Recorder Ensemble - "Air" (B part)

Recorder cats -- since the second 8 measures of "Air" are so similar to the first 8, I'll move right along to the B part. this is the part we worked on in class.

Listen to the recording a few times and then try to play along with the metronome.

Orff Ensemble -- Our New Song

Terrific practice this week Orff cats!

Here's a recording of the piece we started this week. It is also by Gunild Keetman.  Special thanks to Orff Ensemble alum Victoria Lawton for the assist on alto xylophone.

Listen to melody and see how it fits with the repeating rhythm pattern or ostinato on the xylophone. This is what we'll be working on the next couple of weeks.

One more for recorders -- Trill B to A

For those of you who want to work on your trilling, here's a little exercise for you

Recorder Ensemble - "Air" (first 8 measures)

Recorder Cats -- here's the first 8 measures of our new piece, slowed down so you can practice it.

If you want to here the complete piece with all three parts you can click on "Air" - Parts I. II & III which I posted last week.

A couple of more pictures from First Grade this week

First Grade Week 4 -- Imitation and the Orff Instruments

This week in first grade classes the students talked about imitation and how essential it is to learning music.

We began with a fun imitation song -- "The Cuckoo Comes in April" -- in which the students got to improvise cuckoo songs on the aerophones they painted last week.

Then after some review about pitch and vibration we moved over to the Orff Instruments (see picture above).  For those who may have not seen them before, these are the wonderful xylophones and metalophones Friends of Third purchased for the school last year.  As the first graders discovered, learning how make music on them is all about imitation.

Air Part I, II & III

Here's what "Air" sounds like with all three parts.