5th Grade & 4th Grade Fifth and fourth graders have been studying the Baroque period of music history (1600-1750). They learned about composition techniques and styles, especially ornaments like trills, turns, and appoggiaturas, which made the music sound very fancy and decorated. They also learned about some important and prominent instruments of the period, including the harpsichord and recorder. There were many important composers in this period, but we focused on Antonio Vivaldi in honor of our classroom composer houses. Vivaldi's most famous piece is probably "The Four Seasons." Students took a quiz on what they had learned at the end of this week, and did impressively well on it! 3rd Grade Third graders have started a new recorder unit on tempo. They are learning the Italian terminology for music tempos, or speeds. Largo means slow, moderato is moderate, and presto is fast. These tempo markings can also be modified by adding the word molto, which means very. They are putting these tempos into action with their newest recorder song, "Level Up," which includes four different tempos as the song gets faster and faster. It's a challenge! 2nd Grade Second graders are also finishing a unit on the Baroque period. Like the older students, they have been learning about composition techniques and important instruments. This week, they have been focusing especially on three Baroque composers and their most famous compositions: Antonio Vivaldi, George Frideric Händel, and Johann Sebastian Bach. They have especially enjoyed learning about Vivaldi's hometown of Venice where there are waterways instead of streets, and about Bach's 21 children! 1st Grade First graders have been learning about melody and song this week. Melodies are pitches that follow one another in a song. A song is a musical story or poem. The students have been learning to identify the movement of pitches in a melody that go up, down, or repeat and they have been listening to and identifying different types of songs, including pop, folk, spiritual, and patriotic. Kindergarten Kindergartners are starting to learn about meter in music. Meter is the groupings of beats into 2s, 3s, or 4s. We have started with songs in a meter of 2, and students are really enjoying the new song they learned to practice feeling, singing, and playing this meter. It's all about stinky pirates!
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