Update for Week of September 19-23

This week in theory, Kindergarten began the journey of learning about clefs (treble and bass), first grade continued to work on labeling staff notes, second grade worked on identifying steps and skips, and third grade began learning bass clef notes. Kindergarten and first grade are also working on developing the feeling of rhythms and sight reading them with our "Rhythm Cafe." Second and third grade were introduced to their upcoming composition project, where they will write a piece of music.

In listening, Kindergarten and first grade listened to the William Tell Overture, where they moved to the music and then colored a picture that represented that movement. Second listened to “Golliwog’s Cakewalk” by Claude Debussy and did their own impromptu cakewalk.

In History, third grade went over the Baroque Period composers and studied for their upcoming test next week. Scroll down to the end of this post for the full test with answers.

All grades worked on their concert songs. They are:

Second Grade Songs:
Hine Ma Tov
Lightning!
Arre Borriquito - Different classes have different parts (click on "Part-by-Part" at the bottom)
     2A should practice "part 2"
     2B and 2C should practice "part 1"

Third Grade Songs:
Carol of the Bells (no recording available)
Hanerot Halalu
Amani Utupe. 

First Grade Songs:
Ring the Bells, It's Christmas!
Rock of Ages/Ma-o-Tzur
(no recording available)
Somebody's Knockin'

Kindergarten Songs:
I Have a Little Dreidel
(no recording available)
Jingle Bells
(no recording available)
Down in the Valley
(no recording available)

Second grade has not finished learning Arre Borriquito, and first grade is trying to learn Rock of Ages' Hebrew lyrics now that they have mastered the English ones.

BAROQUE QUIZ STUDY GUIDE

In the Baroque Era, music (as well as clothing, architecture, and other things) were characterized by Ornamentation

Bach was born in Eisenach, Germany

Bach played harpsichord, violin, and organ

Bach was considered to be one of the greatest masters of the Baroque Era.

Scarlatti was born in Naples, Italy, although at the time there was no such country, only city-states.

Scarlatti was known for keyboard sonatas.

Scarlatti became good friends with Handel

Scarlatti was a virtuoso on the harpsichord

Handel was born in Halle, Germany

Known as the "Master of the Oratorio"

Handel was virtuoso on the organ

One of Handel's most famous oratorios is The Messiah

Vivaldi was born in Venice, Italy, although at the time there was no such country, only city-states.

Vivaldi was a priest in Venice and had red hair, so was nicknamed The Red Priest

Bach admired Vivaldi and remade some of his music into organ music.

True or false – there weren’t “Baroque orchestras” so much as small ensembles that eventually developed into orchestras later in history: True

A musical play based on a religious story or scripture:
oratorio

A piece of music that is played on a solo instrument:
sonata

A musical composition for a solo instrument (or instruments) accompanied by an orchestra: concerto

To be highly skilled in music is to be:
virtuoso