Music

Welcome Back to Term 3 MUSIC, and to Grades PREP MY, EW and PREP JG, Grades 1LK, 1KC, 1KL and 1GB, Grades 2SD, 2RG, 2HW and 2JC and Grades 3MT, 3EC and 3DC.  These classes have completed their first two lessons for Term 3 and it was great to see how many children remembered some of the material we covered last year when they were Grade PREPS, Ones and Grade Twos. Many children have not forgotten the songs, beats and chants that we learned. They also have not forgotten the MUSIC Room rules and their behaviour and manners. It is so refreshing to teach so many beautifully behaved and polite children! We welcome the PREPS to MUSIC for this year. 

This Term sees the Grade PREPS and Grade Ones playing non-tuned percussion instruments, exploring sound and silence and ways of using their voices, movement and instruments to express ideas, practising matching pitch to sing in tune and experimenting with speaking and singing voice to recognise the differences and creating long/ short/ loud and soft sounds with their voices or instruments. The Grade Prep and Grade One students will be learning/ revising the first verse of Australia's National Anthem, Advance Australia Fair. 

The Grade Twos and Threes will focus on an Australian Song unit of work, amongst other material, focusing on famous and popular Australian songs, how they came to be written, by whom and what is the history of these pieces. They will use voice and body percussion to experiment with the elements of music and create contrasting musical ideas, for example, noise and silence, faster and slower, longer and shorter, higher and lower, louder and softer and happy and sad. The Grade Twos and Threes will be focusing on the well known and much loved Australian story, song and ballad, Waltzing Matilda, written by Banjo Patterson and based on real life fact. 

Some Broadway Music Trivia for You! 

An indication of the importance of Music to our culture can be seen in the following statistics. The Lion King (the third longest running show on Broadway) has grossed more than $1.37 billion, becoming the top earning title in box office history for both stage productions and films. The record was previously held by The Phantom of the Opera, which is still the longest running show (30 record breaking years) which has more than 12, 000 performances and was still playing on Broadway in 2016 and grossed more than $1.1 billion. Wicked has grossed about $1.11 billion and counting. Perhaps there really is truth to the saying, "There's No Business Like Show Business"! 

Stay Warm this Term 

Fiona Jamieson