Monday, December 1, 2008

WEEK 16

This is a busy time in our music department...
7th/8th grade chorus students are preparing for our Winter Concert on Tuesday, December 16th at 7pm. This concert is our semester exam. We have a group singing with Riverview High this week (see notice below for more info). 9 week notebook check and singing exam will be here before we know it (the week of December 15th). If you need a chorus shirt please see Mrs. DeWitt. We have some available for purchase ($15.00).
6th grade chorus students Winter Concert is next week on Thursday, December 11th at 7pm. We are memorizing music/narrations. Keep practicing at home. This week's vocabulary words are soprano, alto, tenor and bass.
7th/8th grade keyboard students began working in Middle C position. New songs include Good King Wenceslas and Happy Birthday to You. There will be no listening quiz this week. Our written assignment is a review of Treble Clef/Bass Clef lines and spaces.
6th grade music wheel students are in the keyboard lab reviewing Beethoven's Ode to Joy and will begin a study on Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. We will have several written assignments to accompany this study and will head back to the keyboard lab at the end of the week to learn one of his famous melodies on the instrument.

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