2018 Term 1, Week 3 &4: Instruments of the Orchestra - Strings

Come along (especially by 2.30) to hear Claudia Gunn sing her children's songs which we listen  and dance to in Juior music classes. 

Notation Practice:
Scroll down to last week's blog for Part 1 of this graphic notation series. 

Add bar lines to make 5 bars in 4/4 timing.

More practice: 

Add bar lines then clap the rhythms.  Scroll down to the end of the post to find the completed versions with bar lines included. 

Even more extension 

Clap each rhythm, then work with a partner or a group to clap two or more rhythms together.

Juniors - Moving to Music 
- Lullaby by Claudia Robyn Gunn 
- How many Sleeps by Claudia Robyn Gunn 

Dances - Juniors: 

Freeze Game 

Get Ready to Wiggle 

Skip to My Lou 

Kids Bop Shuffle - Sound track 

Lyrics  to help you do the dance: 

to the right, to the right, to the right, to the right,to the left, to the left, to the left, to the left now kick, now kick, now kick, now kick now walk it by yourself,  now walk it by yourself

Chicken Dance -  Use the video to learn the dance, then dance to the music without the video. 

Seniors: 

YMCA

Shout

Land of 1000 Dances

We No Speak Americano

Singing: 

La La Song  

Instruments of the orchestra  - This week, we are looking at the string section.  (BBC orchestra) 
Here's another video showing each of the members of the string section of an orchestra.
And here is the Melbourne Orchestra explaining and demonstrating the string section.  You might be able to answer some of the questions yourself. 

Vocabulary: 

violin, viola, cello, double bass (string bass / bass), harp

orchestra, conductor, audience  

Parts of a violin. Follow this link to find out more. 

Watch this 6-year-old girl play "Let it Go" (from Frozen) on the violin. 

Here is some modern orchestral music played on an amplified violin.  David Garrett plays Palladio by Carl Jenkins. 

And - the most important thing to remember when you go to  concert or a performance is to . . . turn your phone off!  See what happens when  someone's phone rings in a classical violin concert. 

Introducing the crotchet rest. Follow this chart and do the actions. 

Homework: Here's a video of  The Pink Panther who tries to play the violin  in an orchestra performing Beethoven's 5th symphony.


Notation - with bar lines included: