Music Monthly Update #8

Students are exploring texture and timbre in music and examining the ways composers use these musical elements in their compositions to create different effects.

Students will be increasing their repertoire of songs and using tuned and un-tuned percussion instruments to accompany performances. We will also be examining the way we can notate musical ideas such as pitch and rhythm.

Students are continuing to explore musical accompaniments.

Using classroom instruments they are composing short pieces exploring the timbres of the different instruments  as well as their voices.

Students are continuing to learn new music and songs on the ukulele. They are also developing their technique and their repertoire of chords. Their ukuleles will need to be returned in the next few weeks.

Drawing on their knowledge of musical conventions that composers such as major minor tonality, sequences, drones and ornamentation, the students are devising their own compositions.

Students are rehearsing music and songs from Once on this Island that will be performed on Wednesday 22nd June at 7pm in the school hall.