The theme now is: MUSIC
Tuesday:
Morning (during Kindergarten):
- L and I went to the library to find some books about music
- We cleaned the living room and the floors throughout the first floor
Afternoon (after Kindergarten):
- L napping
- Initial Assessment of Music Knowledge about Music for RJ
- Questions:
- What is Music?
- How can you make Music?
- Prompt: What other ways can you make Music?
- What kinds of musical instruments do you know about?
- What can you tell me about them?
- What can you do with Music?
- Can you tell me about rhythm (prompt with what is rhythm, if necessary), pitch, timbre?
- Read Zin, Zin, Zin, A Violin (Moss, 2000) and listened to each instrument from the book in turn on (L asleep for this) http://www.dsokids.com/listen/instrumentlist.aspx
- Sidewalk chalk paint with feet while dancing to classical music (L asleep for this)
- Water Glass Xylophone
- Concepts: Different levels of water vibrate differently to make different sounds. Sound comes from vibrations. High vs. Low pitch. high pitch = less water; low pitch = more water
Wednesday:
Morning (during Kindergarten)
- Initial Assessment of Music Knowledge for L
- Read Zin Zin Zin to L with the instrument listening activity (he was asleep during it yesterday)
Afternoon (after Kindergarten)
- Cut Musical Staff and Notes out of felt
- Concepts: the staff has 5 lines upon which we put music notes on or between them and above and below them. There are different kinds of notes. We'll cover more concepts as we play with these.
Thursday:
Morning (RJ at Kindergarten, L at Little Kid Co-op)
Afternoon (after Kindergarten)
- Homework time guitar and drum coloring sheets for L (while RJ did his school homework)
- Concepts: Drum and Guitar image recognition
- Note: I usually do not endorse worksheets/coloring sheets, but RJ has been asking for a guitar coloring page and I wanted something "homework like" so that L wouldn't feel left out when RJ was doing his Kindergarten homework packet.
Friday:
Morning (during Kindergarten)
- Read: Out and About at the Orchestra (Turner, 2003)
- Concepts:
- tickets list a row and seat number to help you find your seat
- Music travels through the air in invisible sound waves, bounce off walls and ceiling
- musicians sit in a half circle to make sounds blend and to hear each other better
- String instruments played with bows or plucked
- bows are made from horse tails
- bow makes the strings vibrate, making sounds
- smaller instruments sound higher; larger instruments sound lower and deeper
- woodwind instrument = long and tube like, played by blowing through it
- high sounds = shorter instruments
- low sounds = longer instruments
- reed is a piece of cane (stiff plant like bamboo) fitted in the mouthpiece; it vibrates and makes sound when musician blows through it
- brass instruments can be muted by putting something into the bell
- brass instruments and woodwinds have keys or buttons that when pressed change the distance the air has to travel, changing the sound; farther the air goes = lower the sound
- percussion played by hitting or shaking
- percussion instruments come from all over the world (e.g., Chinese gongs, Turkish cymbals, Cuban bongos, Spanish maracas and castanets, African drums, steel drums from West Indies)
- Conductor = leader of orchestra
- conductor counts beats and keeps musicians playing together, tells them when to go faster, slower, louder, softer
- conductors score is long and has all the parts
- musicians are busy and practice every day
- Played instrument sounds for French horn, trumpet, tuba by request
Afternoon (after Kindergarten)
- Re-read Out and About at the Orchestra (Turner, 2003)
- Played instrument sounds for French horn, trumpet, tuba, tympani drums
- Read: pages 2-5, The Usborne Story of Music (O'Brien, 1997)
- Concepts:
- Music in Ancient Times
- people started making music from the beginning of time, probably by hitting things and singing and clapping
- early instruments have been found
- Egypt
- dancers and flute players accompanied work and entertained
- important at religious ceremonies
- gods and goddesses often pictured playing instruments
- Greek Music
- thought it was the invention of the gods
- wind instrument = aulos
- stringed instrument = kithara
- festivals involved singing and dancing and costumes
- Roman music
- concerts for wealthy
- plays set to music
- musicians were often slaves
- rich people played, but not in public, wasn't dignified
- performing happened on the street too with jugglers and acrobats
- Medieval Music
- Music played part in Christian religion
- Simple melodies = plainsong or plainchant, Gregorian chant is an example
- usually sang by choir, sometimes had instruments
- New Style
- polyphony - two lines to be sung together
- Writing music down
- started with marks over the words
- then marks were placed on lines
- Minstrels
- music used for entertainment
- minstrels went from place to place singing, playing, juggling, acrobatics
- some noblemen became poets/composers = troubadours/trouveres/minnesinger, performed for kings and wealthy, usually love songs
- Instruments: wind: shawms, horns, lute, harp, fiddle, hurdy gurdy
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