with a handle!
4th Grade Music - VIRTUAL LESSON Six: EXPLORING JAZZ- part 2!
INTERACTIVE JAZZ LINK: Please click on this interactive jazz link, to read the Scholastic page for details about the different types of jazz over time, listen to some short jazz music samples, and an explanation of important jazz facts for students, by Wynton Marsalis! This is an AWESOME LINK and scholastic article for our lesson today- check it out! You will recognize one of your favorite jazz musicians that we learned about back in February! http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/bhistory/history_of_jazz.htm
*After reading through and listening to the samples above, watch the next part of the Animated Jazz Series for kids here. Lots of audience participation in this video! Get ready to sing and scat along!
Introduction to Jazz for Young People, Part 2
4th Grade Music - VIRTUAL LESSON Seven: EXPLORING JAZZ- part 3!
EXPLORING MILES DAVIS
Another very famous Jazz musicians not mentioned in the link material above in lesson five, is Miles Davis. Miles Davis changed what people thought of jazz over time. He was an incredibly talented trumpet player and jazz composer/arranger. One of his famous pieces called "Kind of Blue" is featured in this video, as are other songs from his album Kind of Blue.
This video gives a little view into how he changed jazz over time. Although some of the musical terms or concepts used in this video are beyond what we'd know or learn in 4th grade music, some of you may be able to follow some of what they are talking about. The second video is just the audio recording from the first song called, "So What" from Miles Davis album Kind of Blue.
Listen for the types of instruments you hear, and see if you can hear some of the elements they bring up in the first videos we watched. Remember, Miles Davis did NOT give any of the musicians any written music for this entire album! He wanted the album to be free, spontaneous, and full of improvisation! SO COOL! Enjoy these clips.
HOW MILES DAVIS CHANGED JAZZ
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