 We are wanting to encourage our students to listen to different and important musical works. Your Assignment: Listen to the link below, share with your family, and add comments to let us know what you think! Our third one is Desmond's "Take Five" Time Period: 1959 Style/Mood: Cool, yet off-beat The Dave Brubeck Quartet made this jazz piece famous. Composed by their saxophonist, Paul Desmond, it popularized the 5/4 time signature with a catchy beat. A few years later, this beat was imitated in the Mission Impossible Theme.
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 We are wanting to encourage our students to listen to different and important musical works. Your Assignment: Listen to the link below, share with your family, and add comments to let us know what you think! Our second one is Moonlight Sonata, movement I Time Period: 1801 Style/Mood: Soulful, reflective Live performance of this most famous Beethoven piece by André Watts. Whenever I teach a student a new song, one of the first things we do is figure out what the starting notes are in each of our hands. I always point to the note and ask “What letter is this?” At first, I might get a blank stare, then I say, “Remember the silly thing I say to remember the lines and/or spaces or treble/bass clef?”. Those little funny mnemonic phrases really help my students to remember those letters! How do I remember the spaces of treble clef? They spell FACE. That one most kids remember.  How do I remember the lines of treble clef? EGBDF, or Every Good Boy Does Fine. Now, sometimes my girl students don’t like this one, so we try to come up with something else. For a while, I used Every Good Boy Deserves Fortnight. I was cool with the kids then. How do I remember the spaces of bass clef? ACEG, or All Cows Eat Grass. This one is not only silly, but also factual! I have also used All Cars Eat Gas, but that one isn’t as silly. How do I remember the lines of bass clef? GBDFA, or George Bush Dances For America. I learned this one from my piano teacher growing up and it stuck with me, most likely because George W. Bush was president at the time. But now, kids have asked me “What is a george bush?” I felt OLD. So I came up with a new one, Good Burritos Don’t Fall Apart. Again, silly but true! This one has been a big hit with my students recently!  So, all of these mnemonic devices got me thinking, our students could probably come up with some amazing ways to remember the note names on the staff. So we should have a little contest! We are calling all students to submit their favorite way to remember the lines and spaces, or come up with a fun one themselves! Prizes will be awarded! Treble Spaces: FACE Treble Lines: EGBDF Bass Spaces: ACEG Bass Lines: GBDFA ENTRY DEADLINE WAS OCTOBER 24, 2020
Here are our winners: Bass Lines: GBDFA: Grannies Boogie Down Fifth Avenue! Bass Spaces: ACEG: All Crepes Equal Great Treble Spaces: FACE: free armadillos cross expressways Treble Lines: EGBDF: each gamer boy dies fiercly  We are wanting to encourage our students to listen to different and important musical works. Your Assignment: Listen to the link below, share with your family, and add comments to let us know what you think! Our first one is J.S Bach's Cello Suite no. 1 Time Period: Baroque Style/Mood: Stately, dancy, serene This is a famous work for solo cello! It has seven contrasting movements, you might especially like the 1st, the 3rd (7:09) and 7th (17:38) |
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