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17-03-19 Peter and the Wolf Lessons
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ARTIE AND DENISE Summer Symposium Las Vegas! July 25-26, 2017
Registration now open! Information - USA teachers . Canadian Teachers - Info
International Kodaly Symposium - Aug. 8-13, 2013 in Camrose, Alberta!
This is going to be an amazing conference, with beautiful choir performances and many internationally renowned Kodaly speakers, including Lois Choksy, Dr. Laurel Trainer, Jill Trinka, and many more.
Peter and the Wolf is a timeless classic. There are many musical concepts to teach using this wonderful composition. Visit www.musicplayonline.com to find all these wonderful ideas!
Identify the instruments
In Peter and the Wolf, Tchaikovsky uses different instruments to represent the characters. This is a great opportunity to teach children about the instruments of the orchestra. In the Listening Resource Kit 1, Denise wrote words to sing with many of the themes. Stacy Werner illustrated them in the Listening 1 Digital Resource, and Shannon Machtans has turned them into listening movies that are now part of the musicplayonline.com resource!
In the movie "The Duck" the little song teaches about the tempo of the music, and the instrument that plays the theme.
Identify the Expressive elements
The duck theme is played by the oboe. It’s a very short listening example. The students are asked to listen and point to slow-medium-fast, pitch: high-medium-low and dynamics: quiet-medium-loud. Pause the movie on each slide and discuss it with your students. My youngest students (my 3 year old twin grandaughters) are getting better at fast and slow and loud and quiet but they still don't get high and low.
Students are asked what instrument represents the duck, and they learn about the oboe.
The Cat song is one of my favorites. The melody is memorable (gets stuck in your head) , and the melodic contour is illustrated as the students sing.
The Wolf is used to teach about crescendo.
The entire story of Peter and the Wolf is given on the musicplayonline.com website. After you’ve taught all the themes, the story will be much more meaningful to the students than it would be without the preparation!
This worksheet comes from the Listening Kit 1 and will be made into an interactive activity (and printable) on the musicplayonline.com website. Use it to assess how well the students have learned which instrument represents which character.
The new website is www.musicplayonline.com
Create an account and explore the site while it's free - it will be free until Aug. 1st, and will be an affordable subscription site after that.
New at musicplayonline.com
- rhythm composition tool
- 1 line, 2 line, 3 line and 5 line staff to compose melodic patterns
Coming soon:
- solfa tone ladders
- lesson plans
- arrangements (piano, guitar, ukulele, Orff, Boomwhacker) for all songs: right now only Little Tommy Tinker has arrangements posted.
Denise Gagne
denise@musicplay.ca
(blog) www.denisegagne.com
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| | Do you need a very cute song for kindergarten graduation?
Single Song Kits include piano/vocal score, vocal reproducible and mp3s of performance and accompaniment. The Single song kit for We Did It! also includes a class book to use for early literacy.
Link to Canadian site
Link for USA teachers
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Artie & Denise 8th Annual
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| | July 25-26, 2017 Chicago
Join Artie Almeida, Thom Borden, and Denise Gagne for a 2 day elementary music conference that will give you ideas and inspiration for teaching your elementary music classes.
Join Artie and Denise for the 8th annual summer symposium! Two days of fabulous workshops and a day of sightseeing. Canada - Click to Register Online . USA Teachers - Link
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More is being added each week to our online resource. This week, look for new beat and rhythm activities for ALL the reading songs in Grade 2. Teach ties and half notes with these wonderful interactive lessons.
http://musicplayonline.com/
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Apps and Digital Resources
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| | We've created SIX great apps for iPad or Google devices. If you have a class set of iPads, volume purchasing is available for these apps. LINK INFO
Note Name Smash! New note naming app! Only .99 USD
In this app, you choose the notes to practice. Each note correctly named breaks a hole in the wall. Name them all and the wall breaks!
Link to Note Name Smash in iTunes
Rain Rain Story - is a sound story book that uses the Rain Rain Go Away song, and a poem for students to accompany. This app includes ear training activities and instrument exploration.
Rain Rain Story - iTunes Rain Rain Story - Google
Note Name Match Game - 10 levels of Memory to match notes with their letter names. Great for recorder students, piano lessons, beginning band.
Note Name Match Game - iTunes
Note Name Memory Game - Google
Vocal Warm-ups for Singers or Choir
 This app is based on the warmups book, "Strictly Warmups" by Kerry Heisler. The warm-ups in this collection are organized into five sets. Each set includes a physical warm-up, breath awareness, then five minutes of a variety of mid-range warm-ups.
Vocal Warmups for Singers or Choir - iTunes
Vocal Warmups for Singers or Choir - Google
 Learn and Play Recorder has everything that you need for your beginning recorder classes.
Learn and Play Recorder - iTunes Learn and Play Recorder - Google
 Learn and Play Recorder 2 is now available for iTunes and Android devices!
This app gives your recorder players 24 songs for two part soprano with optional alto. Naming notes is reviewed, now with interactive practice! Counting music is reviewed, with an interactive name the note value activity. The full score with both regular alto and transposed alto for teachers to project is included.
Learn and Play Recorder 2 - iTunes Learn and Play Recorder 2 - Google
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ARTIE AND DENISE Summer Symposium Las Vegas! July 25-26, 2017
Registration now open! Information - USA teachers . Canadian Teachers - Info
International Kodaly Symposium - Aug. 8-13, 2013 in Camrose, Alberta!
This is going to be an amazing conference, with beautiful choir performances and many internationally renowned Kodaly speakers, including Lois Choksy, Dr. Laurel Trainer, Jill Trinka, and many more.
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