Close up on cello

The spotlight today was on the cello. It is a member of the violin family.

 More about it here http://dsokids.com/listen/by-instrument/cello.aspx

Here is the famous American cellist Yo Yo Ma

Senior Infants
Animal Theme Day
Stick Rhythms Tas Ti Tis and Puppy Dogs' tails
Echo Song Come to the Pet Shop

1st class
Action Song Penguin Song/Teddy Bear Rock and Roll
Stick Rhythms
cello time

2nd class
Teddy Bear Rock and roll
Stick Rhythms
Foxtrot Lines and spaces
Sight reading Toreadors' March

3rd class
Rhythm Hopping and skipping Triplets
GDAE Greedy Dinosaurs ate everything
Vivaldi in G
Foxtrot
Toreadors
First Finger Riff Drunken Sailor  pizz / singing two groups

4th
Three Billy Goats Gruff  special effects

5th
Beguine Samba Brazil open strings on stave
Foxtrot
Vivaldi on G
Toreadors March

Know your coordinate  A1-5 B1-6 C1-6 D 1-6



 

Close up on the Clarinet

Ash Weds

The spotlight this week was on the clarinet  a member of the woodwind family.  We had a good look at a real live instrument instrument and saw how the pieces fit together. It is a reed instrument. A reed is cut from a thick blade of grass and is fastened to the mouthpiece. Check out the two videos below .  The clarinet is widely used in classical music and jazz. Listen to the theme from American composer George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue. The music is jazz in style and arranged for a full size symphony orchestra.

Find out what the other members of woodwind family are

Ms Bradleys : Teddy Bear Rock and Roll Click on the link to hear the song and view lyrics

http://msfionamusic.weebly.com/ks1-choir.html 
                        Ceol ars an t-asal
Ms Gordon Sailing over the Sea Number Song  Teddy Bear Rock and Roll
Ms Barrett Ceol ars an tasal  Teddy Bear Rock Rhythm and Heart beat Hot Cross Buns

Ms Rock 2nd class Bow Hold Wintertime in Russia Clarinet close up  Mountaineer Song
1st class Mountaineer song with strum, tremolo game clarinet
3rd class Wintertime in Russia, Foxtrot, Yo Bow Rap
 




 

 

 

Snr Infants 1 Jack and Beanstalk songs / Teddy Bear Rock and Roll
Snr Inf 2 Penguin Song , Aon Do Muc is Bo

2nd class
1st class 1 Mountaineer song Semibreve pizz GDAE Minim Strum Strum Walk walk walk walk pizz on A
1st class 2

4th / 5th Class Programme

We will Rock You  Riff
Scale on D
String Crossing
Birthday Greetings

Week 6
Infant classes Doggie Doggie Where's your Bone
Solo and group. Rhythm and pitch

Garda Band Day

It was a very  exciting day at the Marist  Primary School on Thursday. The Garda Band came to the hall for a fabulous performance.  Under director, Pat Kenny, the Garda band delighted their audience with a variety of popular tunes with which the children were familiar. Film themes, Mission Impossible, Ghost Busters, Cartoon favourites, a sing along to hits from Frozen and top tunes from the world of sport. The conductor involved the audience at every opportunity and introduced all the instruments in the band – piccolo, flute, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, trombone, French horn, tuba, guitar, keyboard and drums. Children and teachers were invited to play a supporting role as percussionists and demonstrators. One of the members stepped forward to add vocals on a Johnny Cash selection. Pat Fitzpatrick on tin whistle demonstrated tremendous skill and proved that the smallest quietest instrument in the band can made a big impact. A highly entertaining and educational experience for all the  adults and children . 

Lá le Bríde

Snr. Infants: 1 New Song Teddy Bear Rock and Roll
Rhythm patterns Nursery Rhyme Mary Mary Quite Contrary

Snr Infants 2 - Rhythm and shake in the Hall

1st class: Bow Hold with pencil Bow old with Bow
 2nd class no class
3rd Vivaldi in in G, Foxtrot, First finger riff, glissando
4th /5th class : Glissando , semitone theme, Blues
Conducting a pattern of 4 

Shoe the Donkey: a Mazurka


 

Blues and Brass

Spotlight today was on the trumpet , the smallest and brightest of the brass family of instruments . Read more about the trumpet and the other members of the brass  family on the link below . http://www.classicsforkids.com/music/instruments_list.asp?family=Brass

Listen to Niall O Sullivan play Somewhere Over the Rainbow on trumpet. What other instruments are playing in the quartet?


 

Junior Infants Cool NEW SONG Teddy Bear Rock and Roll  Listen here

http://msfionamusic.weebly.com/ks1-choir.html



Senior Infants Ms Maloney Amhrain as Gaeilge Penguin Song
                        Ms McDonagh Jack and Beanstalk Songs

1st class 1 Bow Hold with pencil  Yo Bow Rap
               Bally boden Blue bell

2nd class Foxtrot First finger down  Note lengths Notes on stave

3rd class  Foxtrot Old Macdonald new note G'

4th/ 5th  class Blues Task 3
First Finger Blues   Notes on stave

D E D E  G G G_   x 4
0  1 0  1   0  0  0

A B A B  D E D E

G G G G G z D z



 

Viola Day

Here is what we did in our music classes at Marist Crumlin  this week.

Junior infants are working on some new story songs and a Fee Fi Fo Fum chant to go with our latest story
Jack and the Beanstalk.   (Singing Sherlock Vol 1)

Jack climbed up the beanstalk, up up up so high,
Jack climbed up the beanstalk til he reached the sky

Jack climbed down the beanstalk with the money sack
Jack climbed down the beanstalk, I'm never going back

more verses next week




Amhran as Gaeilge  Buail Bos  (Sing with Mike)
                                 Buail bos , gread cos , cas timpeall and glac sos
Aon Do muc is bo

Nursery Rhyme time 
Baa Baa Black Sheep  Rhythm patterns

Senior Infants : Three Little Pigs song with percussion 
shakers for straw
claves for sticks
wood blocks and drums for bricks

Trotting down the road

new vesion Running down the road
Help me help me someone help me

1st- 3rd class

                            The Mountain Song

 gaze    Ta aa aa aa  4 heart beats

               Climb Climb Ta - aa 2 beats
            
Walk walk walk walk    Ta aa aa aa  1 beat each
     
Run run run run run run run run     ti Ti ti ti ti  ti ti  ti  


2/3 rd Balloon Bowa and shivery bows  Yo Bow Rap  Ireland's Call


5th /4th

Sing and Play:Ireland's Call :Tremelos,  Down Bow Retakes

Sing and play : First finger riff to Drunken Sailor
                          EEEEEEEE DDDDDDDD EEEEEEEE DDDD E_ E_

Foxtrot : Arco

Instruments of the Orchestra : The Viola
Introducing the viola Find out more about the viola here http://www.dsokids.com/listen/by-instrument/viola/.aspx      
Looks like a violin but has one string C  lower string  below G .

Stringschool Ten Pieces :  Ten pieces of classical music everyone should know. The piece I played in class on my viola is called The Swan by French composer  Camille Saint Saens. The solo part is played here on a cello . What is the other instrument you can hear?






 

Ten Pieces: No 2 The Swan from the Carnival of the Animals

http://viewpure.com/Yej7GLtdkaw?start=0&end=0 Watch a ballerina dance to The Swan  by Saint Saens here .                                                                                   

More about the Carnival of the animals here http://www.welbourneprimary.com/Links/Music/Saintsaens/Carnivalofanimals.htm


Rhythm and pitch conductors



Infants task list

 

All About The Bass

Junior/.Senior Infants

Infants Classes had lots of fun singing two new songs . The Penguin Song. 
(Singing Sherlock Vol 1)

New Today Where is Thumbkin    (Tune Frere Jacque)  Finger play
Where is Thumbkin Where is Thumbkin
Here I am , Here I am
How are you today sir, Very well I thank you
Run away, Run away

Where is pointer etc. Where is Tall Man, Ring Man, Pinkie, Where are all the men

String groups
All string classes met the daddy of the violin family today  when the Stringschool
Double Bass  visited the classroom.  Click on the link to read more and hear a sample.

We learned the names of the strings starting with the lowest  Elephant, Alligator, Donkey , Goat


1st Class / 2nd class
Steady Beat rap
Rest position, Play position , Proper pizz,  Lollipop lady
Greedy Dinosaurs Ate Everything   a good way of remembering the violin  strings

John Ryan's Polka  pizzicato open string D

Playing each string in turn .
 E for elephants ta ta ti ti ta  A for alligators ta ta ti ti ta
D for Dolphins G for gorillas

3rd -5th Class

Stringschool Ten Pieces
 Ten pieces of classical   music you should know about          
Playing along today to
Piece no 1 Carmen Prelude  Read more about the composer here Bizet

Listen to the piece again here
1 Describe what happens to the tempo  during the piece
2 It is mostly a march.  How many beats in each bar?
3 The music is heard at rugby matches and is associated with one team in particular. Which Irish province? (It's not Leinster)

4 Which string fitted best?.  Playing pizzicato on A in forte (loud ) sections
What happens the dynamic (loud and soft )

Foxtrot Notes

Foxtrot  DDD_ AAA_ DDD_ AAA_ DDD_ DDD_ AAA_ AAD sh   Track 2

Group 1 and 2 split the notes  and adding in the bass for a extra depth

Fact Files
 Opera A story told completely by singing. Musicals have songs too but also spoken dialogue Opera singers don't use microphones and yet fill the largest opera houses with just their voice alone . The national opera house in most countries  is usually a very grand building.


Sydney Opera House

Question Ireland has a national opera house . Can you find out where it is .  It isn't in
Dublin

This is a clip from Carmen when the Toreadors( Bullfighters ) come into town with everyone shouting and cheering.

Finally , pop super-star David Bowie died this week.
 Considered by many to be a genius He had many hits and always tried to be different  to other pop stars in his stage clothes and music  This is one of my favourite hits https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muMcWMKPEWQ