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Welcome Back! 4/6/20

Don't forget to warm up! Sing along with the Warmup Video or click on the SOLFEGE link for more information.

Bim-Bum-Biddy

Sing the song and do the body percussion. How fast can you sing it alone? Teach another person and try it with a partner. Good luck!

Attention 5th and 6th graders

If you are not in band you can still join next year. Check out these cool instrument demos. Remember, it's never too late to join BAND and make music!!

This is from the Portland Youth Orchestra. Start the video at about 1:38. What was your favorite Orchestral Section? Did you like the sound of the instruments or did you like the music that they played?

This is from some of the best musicians in the USA. These are the instruments you can look forward to playing next year. What is your favorite and why?

Always warm up.

We want OLD MAN WINTER to go away. It's finally starting to get warm outside!!

A great and fun dance for the whole family! Click on the Resources for the musical track!

Another great family dance. Click on the track for the musical track!

Can you learn the "Cup Game"? It's fun and sounds cool but it's not easy to learn.

The warm up, Learn it...live it... love it!

This is from England. Learn the motions and song and see how fast you can go!

Remember Head and shoulders, knees and toes? This is a little different. What cool and creative moves can you and your family come up with?

Love 'em or hate 'em line dances are here to stay. This is an old American Folk Song with a cool beat. It's about a dude named COTTON EYED JOE, he sounds like a cool dude to hang out with. Maybe you have heard it before and maybe you know a different line dance to do with it...have fun!!

Peter and the Wolf

by Sergei Prokofiev born April 23, 1891

A masterpiece from RUSSIA written in 1936 to introduce children to the different instruments in the orchestra.

Listen to the different sounds of the orchestra.

4/27 Warm up time

An Austrian went Yodeling

Here is a great sing along song to do with you family. You can come up with many different versions, the more you have the harder it is to remember.

Yodeling!!

This is Franz "Franzl" Lang, he was known as the yodeling king. He is from Bavaria Germany.

A Kid yodeler.

This is Mason Ramsey, somebody video taped him in a Walmart doing his version of a famous song by the famous singer Patsy Cline.

Jenny Jenkins

This is an old folk song from Vermont. Try to add new colors, make sure the words rhyme!

Oh Susana!

One of the first big popular hit songs from American history. It was composed by Stephen Foster in 1848. Maybe you know it.

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Madrigal music from 1595.

Madrigals were the most popular songs in the late 1500's. Now that's some really really old music.

Now is the Month of Maying.

It sounds weird to us in the year 2020 but this was a big hit song in 1595. These guys can really sing well, my favorite is the guy on the left. I bet that the old people complained about this "new" music.

Erlkönig (The Erlking) by Franz Schubert

An animated version of the Erlking with the English words. Warning!! It's a scary song from 1815.

Welcome to the Opera.

This music is from Rigoletto, it is the most famous song (Aria) from any Opera written in 1851.

La Donna è Moblie.

The singer is Luciano Pavarotti. He is considered the greatest male Opera singer of our time he died in 2007 at age 71. What a beautiful voice!!

Happy birthday May , 1933 to The Godfather of Soul, the Hardest Working Man in Show business.

I saw James Brown in Concert live, best show I have ever seen. He has influenced everybody from MC Hammer to Bruno Mars.

James Brown had many hit songs but I Feel good in the one that everybody knows. This video has a great band and the Godfather (plus killer hair) what could be better.

Happy birthday Brahms. May 7, 1833

His music was so cool that one of the coolest guitar players in history used it on a hit song.

Love of My Life

Warm Up

Liza Jane

Duchess at Tea

Alfred the Alligator

Warm up

Richard Wagner pronounced (Varg-ner)

Born this week was Richard (Ree-kard) Wagner (1813-1883). He only wrote music for the Opera and is the "god" of German Opera. Wagner and Beethoven are considered the greatest German composers. He introduced the leitmotif, a melody played to represent different characters. Think of the Darth Vader theme and Jaws theme. You hear those melodies when the character appears in the story.

Wagner hated Italian Opera (remember Verdi from a few weeks ago). He thought that it was too pretty and fluffy so he wrote MACHO Music. His Operas The Ring of the Nibelung are about 3 hours long for each opera and there are 4 of them. The story is about the Norse Gods (Thor, Odin) and Ragnarok (the end of the world) meets the Lord of the Rings, they are pretty awesome and really Macho.

Thanks Wagner. Plus he rocks the neck beard.

For more info on Wagner:

http://kidsmusiccorner.co.uk/composers/classical/wagner/

Bugs Bunny Opera!

Ride of the Valkyries

This is Wagner's most famous music. The Valkyrie are women warriors, kind of like angles. In this song they are flying down to Earth after a battle to collect the bones of the warriors that have died. They take the bone to Valhalla (heaven) so the warriors can live in paradise.