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    THIRD GRADE INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC

    Hello to our wonderful 3rd grade students!  You will be hearing from all of your teachers today - We all miss you and hope everyone is healthy! 

    We thought you might want to explore one of these cool resources listed below. We guarantee that you will see and hear instruments you never thought existed! Your “assignment” listen to one, two or as many as you’d like. If you want to send us a comment or thought - feel free! 

    Stay healthy and happy! 

     

    cleviatin@scarsdaleschools.org

    eorengo@scarsdaleschools.org



    Imani Woodwind Quintet 

    Children’s Concert at Kennedy Center

     

    Hear and see 5 woodwind instruments...oh, wait, French horn is not a woodwind, it’s a brasswind...ok, 4 woodwind instruments and 1 brasswind playing some really cool music and learn how sound is produced on each one. Hear children’s questions at the end (maybe some of you have the same questions) and answers by the members of the Imani Woodwind Quintet. 

    *Parents, please disregard the phone number on the screen as this video is from a concert at Kennedy Center which was broadcast on PBS. 

     

    https://youtu.be/MQxT5-EganU



    Canadian Brass 

    Playing “Flight of the Bumblebee”

     

    See and hear a truly awesome brass quintet (2 trumpets, a trombone, a French horn and a tuba) playing really fast...and wait for the surprise at the very end! 

     

    https://youtu.be/xZO5KTJTwhE



    NY Phil - 

    3 women featured talking about their different instruments 

    https://nyphil.org/whats-new?tag=We+Are+NY+Phil

     

    NY Phil Kidzone 

    Interactive Games for students to explore - anyone interested in making their own instrument? You will find how to’s here plus lots of other fun stuff

    https://nyphil.org/education/young-peoples-concerts/young-peoples-concerts-play

     

    Cool Weird Instruments  - Parents - These are all found on youtube and are truly cool to hear. We will leave this up to your discretion to share with your child. All are 3 minutes or under. 

    Octobass 

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octobass

    Youtube listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12X-i9YHzmE&t=2s

     

    Theramin - FYI - the only instrument that is played without being touched! AND FYI FYI its the same technology that is used for things like ezpass on highways!

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theremin

    Youtube listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QgTF8p-284

     

    Alphorn - Don’t even think of carrying this to school!!!! 

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphorn

    Youtube listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_qp26NHyTg

     

    Erhu 

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erhu

    Youtube listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_qp26NHyTg

     

    Really Cool! 

    The Metropolitan Museum of Art has an extensive musical instrument collection. Many of these instruments are highly decorated, and some are just downright weird! You can see a picture of them here and hear what they sound like. 

    https://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-met/curatorial-departments/musical-instruments/art-of-music

     

     

    FOURTH and FIFTH GRADE BAND 2019-20

    SPRING CONCERT REPERTOIRE

     

     

    “Hi” to My Fourth and Fifth Grade Band Students!

    I miss you all and I hope you are all healthy and happy, and of course, practicing!

     

    (Have you hugged your instrument today?)

     

    Below, please find links to listen to and follow along with the music we are learning in Band and in our lessons. 

     

    “Assignment” -

    Choose a Song. 

    Listen to the recording, enjoying the whole ensemble. 

    Listen again and pick one instrument to listen to and follow. (it can be but doesn’t have to be your own.) Which instrument did you listen to?

    Listen one more time and play along with as much of the song as possible (even if it is only the first and last note).

    Smile :-) (That was fun!)

     

    Enjoy listening to the rest of the music for fun.

    Remember to practice your instruments...long tones, each day - beautiful sounds, always

    Good posture, full breaths in, steady out

    Work on a few measures at a time, master those, move on to the next few, add them together and soon you will have mastered the entire song! Short cuts: look for repeated sections, once you’ve learned one you’ve learned them all. :-)

     

    Watermelon Man - Herbie Hancock “Takin’ Off” 

     

    https://youtu.be/ZbHJHPTikQA

     

    25 or 6 to 4 - Chicago “Chicago II”

     

    https://youtu.be/iUAYeN3Rp2E

     

    The arrangement we are playing: 

     

    https://www.jwpepper.com/sheet-music/media-player.jsp?&type=audio&productID=2454403



    Fantasia on the Dargason

      

    You can follow along with the score - this means that you can see the music your friends are reading, too - how cool is that!

     

    https://www.jwpepper.com/Fantasia-on-the-dargason/2439453.item#.XmnxbsApDDs

     

    Imperium

     

    You can follow the score on this one, too!

     

    https://www.jwpepper.com/Imperium/2265874.item#.XmnuecApDDs