Week 13

7th and 8th grade keyboard students are learning to play the C major chord. We are working on playing hands together with 1 hand playing a 3 note chord (CEG)...focusing also on tied notes and slurs. There will not be a listening quiz this week. There will be a written quiz on Thursday reviewing music symbols learned thus far.
6th grade music students begin studying the life and music of composer Ludwig van Beethoven. We will culminate the study by learning to play one of his most famous melodies on the keyboard.
7th and 8th grade chorus students are continuing to focus on reading rhythms. We are working with whole, half, quarter, eighth and sixteenth notes and rests as well as learning various time signatures. Students will continue rehearsals on music for upcoming December performances.
6th grade chorus students have signed up for speaking parts in our holiday musical and we will continue to hear students read for various narrations. We are rehearsing for our December 11th performance. This week's vocab words are time signature, common time and cut time.