Mount Beauty Primary School Newsletter

Music with Emily 

Term 3, 2022

Term 3 Timetable

Music with Emily Term 3 - Fortnightly Rotating Timetable
Week 15/6 A5/6 BPrepPerformance
 
Week 24/5 A3/41/22/3
 

Musica Viva

Eastwinds are a trio ensemble based in Fremantle, Western Australia who are visiting our school to perform for us as part of the Musica Viva in Schools program.

The trio share a love of improvisation and bring their Australian, Japanese and Iranian cultures together through music. 

Esfandiar Shahmir on the mystical end-blown Persian ney (flute) and daf (frame drum), Sanshi (Yoshitaka Saegusa) on didgeridoo and Mark Cain on woodwinds and reeds.

Eastwinds weaves a difficult to define spacious tapestry of sound that finds a bridge between east and west, folk and jazz, composition and improvisation. 

The students have been familiarising themselves with their unique sound and unusual instruments in music lessons and will be learning more about improvisation and story telling through music in the coming weeks.

We are really looking forward to hearing and seeing them live next Wednesday.

 

Grades 1/2 and 2/3

Emily has been exploring pitch with students in 1/2 and 2/3, in particular, differentiating between the highs and lows.  Class 1/2 and 2/3 have used the xylophones to explore this, while 3/4 and 4/5 have used ukuleles.

 

Looking and listening to the diferences as the pitch increases and decreases.
Looking and listening to the diferences as the pitch increases and decreases.
Audible and physical pitch exercise
Audible and physical pitch exercise
Learning awareness of stick placement
Music bugs
Elbow taps
Learning awareness of stick placement
Music bugs
Elbow taps
Putting into practice what we have seen, heard, felt, and sung.
Putting into practice what we have seen, heard, felt, and sung.

Choir

Choir rehearsals are held each Wednesday, during lunchtime. It's great to see so many students from all year levels getting involved.

 

"Love is friendship set to music" 

  -Jackson Pollock