Spring Songs – Haigh
Spring Sing-A-Long Songs – Howe
1) Hello Song – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gghDRJVxFxU
2) It’s a Beautiful Day- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iw8FddccIkQ
3) Friends Song- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVCKj0T9-gc
4) Somewhere Over the Rainbow-Over the Rainbow by Newtown Children
Mother’s Day/Father’s Day Songs
1) Skidamarink – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luvKxD7EcvI&list=PLoNvFy_73k1tq7e0AIaM_JKOk4ukeuXij&index=1
2) Happy Mother’s Day – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQ-h6WCVm6Q&list=PLoNvFy_73k1tq7e0AIaM_JKOk4ukeuXij&index=2
3) Happy Mother’s Day Song #2 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8J1mzEbfYg&list=PLoNvFy_73k1tq7e0AIaM_JKOk4ukeuXij&index=3
Meet The Instruments
Meet The Instruments
The Hydraulophone
The hydraulophone is one of the rarest musical instruments in the world. This instrument is a sensory device that is primarily designed for low vision musicians. This tonal acoustic instrument is played by direct contact with water or other fluids.
The hydraulophone was described and named by Steve Mann in 2005, and patented in 2011. Typically, sound is produced by the same hydraulic fluid in contact with the player’s fingers. It has been used as a sensory exploration device for low-vision individuals.
Hydraulophone (H2Organ), Pachelbel’s canon
Two people playing hydraulophone (water pipe organ flute)
The Musical Fact Of The Week
Question
What is the most popular instrument in Africa?
Answer
Most widely spread and played instruments in Africa are the drum, the xylophone, the mbira, rattles and shakers. The one-string musical bow, played all over the continent but now nearly abandoned, was once responsible for all the vocal scales that are used today in African music.
The Mbira
Mbira, also called mbila sansa, kilembe, likembe, timbrh, or thumb piano, plucked idiophone (instrument whose sounding parts are resonant solids belonging to the body of the instrument itself)—or more specifically, a lamellaphone—that is unique to Africa and widely distributed throughout the continent.
If Bach Were From Zimbabwe—Prelude and Fugue in C on mbiras (thumb pianos)
BOB MARLEY IS THIS LOVE ON MBIRA by Alessandro Corsi
Musical Fact Of The Week
Question
What is the most important instrument in Africa?
Answer
Harps are the main stringed instrument in Africa. They are quiet instruments that usually accompany a singer/storyteller/poet. Harps in Africa date back at least 5,000 years. Today, they are mostly found just south of the Sahara desert from Mauritania on the west coast to Uganda on the east coast.
African Harps
The Bow Harp Sound. ” Adungu” In UGANDA
The Riddle Of The Week
Question
What has many ears but cannot hear?
Answer
Corn.
The Composer Of The Week
Sergei Prokofiev
Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev[n 1] (27 April [O.S. 15 April] 1891 – 5 March 1953)[n 2]
- was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor who later worked in the Soviet Union.
- Composed masterpieces across numerous music genres
- Regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century
- Important Compositions
- March from The Love for Three Oranges
- Suite Lieutenant Kijé
- Ballet Romeo and Juliet—from which “Dance of the Knights”
- Peter and the Wolf
Peter and the Wolf – Peter theme
Peter and the Wolf – grandfather theme
Peter and the Wolf – wolf theme
Peter and the Wolf – bird theme
Peter and the Wolf – cat theme