2017, Term 3, Week 6: Tuneful Glassware

This is a photoshopped image - so it doesn't exist - but it would be fun to drive on it!

 YOU MUST GO TO THIS CONCERT!  The Auckland Philharmonic  Orchestra are doing a FREE Concert at the Vodafone Events Centre, Manukau, at 3pm, SATURDAY  9th SEPTEMBER.   This is a wonderful opportunity to see a real live orchestra, and to practise all those audience skills we have been learning. 

This week's tongue twister: 

Where would you need to make sure you took a lozenge - in a non-crinkly wrapper? 

Theory: 

Add bar lines to match the time signature. Scroll down to end of post to see the completed version

How many notes  and  music symbols can you identify?

The glass harp is made by  having a set of glasses all the same size and filling them with different amounts of water - or by having a range of different-size glasses and filling them all to the same level. The sound is made by running a finger dipped in water around the rim of the glass.   Friction from the rubbing causes vibration, and the vibration creates sound waves.  The more water, the lower the pitch because the liquid slows down the vibrations.  The use of glasses to make music goes back as far as the 14th century, in Persia.  From the 1700s, various musicians performed using the glass harp - sometimes using a stick instead of moistened fingers. Rock band Pink Floyd used glasses in the recording of Shine on You Crazy Diamond in 1975.   
Here's David Gilmour from Pink Floyd doing Shine on You Crazy Diamond  at a concert in Poland. Notice the glass harps.  Here's a very short video to show you how they set it up for their rehearsal. 

Here's a beautiful piece of music by Franz Schubert, called Ave Maria, played on the glass harp. Notice that it's the same person playing both parts, and they've been mixed together.
                                         

Here he is again, playing Fur Elise by Beethoven. And the Harry Potter Theme. 

Here's a musical saw and a glass harp, playing The Swan from Saint Saens Carnival of the Animals. 

Here's how you can have a go at making a glass harp at home. 

                                       

Dances: (Student requests, plus the following new ones.) 
Juniors: 
All Star (from Shrek)  skip to 28  to start 
Can't Stop the Feeling 
YMCA - Just Dance Kids 
Maxarena 

Seniors:  Y.M.C.A. by the Village People  (Just Dance) 
What Makes You Beautiful - One Direction 
                                                           

Juniors: 
This week's nursery rhyme is 1,2 Buckle my Shoe. There are many versions of this - including a second verse that goes up to 20. 

Homework: 
Check out someone's version of Spongebob doing Dynamite.