Weekly Assignments
Week of April 6 - 9
-Please choose 3 songs from the page entitled "Links to songs on the web" to sing along to depending on your grade
-Please watch the Disney Animation of "Peter and the Wolf" composed by Serge Prokofiev
Week of April 13-17
-Please choose 3 songs from the page entitled "Links to songs on the web" to sing along to depending on your grade
-Please watch the following video on keeping the beat
-Please watch the following video demonstration of the Flute. Each week we will have a different instrument that will be demonstrated
Week of April 21-24
-Please choose 3 songs from the page entitled "Links to songs on the web" to sing along to depending on your grade
-Please watch the following video on the difference between the beat and rhythms. This video will start to introduce reading music notation
-Please watch the following video demonstration of the Clarinet, this is our next woodwind family member to see
-Also please check out the new page on my website entitled "Classical listening". Here I will be posting performances of music often referred to as "Classical" music, but most of the performances will have a twist or a surprise, check it out I think you might like it.
Week of April 27-May 1
-Please choose 2 songs from the page entitled "Links to songs on the web" to sing along to depending on your grade
-Please go to the "Decas Karoke" page on my website and sing along as I play "Happy and you know it". Your job is to either make up the words as you go or use words you remember we have used together in class
-Please watch the following video on different tempos(speed of the beat):
-Please watch the following video demonstration of the Oboe, this is our next woodwind family member to meet:
Week of May 4- 8
-Please choose 2 songs from the page entitled "Links to songs on the web" to sing along to depending on your grade
-Please go to the "Decas Karoke" page on my website and sing along as I play "Skip to my Lou". Your job is make up the words as you sing along to my accompaniment. Remember the words you create must rhyme with Lou. There is a brief explanation on the video as well
-In honor of Star Wars week, please watch the Vienna Philharmonic, conducted by Star Wars composer John Williams, play the "Imperial March"
-Please watch the following video on singing high, low and in the middle
-Please watch the following video demo about our next member of the woodwind family, the bassoon
Week of May 11-15
-Please choose 3 songs from the page entitled "Links to songs on the web" to sing along to depending on your grade
-Please watch the final episode of "The music show" This episode introduces us to reading music on the staff.
-Please watch this inspirational flashmob orchestra video celebrating the 250th Birthday(this year) of Ludwig van Beethoven
-Please watch this very educational video about our next member of the woodwind family, the Recorder!
Week of May 18-22
-Please choose 2 songs from the page entitled "Links to songs on the web" to sing along to depending on your grade
-Please go to the "Decas Karoke" page on my website and sing along while I play "This Old Man". You know the words, count along
-Please watch the video, learn, sing along and do the movements to the New Zealand folk song "Epo I Tai Tai E". This video has tons of great body percussion stuff to go with the song. Have fun!
-Please watch this very creative video of a famous composition by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart entitled "A little Night music"
Week of May 26-29
-Please choose 3 songs from the page entitled "Links to songs on the web" to sing along to depending on your grade
-In honor of Memorial Day please watch and sing along with this video of "Grand Old Flag". We worked on this song back in November
-Please watch the video, learn, sing along and do the movements to the Fillipino children's song "Paa Tuhod Balikat Ulo". A song with a tricky title, but lots of fun movements.
Week of June 1-5
-Please choose 3 songs from the page entitled "Links to songs on the web" to sing along to depending on your grade
-Please watch this video about our next Woodwind instrument we will be viewing, the saxophone. This video is from a music teacher in a neighboring town
-Please watch this video of a Composition written by Johann Sebastian Bach in the year 1723. Here it is reimagined by a jazz ensemble.
_-https://youtu.be/cJ5331Ki3u8
Week of June 8-12
-Please watch this end of the year medley I created of songs we sang through out the school year