The smallest instrument ever created had to be made in a science lab it’s so miniscule. It’s called the nano harp. It’s made out of a single piece of silicon and is around 140 atoms thick.

The nanoharp is carved out of a single crystal of silicon using advanced versions of the same methods used to build tiny electronic circuits: electron beam lithography and “released silicon” technology, which refers to nanostructures that have been undercut to be freely suspended in space.

It consists of two endpieces, one square and one triangular, with several “strings” of varying lengths stretching between them. The strings are actually silicon rods 50 nm (150 atoms) in diameter, ranging from 1000 to 8000 nm in length, and the entire device is about the size of a single red blood cell.

The “Regular” Harp

The Sound of Silence | Simon & Garfunkel (Harp Cover)

The Musical Fact Of The Week

Question

What are the instruments that young kids like to play?

Answer

Think shakers, hand drums, bells, rattles, etc. These instruments are ideal; young ones can easily pick up these with their hands and start making music instantly. Benefits to children include coordination and learning how to keep rhythm.

The Lion King Medley – Hakuoh University Handbell Choir’s performance

Bourgade Bell Choir Plays ‘Someone Like You’

Riddle Of The Week

Question

What falls in winter but never gets hurt?

Answer

Snow.

Composer Of The Week

Antonio Vivaldi

Antonio Lucio Vivaldi (4 March 1678 – 28 July 1741) was an Italian^[6] Baroque composer, virtuoso violinist, teacher, impresario, and Roman Catholic priest. Born in Venice, the capital of the Venetian Republic, Vivaldi is regarded as one of the greatest Baroque composers.

Important Work

The Four Seasons

Spring. Antonio Vivaldi

21-22 – General Ed – Week Of 5/11 – 5/17

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

The Hydraulophone

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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

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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

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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

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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

Peter and the Wolf – duck theme

Peter and the Wolf – hunters theme

21-22 – General Ed – Week of 4/27 – 5/10

Sing-A-Long Songs For Howe – Theme is Spring/Friendship–

Spring Songs For Haigh

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

Riddle Of The Week

The Riddle Of The Week

Question

You will buy me to eat but never eat me. What am I?

Answer

A plate.

21-22 – General Ed – Week of 4/13 – 4/19

Spring Songs

Theme is Spring/Friendship–

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) Skinamarink – 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

21-22 – General Ed – Week of 4/6 – 4/12

Meet The Instruments

The Percussion Family

The Xylophone

The xylophone (from Ancient Greek ξύλον (xúlon) ‘wood’, and φωνή (phōnḗ) ‘sound, voice’;^[1]^[2] lit. ’sound of wood’) is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars struck by mallets. Like the glockenspiel, the xylophone essentially consists of a set of tuned keys arranged in the fashion of the keyboard of a piano. Each bar is an idiophone tuned to a pitch of a musical scale, whether pentatonic or heptatonic in the case of many African and Asian instruments, diatonic in many western children’s instruments, or chromatic for orchestral use.

The term xylophone may be used generally, to include all such instruments such as the marimba, balafon and even the semantron. However, in the orchestra, the term xylophone refers specifically to a chromatic instrument of somewhat higher pitch range and drier timbre than the marimba, and these two instruments should not be confused. A person who plays the xylophone is known as a xylophonist or simply a xylophone player.^[3]

The term is also popularly used to refer to similar instruments of the lithophone and metallophone types. For example, the Pixiphone and many similar toys described by the makers as xylophones have bars of metal rather than of wood, and so are in organology regarded as glockenspiels rather than as xylophones.

The Golden Age of the Xylophone

“Outro”: Hilton College Competition Marimba Band- own composition

The Musical Fact Of The Week

Question

What is the most popular sing along song?

Answer

The 12 Best Sing-Along Songs

Dancing Queen – ABBA.
I Will Survive – Gloria Gaynor.
I Wanna Dance With Somebody – Whitney Houston.
Love Shack – B52s.
Build Me Up Buttercup – The Foundations.
Hey Jude – The Beatles.
I Think We’re Alone Now – Tiffany.
Don’t Stop Believin’ – Journey.

Tyros 5 – ABBA – Dancing Queen (Instrumental) Cover

The Foundations /// Build Me Up, Buttercup /// Piano Cover

The Riddle Of The Week

Question

What’s the capital of France?

Answer

The letter “F.” It’s the only capital letter in France.

The Composer Of The Week

Ludwig van Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven (/ˈlʊdvɪɡ væn ˈbeɪtoʊvən/ (listen), German: [ˈluːtvɪç fan ˈbeːtˌhoːfn̩] (listen); baptised 17 December 1770 – 26 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. Beethoven remains one of the most admired composers in the history of Western music; his works rank amongst the most performed of the classical music repertoire and span the transition from the Classical period to the Romantic era in classical music. His career has conventionally been divided into early, middle, and late periods. His early period, during which he forged his craft, is typically considered to have lasted until 1802. From 1802 to around 1812, his middle period showed an individual development from the styles of Joseph Haydn and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and is sometimes characterized as heroic. During this time, he began to suffer increasingly from deafness. In his late period, from 1812 to 1827, he extended his innovations in musical form and expression.

Beethoven – Für Elise

Beethoven: Minuet in G Major, WoO 10, No. 2

21-22 – General Ed – Week of 3/16 – 3/22

Meet The Instruments

The Percussion Family

The Gong

A gong^{[note 1]} is a percussion instrument originating in East Asia and Southeast Asia. Gongs are a flat, circular metal disc that is typically struck with a mallet. They can be small or large in size, and tuned or untuned.

The earliest mention of gongs can be found in sixth century Chinese records, which mentioned the instrument to have come from the Western Regions (a region covering modern day Tibet, Xinjiang, and Central Asia). The term gong (Javanese: ꦒꦺꦴꦁ) originated in the Indonesian island of Java. Scientific and archaeological research has established that Burma, China, Java and Annam were the four main gong manufacturing centres of the ancient world.^[1] The gong found its way into the Western World in the 18th century, when it was also used in the percussion section of a Western-style symphony orchestra.^[^{citation needed}^] A form of bronze cauldron gong known as a resting bell was widely used in ancient Greece and Rome: for instance in the famous Oracle of Dodona, where disc gongs were also used.^[2]^[3]

Gongs broadly fall into one of three types: Suspended gongs are more or less flat, circular discs of metal suspended vertically by means of a cord passed through holes near to the top rim. Bossed gongs have a raised centre boss, or knob, and are often suspended and played horizontally. Bowl gongs are bowl-shaped and rest on cushions. The latter may be considered a member of the bell category. Gongs are made mainly from bronze or brass but there are many other alloys in use.

Gongs produce two distinct types of sound. A gong with a substantially flat surface vibrates in multiple modes, giving a “crash” rather than a tuned note. This category of gong is sometimes called a tam-tam to distinguish it from the bossed gongs that give a tuned note. In Indonesian gamelan ensembles, some bossed gongs are deliberately made to generate in addition a beat note in the range from about 1 to 5 Hz. The use of the term “gong” for both these types of instrument is common.

32″ Chinese Chau Gong – Sound Healing Meditation – The Gong Shop

The gong ageng (or gong gedhe in Ngoko Javanese, means large gong) is an Indonesian musical instrument used in the Javanese gamelan. It is the largest of the bronze gongs in the Javanese and Balinese gamelan orchestra and the only large gong that is called gong in Javanese.^[1] Unlike the more famous Chinese or Turkish tam-tams, Indonesian gongs have fixed, focused pitch, and are dissimilar to the familiar crash cymbal sound. It is circular, with a conical, tapering base of diameter smaller than gong face, with a protruding polished boss where it is struck by a padded mallet. Gongs with diameter as large as 135 centimeters (53 inches) have been created in the past, but gongs larger than about 80 centimeters (31 inches) are more common especially to suit the budget of educational institutions.^[2]

gamelan gong kebyar

The Musical Fact Of The Week

Question

What is an important musical fact to know?

Answer

Americans spend more than four hours a day listening to music. “Lose Yourself” by Eminem is the first rap song to win an Oscar. The most expensive musical instrument in the world is a Stradivarius violin, with one being sold for $15.9 million. A person’s heartbeat mimics the beat of the music he or she is listening to.

The Stradivarius Violin

A Stradivarius is one of the violins, violas, cellos and other string instruments built by members of the Italian family Stradivari, particularly Antonio Stradivari (Latin: Antonius Stradivarius), during the 17th and 18th centuries.

According to their reputation, the quality of their sound has defied attempts to explain or equal it, though this belief is disputed.^[1]^[2]^[3] The many blind experiments from 1817^[4]^[5] to as recent as 2014^[2]^[6]^[1]) have never found any difference in sound between Stradivari’s violins and high-quality violins in comparable style of other makers and periods, nor has acoustic analysis.^[7]^[8]

Eminem – Lose Yourself (VIOLIN COVER) – N I M A

Riddle Of The Week

Question

Which word becomes shorter when you add 2 letters to it?

Answer

The word “short.”

Composer Of The Week

Caroline Shaw

Caroline Adelaide Shaw (born August 1, 1982) is an American composer, violinist, and singer. She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2013 for her a cappella piece Partita for 8 Voices.

Shaw was born in Greenville, North Carolina, and began playing the violin when she was two years old. Her mother was her first teacher. She began writing music when she was 10 years old, mostly in imitation of the chamber music of Mozart and Brahms. At the time, her main focus was on violin performance. Shaw received her Bachelor of Music (violin performance) from Rice University in 2004, and her master’s degree (violin) from Yale University in 2007. She entered the PhD program in composition in Princeton University in 2010.

Compositions

Voice

Solo Instrument

Chamber Ensemble

Orchestra

Multimedia

Film Score

Thousandth Orange by Caroline Shaw

Caroline Shaw: Entr’acte • Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra

21-22 – General Ed – Week of 3/9 – 3/15

Meet The Instruments

The Percussion Family

The Snare Drum

The snare drum or side drum is a percussion instrument that produces a sharp staccato sound when the head is struck with a drum stick, due to the use of a series of stiff wires held under tension against the lower skin. Snare drums are often used in orchestras, concert bands, marching bands, parades, drumlines, drum corps, and more. It is one of the central pieces in a drum set, a collection of percussion instruments designed to be played by a seated drummer and used in many genres of music.

Snare drums are usually played with drum sticks, but other beaters such as the brush or the rute can be used to achieve different tones. The snare drum is a versatile and expressive percussion instrument due to its sensitivity and responsiveness. The sensitivity of the snare drum allows it to respond audibly to the softest strokes, even with a wire brush; as well, it can be used for complex rhythmic patterns and engaging solos at moderate volumes. Its high dynamic range allows the player to produce powerful accents with vigorous strokes and a thundering crack (120+ dB) when rimshot strokes are used.

The snare drum originates from the tabor, a drum first used to accompany the flute. The tabor evolved into more modern versions, such as the kit snare, marching snare, tarol snare, and piccolo snare.^[1] Each type presents a different style of percussion and size. The snare drum that one might see in a popular music concert is usually used in a backbeat style to create rhythm. In marching bands, it can do the same but is used mostly for a front beat.^[^{citation needed}^] In comparison with the marching snare, the kit snare is generally smaller in length, while the piccolo is the smallest of the three. The snare drum is easily recognizable by its loud cracking sound when struck firmly with a drumstick or mallet. The depth of the sound varies from snare to snare because of the different techniques and construction qualities of the drum. Some of these qualities are head material and tension, dimensions, and rim and drum shell materials and construction.

The snare drum is constructed of two heads—both usually made of Mylar plastic in modern drums but historically made from calf or goat skin—along with a rattle of metal, plastic, nylon, or gut wires on the bottom head called the snares. The wires can also be placed on the top, as in the tarol snare, or both heads as in the case of the Highland snare drum. The top head is typically called the batter head because that is where the drummer strikes it, while the bottom head is called the snare head because that is where the snares are located. The tension of each head is held constant by tension rods or ropes. Tension rod adjustment allows the pitch and tonal character of the drum to be customized by the player. The strainer is a lever that engages or disengages contact between the snares and the head, and allows snare tension adjustment. If the strainer is disengaged, the sound of the drum resembles a tom because the snares are inactive. The rim is the metal or wooden ring around the batter head that holds the head onto the drum and provides tension to the head, which can be used for a variety of things, although it is notably used to sound a piercing rimshot with the drumstick when the head and rim are struck together with a single stick.

UNT Snare Drum Line: Bryce Gardner – Blue Sparkled Bungalow (2016)

Tantrum for Snare Drum solo Kevin Bobo

The Musical Fact Of The Week

Question

What is one of the unusual instruments from around the world?

Answer

Cajon

You may have heard of cajons before, but they definitely have their place on this list as they were originally used in native Peruvian music. They’ve made their way over to modern western music in recent times, and you’ll find many percussionists playing them in acoustic settings with guitars or pianos.

You play the cajon by sitting on top of it and hitting the front end with your hands. The front part has a thin layer of plywood that produces a slapping sound when you hit it near the edge. The sound is a bit warmer and round when the wood is struck in the middle. This gives you a snare and bass drum effect.

Modern Cajon Solo /// Drum & Bass Style /// DADDI BAHMANI

Incredible Cajon Performance on NYC Streets

Riddle Of The Week

Question

What 2 things can you never eat for breakfast?

Answer

Lunch and dinner.

Composer Of The Week

Boghos Gelalian

Boghos Gelalian (1927-2011), an Armenian-Syrian composer who lived in Lebanon, was nicknamed “Batrak” (Patriarch) for his knowledge of and devotion to music. Gelalian’s compositions are largely devoted to piano and chamber music. Alongside his compositions for piano (Sonatine, Sonata per Pianoforte, Tre Cicli, Canzona Toccata, transcription of Chaconne by Bach, and the Choral “Jesus, may my joy remain”), there are also musical pieces for violin, cello, a toccata for organ, two vocalises for soprano, an Elegy for cello, and “Poem” and “Perpetual Motion” for violin. Also remarkable are four variations for solo English horn, four games for solo flute, and especially the seven sequences for orchestra (Editions Peters, Leipzig). Gelalian was also often solicited to participate in the Baalbek International Festivals, to harmonize and orchestrate music such as songs and dabke music, a task he undertook with great sincerity and attention to detail.

DILIJAN CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES – Boghos Gelalian – Sept Sequences (1966-67)

Boghos Gelalian, Sonata per Piano Forte, Mov 1

21-22 – General Ed – Week of 3/2 – 3/8

Meet The Instruments

The Percussion Family

The Timpani Drum

Timpani (/ˈtɪmpəni/;^[2] Italian pronunciation: [ˈtimpani]) or kettledrums (also informally called timps)^[2] are musical instruments in the percussion family. A type of drum categorised as a hemispherical drum, they consist of a membrane called a head stretched over a large bowl traditionally made of copper. Thus timpani are an example of kettle drums, also known as vessel drums and semispherical drums, whose body is similar to a section of a sphere whose cut conforms the head. Most modern timpani are pedal timpani and can be tuned quickly and accurately to specific pitches by skilled players through the use of a movable foot-pedal. They are played by striking the head with a specialized drum stick called a timpani stick or timpani mallet. Timpani evolved from military drums to become a staple of the classical orchestra by the last third of the 18th century. Today, they are used in many types of ensembles, including concert bands, marching bands, orchestras, and even in some rock bands.

Timpani is an Italian plural, the singular of which is timpano. However, in English the term timpano is only widely in use by practitioners: several are more typically referred to collectively as kettledrums, timpani, temple drums, or timps. They are also often incorrectly termed timpanis. A musician who plays timpani is a timpanist.

TIMPANI SOLO, ETUDE #1 – SCHERZO BY TOM FREER

Michael Daugherty: “Raise the Roof”for Timpani and Symphonic Band

The Musical Fact Of The Week

Question

What is the most popular percussion instrument?

Answer

Among the most popular percussion instruments are drum kits and tambourine.

The drum kit is a complex musical instrument consisting of several different percussion instruments played by the drummer. The instruments surround the drummer, who plays while sitting down in a structure that allows simultaneous action of up to four percussions, using hands and feet.

A tambourine looks like small, portable drum formed by a membrane wrapped tightly on a metal plate, with attached metal jingles (zills)all around. The sound is obtained by striking the membrane gently, with your bare hand and agitating the tambourine through the air. It is used in many traditional, classic and modern music styles.

The Tambourine

Edoardo Giachino Mr Tambourine Man Tamburello Basco

Tambourine Solo / Demo – Advanced Techniques – Meinl Percussion – TMT1 Steel Jingles Tambourine

Riddle Of The Week

Question

I have a tail and a head, but no body. What am I?

Answer

A coin.

Composer Of The Week

Julia Perry

Life and education[edit]

Born in Lexington, Kentucky, as a child Perry moved with her family to Akron, Ohio.^[3] She went on to study voice, piano, and composition at the Westminster Choir College 1943–48. It was there that she received her B.M. and M.M. She continued on to her graduate studies at Berkshire Music Center in Tanglewood, where she was a student of Luigi Dallapiccola, and then later studied at the Juilliard School of Music. Around this time she was awarded her first Guggenheim Fellowship.

In 1952, Perry began studying under Nadia Boulanger in Paris, during which time she was awarded the Boulanger Grand Prix for her Viola Sonata. Soon after she was awarded her second Guggenheim Fellowship,^[4] which she used to return to Italy and continue her studies with Dallapiccola.

Perry also studied conducting at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena during the summers of 1956 and 1957, and in 1957 was sponsored by the U.S. Information Service to conduct a series of concerts in Europe.

After a total of five and a half years in Europe, Julia Perry returned to America and continued her work in composition. On return she also took up teaching at Tallahassee’s Florida Agricultural and Mechanical College in 1967 and was also a visiting artist at Atlanta College.

Perry is buried in Glendale Cemetery in Akron, Ohio; the birth year on her tombstone, 1927, is incorrect.^[3]

Works and compositions[edit]

Some of Julia Perry’s early compositions are heavily influenced by African American music. In 1951 Free at Last and I’m a Poor Li’l Orphan were published, both of which showcased her incorporation of black spiritual music. She also composed Song of Our Savior for the Hampton Institute Choir, which used Dorian mode and a hummed ostinato with call and response phrases throughout the piece.^[5]

In other works, Perry began branching out in her composition technique and experimenting with dissonance. One of her most notable works, Stabat Mater (1951), is composed for solo contralto and string orchestra.^[6] It incorporates dissonance, but remains within the classification of tonal music. These pieces incorporate more modern compositional techniques, such as quartal harmony, which voices chords in fourths rather than thirds and fifths. It was recorded on CRI, by the Japan Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, William Strickland, conducting.^[7]^[8]

Other instrumental works by Julia Perry include Requiem for Orchestra (also known as Homage to Vivaldi because of themes inspired by composer Antonio Vivaldi), a number of shorter orchestral works; several types of chamber music; a violin concerto; twelve symphonies; and two piano concertos. Her vocal works include a three-act opera and The Symplegades, which was based on the 17th century Salem witchcraft panic. The opera took more than ten years to write. She also composed an operatic ballet with her own libretto, based on Oscar Wilde’s fable The Selfish Giant, and in 1976 composed Five Quixotic Songs for bass baritone in and Bicentennial Reflections for tenor solo in ’77.^[5]

Julia Perry’s early compositions focused mostly on works written for voice, however, she gradually began to write more instrumental compositions later in life. By the time she suffered from a stroke in 1971, she had written twelve symphonies.

Below is a non-comprehensive list of compositions.^[9]

Julia Perry: A Short Piece for Orchestra

Julia Perry – Prelude for Piano

Music – February 23 – 25

Meet The Instruments

The Percussion Family

The Bass Drum

The bass drum, or kick drum, is a large drum that produces a note of low definite or indefinite pitch. The instrument is typically cylindrical, with the drum’s diameter much greater than the drum’s depth, with a struck head at both ends of the cylinder. The heads may be made of calfskin or plastic and there is normally a means of adjusting the tension either by threaded taps or by strings. Bass drums are built in a variety of sizes, but size does not dictate the volume produced by the drum. The pitch and the sound can vary much with different sizes,^[2] but the size is also chosen based on convenience and aesthetics. Bass drums are percussion instruments and vary in size and are used in several musical genres. Three major types of bass drums can be distinguished.

The type usually seen or heard in orchestral, ensemble or concert band music is the orchestral, or concert bass drum (in Italian: gran cassa, gran tamburo). It is the largest drum of the orchestra.
The kick drum, a term for a bass drum associated with a drum kit, which is much smaller than the above-mentioned bass drum. It is struck with a beater attached to a pedal, usually seen on drum kits.
The pitched bass drum, generally used in marching bands and drum corps, is tuned to a specific pitch and is usually played in a set of three to six drums.

In many forms of music, the bass drum is used to mark or keep time. The bass drum makes a low, boom sound when the mallet hits the drumhead. In marches, it is used to project tempo (marching bands historically march to the beat of the bass). A basic beat for rock and roll has the bass drum played on the first and third beats of bars in common time, with the snare drum on the second and fourth beats, called backbeats. In jazz, the bass drum can vary from almost entirely being a timekeeping medium to being a melodic voice in conjunction with the other parts of the set.

The earliest known predecessor to the bass drum was the Turkish davul, a cylindrical drum that featured two thin heads. The heads were stretched over hoops and then attached to a narrow shell.^[3]^[4] To play this instrument, a person would strike the right side of the davul with a large wooden stick, while the left side would be struck with a rod.^[5] When struck, the davul produced a sound much deeper than that of the other drums in existence. Because of this unique tone, davuls were used extensively in war and combat, where a deep and percussive sound was needed to ensure that the forces were marching in proper step with one another.^[6] The military bands of the Ottoman Janissaries in the 18th century were one of the first groups to utilize davuls in their music; Ottoman marching songs often had a heavy emphasis on percussion, and their military bands were primarily made up of davul, cymbal and kettle drum players.^[5]

Davuls were ideal for use as military instruments because of the unique way in which they could be carried. The Ottoman janissaries, for example, hung their davuls at their breasts with thick straps.^[3] This made it easier for the soldiers to carry their instruments from battle to battle. This practice does not seem to be limited to just the Ottoman Empire, however; in Egypt, drums very similar to davuls were braced with cords, which allowed the Egyptian soldiers to carry them during military movements.^[3]

The davul, however, was also used extensively in non-military music. For example, davuls were a major aspect of Turkish folk dances.^[7] In Ottoman society, davul and shawm players would perform together in groups called davul-zurnas, or drum and shawm circles.^[7]

Verdi Requiem Bass Drum Hits

Concerto for Bass Drum and Orchestra by Gabriel Prokofiev – Nikolaus Keelaghan

Information About the Concerto for Bass Drum and Orchestra by Gabriel Prokofiev – Nikolaus Keelaghan

The Concerto for Bass Drum and Orchestra is the first Concerto written for a Bass Drum.

Concerto for Bass Drum & Orchestra was jointly commissioned by Princeton Symphony Orchestra and the London Contemporary Orchestra. The first performance was given on 9th February in Alexander Hall, Princeton, NJ, USA by Joby Burgess (solo bass drum) and the Princeton Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Rossen Milanov.

Also known as the la Grancassa (Italian), basstrommel (German), and la Grosse Caisse (French) -which can literally be translated as ‘fat drum’ (or even ‘phat drum’). It produces the lowest frequencies of the Orchestra, and is used to create some of the most thunderous climaxes, but it’s never been considered as a ‘solo’ instrument or been given a Concerto. As it’s un-pitched, and on the surface seems quite a limited instrument, that’s not surprising; but back in 2011 I perversely thought it would be interesting to attempt to compose a Concerto for Bass Drum… in February 2012 after 3-4 months of composing, and a few hours of rehearsing it was premiered by British percussion virtuoso Joby Burgess with Princeton Symphony (conducted by Rossen Milanov) in Princeton, New Jersery on 9th Feb 2012; then performed by The Chicago Composers Orchestra on 21st Feb (conducted by Matthew Kasper); and had it’s European premier with the London Contemporary Orchestra (conducted by Hugh Brunt) in the Roundhouse, Camden, on 3rd March 2012.

Reading Buccaneers Bass Drums 2018 – Ridiculous Moeller Split

The Musical Fact Of The Week

Question

Where was the first bass drum made?

Answer

The bass drum or kick drum originated in Turkey. Its precursor is the davul, a cylindrical drum with two drum heads, each head hit with two different sticks – one stick with no padding and one rod held very flat. It gave a deeper sound than most traditional drums.

Professional Turkish Drum Davul SD-303

Riddle Of The Week

Question

You’re running a race and at the very end, you pass the person in 2nd place. What place did you finish the race in?

Answer

You finished in 2nd place.

Composer Of The Week

Name

Clara Shumann

Clara Josephine Schumann ([ˈklaːʁa ˈʃuːman]; née Wieck; 13 September 1819 – 20 May 1896) was a German pianist, composer, and piano teacher. Regarded as one of the most distinguished pianists of the Romantic era, she exerted her influence over a 61-year concert career, changing the format and repertoire of the piano recital from displays of virtuosity to programs of serious works. She also composed solo piano pieces, a piano concerto (her Op. 7), chamber music, choral pieces, and songs.

She grew up in Leipzig, where her father, Friedrich Wieck, was a pianist and teacher, and her mother, Mariane, was a pianist, singer, and piano teacher. She was a child prodigy, trained by her father. She began touring at age eleven, and was successful in Paris and Vienna, among other cities. She married the composer Robert Schumann, and the couple had eight children. Together, they encouraged Johannes Brahms and maintained a close relationship with him. She premiered many works by her husband and by Brahms in public.

Isata Kanneh-Mason | Clara Schumann‘s Scherzo No.2 in C Minor | Classic FM Session

Schumann Piano Quintet in Eb, Op.44 슈만 피아노 퀸텟 작품 44 The Felix Trio 더 펠릭스 트리오

Music – January 14 – 17

Meet The Instruments

The Brass Family

The Sousaphone

The sousaphone (US: /ˈsuːzəfoʊn/) is a brass instrument in the same family as the more widely known tuba. Created around 1893 by J.W. Pepper at the direction of American bandleader John Philip Sousa (after whom the instrument was then named), it was designed to be easier to play than the concert tuba while standing or marching, as well as to carry the sound of the instrument above the heads of the band. Like the tuba, sound is produced by moving air past the lips, causing them to vibrate or “buzz” into a large cupped mouthpiece. Unlike the tuba, the instrument is bent in a circle to fit around the body of the musician; it ends in a large, flaring bell that is pointed forward, projecting the sound ahead of the player. Because of the ease of carrying and the direction of sound, it is widely employed in marching bands, as well as various other musical genres. Sousaphones were originally made out of brass but in the mid-20th century started to be made from lighter materials like fiberglass; today both types are in wide use.

The sousaphone is named after John Philip Sousa (1854-1932), who had early sousaphones made according to his specifications in the late nineteenth century.

Sousaphone Flight of the Bumblebee with Patrick Sheridan

Transformers/Earthquake

Musical Fact Of The Week

Question

How old was Mozart when he started playing music?

Answer

Mozart was a child prodigy. His father—a talented violinist—taught him basic notes on the harpsichord. Mozart composed his first piece of music in 1761, at age five; by age six, he had performed before two imperial courts – relating to an empire or an emperor.

Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart

He is also known as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Eine Kleine Nachtmusik – Mozart

Mozart ‘s Greatest Violin Piece

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart,Violin Concerto No. 5 in A, 2nd Movement..

Riddle Of The Week

Question

There’s only one word in the dictionary that’s spelled wrong. What is it?

Answer

The word “wrong.” It’s the only word that’s spelled W-R-O-N-G.

21-22 – General Ed – Week of 1/25 – 1/31

Meet The Instruments

The Brass Family

The Trombone

The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family. As with all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player’s vibrating lips (embouchure) cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate. Unlike most other brass instruments, which have valves that, when pressed, alter the pitch of the instrument, trombones instead have a telescoping slide mechanism that varies the length of the instrument to change the pitch. However, many modern trombone models also have a valve attachment which lowers the pitch of the instrument. Variants such as the valve trombone and superbone have three valves similar to those on the trumpet.

The word “trombone” derives from Italian Tromba (trumpet) and -one (a suffix meaning “large”), so the name means “large trumpet”. The trombone has a predominantly cylindrical bore like its valved counterpart, the baritone, in contrast to its conical valved counterparts: the cornet, the euphonium, and the French horn. The most frequently encountered trombones are the tenor trombone and bass trombone. These are treated as non-transposing instruments and are pitched in B♭, an octave below the B♭ trumpet and an octave above the pedal B♭ tuba. The once common E♭ alto trombone became less widely used as improvements in technique extended the upper range of the tenor, but it is now resurging due to its lighter sonority which is appreciated in many classical and early romantic works. Trombone music is usually written in concert pitch in either bass or tenor clef, although exceptions do occur, notably in British brass-band music where the tenor trombone is presented as a B♭ transposing instrument, written in treble clef; and the alto trombone is written at concert pitch usually in alto clef.

A person who plays the trombone is called a trombonist or trombone player.

Bolero Trombone Solo

Imagine Dragons- Believer (Trombone Cover)

Musical Fact Of The Week

Question

How old is the piano?

Answer

The piano was invented by Bartolomeo Cristofori (1655-1731) of Italy. Cristofori was unsatisfied by the lack of control that musicians had over the volume level of the harpsichord. He is credited for switching out the plucking mechanism with a hammer to create the modern piano in around the year 1700.

This is called the Grand Piano.

Mulan – Reflection (Viola & Piano Cover by Tiffany Chang)

Riddle Of The Week

Question

Kate’s mother has three children: Snap, Crackle and ___?

Answer

Answer: Kate! It’s Kate’s mother, after all. (This is a good example of how riddles use your existing expectations to trick you. Even though the answer is right in front of you, you’re tempted to continue the pattern instead.)

21-22 – General Ed – Week of 1/18 – 1/21

Meet The Instruments

The Brass Family

The Trumpet

The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet with the highest register in the brass family, to the bass trumpet, which is pitched one octave below the standard B♭ or C Trumpet.

Trumpet-like instruments have historically been used as signaling devices in battle or hunting, with examples dating back to at least 1500 BC. They began to be used as musical instruments only in the late 14th or early 15th century.^[1] Trumpets are used in art music styles, for instance in orchestras, concert bands, and jazz ensembles, as well as in popular music. They are played by blowing air through nearly-closed lips (called the player’s embouchure), producing a “buzzing” sound that starts a standing wave vibration in the air column inside the instrument.^[2] Since the late 15th century, trumpets have primarily been constructed of brass tubing, usually bent twice into a rounded rectangular shape.^[3]

There are many distinct types of trumpet, with the most common being pitched in B♭ (a transposing instrument), having a tubing length of about 1.48 m (4 ft 10 in). Early trumpets did not provide means to change the length of tubing, whereas modern instruments generally have three (or sometimes four) valves in order to change their pitch. Most trumpets have valves of the piston type, while some have the rotary type. The use of rotary-valved trumpets is more common in orchestral settings (especially in German and German-style orchestras), although this practice varies by country. A musician who plays the trumpet is called a trumpet player or trumpeter.^[4]

“Adele – Easy on Me ” (Play with Me n.68) – Andrea Giuffredi trumpet

Memory from cats – Peter Roberts

Question

What is the most popular musical?

Answer

The Lion King

Worldwide revenue

Rank	Musical	Gross revenue (US$)
1	The Lion King	$8,251,556,700
2	The Phantom of the Opera	$6,060,000,000
3	Mamma Mia!	$4,000,000,000
4	Cats	$3,565,624,091

The Lion King – I Just Can’t Wait To Be King (1080p)

Elton John – Can You Feel the Love Tonight (From “The Lion King”/Official Video)

Riddle Of The Week

Question

It belongs to you, but your friends use it more. What is it?

Answer

Your Name

21-22 – General Ed – Week of 1/3/22 – 1/7/22

String Family

The Harp

The harp is a stringed musical instrument that has a number of individual strings running at an angle to its soundboard; the strings are plucked with the fingers. Harps can be made and played in various ways, including standing or sitting and in orchestras or concerts. Its most common form is triangular in shape and made of wood. Some have multiple rows of strings and pedal attachments.

Ancient depictions of harps were recorded in current day Iraq (Mesopotamia), Iran (Persia) and Egypt and later in India and China. By medieval times harps had spread across Europe. Harps were found across the Americas where it was a popular folk tradition in some areas. Distinct designs also emerged from the African continent. Harps have symbolic political traditions and are often used in logos, including in Ireland.

Harps have been known since antiquity in Asia, Africa and Europe, dating back at least as early as 3000 BCE. The instrument had great popularity in Europe during the Middle Ages and Renaissance, where it evolved into a wide range of variants with new technologies, and was disseminated to Europe’s colonies, finding particular popularity in Latin America.

Although some ancient members of the harp family died out in the Near East and South Asia, descendants of early harps are still played in Myanmar and parts of Africa; other variants defunct in Europe and Asia have been used by folk musicians in the modern era.

Korok Forest (from The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild) // Amy Turk

“Perfect” by Ed Sheeran | Harp Cover (Wedding)

Musical Fact Of The Week

Question

What is the most popular song of all time?

According to Guinness World Records, Irving Berlin‘s “White Christmas” (1942) as performed by Bing Crosby is the best-selling single worldwide, with estimated sales of over 50 million copies.

Bing Crosby – White Christmas (1942) Original Version

Riddle Of The Week

1. How many months of the year have 28 days?

Answer

All of them! Every month has *at least* 28 days.

21-22 – GE – Week of 11/1 – 11/5

Instrument of the Week

The Woodwind Family

The Ocarina

The ocarina is a wind musical instrument—a type of vessel flute.^[1] Variations exist, but a typical ocarina is an enclosed space with four to twelve finger holes and a mouthpiece that projects from the body. It is traditionally made from clay or ceramic, but other materials are also used—such as plastic, wood, glass, metal, or bone.

The ocarina belongs to a very old family of instruments, believed to date back over 12,000 years.^[2] Ocarina-type instruments have been of particular importance in Chinese and Mesoamerican cultures. For the Chinese, the instrument played an important role in their long history of song and dance. The ocarina has similar features to the Xun (塤), another important Chinese instrument (but is different in that the ocarina uses an internal duct, whereas the Xun is blown across the outer edge).^[3] In Japan, the traditional ocarina is known as the tsuchibue (kanji: 土笛; literally “earthen flute”), whereas “ocarina” comes from the Italian for “little goose”. Different expeditions to Mesoamerica, including the one conducted by Cortés, resulted in the introduction of the ocarina to the courts of Europe. Both the Mayans and Aztecs produced versions of the ocarina, but it was the Aztecs who brought to Europe the song and dance that accompanied the ocarina. The ocarina went on to become popular in European communities as a toy instrument.^[1^]

Ocarina, c. 1900, Museu de la Música de Barcelona

One of the oldest ocarinas found in Europe is from Runik, Kosovo. The Runik ocarina is a Neolithic flute-like wind instrument, and is the earliest prehistoric musical instrument ever recorded in Kosovo.^[^4] The modern European ocarina dates back to the 19th century, when Giuseppe Donati from Budrio, a town near Bologna, Italy, transformed the ocarina from a toy, which played only a few notes, into a more comprehensive instrument (known as the first “classical” ocarina). The word ocarina in the Bolognese dialect of the Emiliano-Romagnolo language means “little goose.” The earlier form was known in Europe as a gemshorn, which was made from animal horns of the chamois (Dutch: gems).^[5]

In 1964, John Taylor, an English mathematician, developed a fingering system that allowed an ocarina to play a full chromatic octave using only four holes.^[1] This is now known as the English fingering system, and is used extensively for pendant ocarinas. It is also used in several multi-chamber ocarinas, especially in ones that are designed to play more than one note at a time.

The ocarina features prominently in both NES and Nintendo 64 games, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time,The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask and Earthbound Beginnings. The games have been credited for increasing the popularity of ocarinas and the sale of them.^[6] In the 1953 Finnish children’s book Tirlittan, the title character also plays an ocarina.^[7]

The Hobbit – Misty Mountains Cold on STL Ocarina

Believer – Imagine Dragons – Ocarina Cover || David Erick Ramos

Musical Fact Of The Week

Question

Which rock band is the most popular ever?

Answer

^{The Beatles}^{, Led Zeppelin, and the Eagles sold the most albums, as measured by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).}

Here comes the sun with lyrics The Beatles

The Beatles Hello, Goodbye ( Lyrics )

KIDZ BOP Kids – Get The Party Started (Dance Along) [KIDZ BOP All-Time Greatest Hits]

KIDZ BOP – Dynamite #Shorts

Lyrics: “For the First Time in Forever” (Disney’s Frozen)

I am repeating this lessons to ensure that all of my students receive the same information as many of my students were missing from our Zoom meetings at Howe.

21-22 – Special Ed – Week of 10/18 – 10/22

Instrument of the Week

The Woodwind Family

The Saxophone

The saxophone is a type of single-reed woodwind instrument with a conical body, usually made of brass. As with all single-reed instruments, sound is produced when a reed on a mouthpiece vibrates to produce a sound wave inside the instrument’s body. The pitch is controlled by opening and closing holes in the body to change the effective length of the tube.^[2] The holes are closed by leather pads attached to keys operated by the player. Saxophones are made in various sizes and are almost always treated as transposing instruments. Saxophone players are called saxophonists.^[3]

The saxophone was invented by the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax in the early 1840s^[4] and was patented on 28 June 1846. Sax invented two groups of seven instruments each—one group contained instruments in C and F, and the other group contained instruments in B♭ and E♭. The B♭ and E♭ instruments soon became dominant and most saxophones encountered today are from this series. Instruments from the series pitched in C and F never gained a foothold and constituted only a small percentage of instruments made by Sax. High Pitch (also marked “H” or “HP”) saxophones tuned sharper than the (concert) A = 440 Hz standard were produced into the early twentieth century for sonic qualities suited for outdoor use, but are not playable to modern tuning and are considered obsolete. Low Pitch (also marked “L” or “LP”) saxophones are equivalent in tuning to modern instruments. C soprano and C melody saxophones were produced for the casual market as parlor instruments during the early twentieth century, and saxophones in F were introduced during the late 1920s but never gained acceptance. The modern saxophone family consists entirely of B♭ and E♭ instruments. The saxophones in widest use are the B♭ soprano, E♭ alto, B♭ tenor, and E♭ baritone. The E♭ sopranino and B♭ bass saxophone are typically used in larger saxophone choir settings, when available.

#	Saxophone	Key	Sounds an octave lower than	Sounds an octave higher than
1	Sopranissimo	B♭	##	Soprano
2	Sopranino	E♭	##	Alto
3	Soprano	B♭	Sopranissimo	Tenor
4	Alto	E♭	Sopranino	Baritone
5	Tenor	B♭	Soprano	Bass
6	Baritone	E♭	Alto	Contrabass
7	Bass	B♭	Tenor	Subcontrabass
8	Contrabass	E♭	Baritone	##
9	Subcontrabass	B♭	Bass	##

“DANCE MONKEY” – STREET SAX PERFORMANCE

La Pantera Rosa ”PINK PANTHER THEME” Saxophone Cover

Meet The Instruments

The Woodwind Family

The English Horn

The cor anglais (UK: /ˌkɔːr ˈɒŋɡleɪ/, US: /- ɑːŋˈɡleɪ/^[1]^[2] or original French: [kɔʁ ɑ̃ɡlɛ];^[3] plural: cors anglais), or English horn in North America, is a double-reed woodwind instrument in the oboe family. It is approximately one and a half times the length of an oboe.

The cor anglais is a transposing instrument pitched in F, a perfect fifth lower than the oboe (a C instrument). This means that music for the cor anglais is written a perfect fifth higher than the instrument sounds. The fingering and playing technique used for the cor anglais are essentially the same as those of the oboe, and oboists typically double on the cor anglais when required. The cor anglais normally lacks the lowest B♭ key found on most oboes, and so its sounding range stretches from E₃ (written B♮) below middle C to C₆ two octaves above middle C.

Dvorak 9 English horn solo, Dominik Wollenweber

Dvořák “New World” – English Horn Solo

R.Wagner : English Horn solo from Tristan und Isolde / Sho Music Festival Online

Musical Fact Of The Week

Question

What was the first instrument?

The oldest musical instrument in the world, a 60,000-year-old Neanderthal flute is a treasure of global significance. It was discovered in Divje babe cave near Cerkno and has been declared by experts to have been made by Neanderthals. It is made from the left thighbone of a young cave bear and has four pierced holes.

Question

What was the first song?

“Hurrian Hymn No. 6” is considered the world’s earliest melody, but the oldest musical composition to have survived in its entirety is a first century A.D. Greek tune known as the “Seikilos Epitaph.” The song was found engraved on an ancient marble column used to mark a woman’s gravesite in Turkey.

A sailor went to sea, sea, sea

21-22 – Special Ed – Week of 10/11 – 10/15

Instrument of the Week

The Woodwind Family

The Saxophone

#	Saxophone	Key	Sounds an octave lower than	Sounds an octave higher than
1	Sopranissimo	B♭	##	Soprano
2	Sopranino	E♭	##	Alto
3	Soprano	B♭	Sopranissimo	Tenor
4	Alto	E♭	Sopranino	Baritone
5	Tenor	B♭	Soprano	Bass
6	Baritone	E♭	Alto	Contrabass
7	Bass	B♭	Tenor	Subcontrabass
8	Contrabass	E♭	Baritone	##
9	Subcontrabass	B♭	Bass	##

“DANCE MONKEY” – STREET SAX PERFORMANCE

La Pantera Rosa ”PINK PANTHER THEME” Saxophone Cover

Meet The Instruments

The Woodwind Family

The English Horn

Dvorak 9 English horn solo, Dominik Wollenweber

Dvořák “New World” – English Horn Solo

R.Wagner : English Horn solo from Tristan und Isolde / Sho Music Festival Online

Musical Fact Of The Week

Question

What was the first instrument?

Question

What was the first song?

A sailor went to sea, sea, sea

21-22 – General Ed – Week of 9/27 – 10/1

Instrument of the Week

The Woodwind Family

The Flute

A flute can be described as a woodwind instrument, generally of a tubular shape, that is played by blowing across a specially-shaped opening (known as the embouchure) in such a way as to produce a vibrating column of air whose pulsations we hear as sound.

The important take away is that the flute is part of the Woodwind Family.

Syrinx flute solo by Emma He

Emma He is 9 years old.

W.A.Mozart Flute Concerto No.2 in D Major , K.314 -Yeojin Han –

Instrument of the Week

The Woodwind Family

The Clarinet

The clarinet is a family of woodwind instruments. It has a single-reed mouthpiece, a straight, cylindrical tube with an almost cylindrical bore, and a flared bell. A person who plays a clarinet is called a clarinetist (sometimes spelled clarinettist).

The clarinet, French clarinette, German Klarinette, single-reed woodwind instrument used orchestrally and in military and brass bands and possessing a distinguished solo repertory. It is usually made of African blackwood and has a cylindrical bore of about 0.6 inch (1.5 cm) terminating in a flared bell.

The important take away is that the clarinet is part of the Woodwind family.

John Williams BBC Proms 2017 – Annelien Van Wauwe, clarinet

Lean On by Major Lazer (Four Play clarinet Music Video Cover)

George Frideric Handel – The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba

Hey Children (2nd/3rd)

Hey children, who’s in town?

Everybody stop and look around!

Hey children, who’s in town?

Tell us your name and then sit down!

Jump In, Jump Out (Ice Breaker Name Game)

Jump In, Jump Out (From Gullah, Gullah Island)
Jump in, jump out
Turn yourself about
Jump in, jump out
Introduce yourself
My name is ________
And I like to _________
(some examples are Sing, Dance)
I like to _________
(use the same word you just filled in above)
Every day of my life
Jump in, jump out
Turn yourself about
Jump in, jump out
Say it with a shout!
(Repeat and continue for each child)

Rhythm Cards

Reading Music

Xylophone

Boom Cards

Games

Bump Up Tomato

Cobbler, Cobbler

Sally Go Round the Sun

Doggie, Doggie

Plate Game

Shoo Fly Don’t Bother Me

Waltz of the Flowers – Percussion

JaNell Wilder's Blog for Music Classes At Howe And Haigh

Howe and Haigh Elementary Schools

Weekly Music Lessons

Ludwig van Beethoven

Compositions

Cajon

Life and education[edit]

Works and compositions[edit]

Korok Forest (from The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild) // Amy Turk