Recorder Tunes
For Practice

Each tune has one or more "empty" measure to set the tempo.

mp3 files

Grade 3:

1. One Bird

2. Merrily

3. Au Claire de la Lune

4. Waltzing

5. Go Tell Aunt Rhody

6. Lightly Row

Grade 4:

1. Hush Little Baby

2. Red River Valley

3. Oh, When the Saints

4. Jolly Old St. Nicholas

5. Ode To Joy

Desert Rider
(official mp3)

A Minor Melody
(official mp3)

The last 2 are links to Jim Tinter's site. The recordings are the same as we use in class!

 

 

 

 


Faculty & Staff
> Music > Links

LINKS

Ascension School Music Gallery
Student Music Projects and activities

Bibme - Bibliography creator

EasyBib-- Bibliography creator


Music Games for all!
Great for learning lines and spaces!

Virtual Keyboard play the piano on your computer

Birds on a Wire inspire Music! (Short video)

Birds on the Wires from Jarbas Agnelli on Vimeo.

Primary: Homemade Instruments

Nancy Stewart's Page

Family Corner 9 easy instruments

Grade 3:

Panpipes Instructions

Clay whistle (ocarina) instructions

Drinking Straw Whistle instructions

Grade 4:

KidZone New York Philharmonic Orchestra

The San Francisco Symphony's Kid Site

State Songs for All 50 States

"Illinois" Our State Song

Grade 5:

New York City Ballet Glossary

Video of "Revelations" by Alvin Ailey (1960)

Grade 6:

Grade 7:

Lyric Opera of Chicago

History of Classical Music site from Medieval on. . .

Composer imformation by Era:

Renaissance
Baroque
Classical
Romantic
20th Century

Grade 8:

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
All Music Guide
Rolling Stone Magazine Artist Guide
NotationMachine Database of top songs by year

PBS Jazz Kids (Louis & Duke)

New! Jazz Resources and links

Star Dust Examples:
Hoagy Carmichael mp3 (the composer)
Louis Armstrong mp3
Fats Waller mp3
Nat "King" Cole mp3

List of Jazz Greats for Projects

Jazz: ImportantPlaces: check all 4 cities

Folk Song Index

Audacity sound editing software.

B.B. King
Muddy Waters
B.B. King (guitar)

 

 

Great Big House
There is always something happening in the Music
Room.


Music and Movement:

Many grades learn folk games
and dances in Music class.


Paw Paw Patch

2nd graders learned a
play-party game to
"Paw-paw Patch."


Game: Obwisanna
First graders learn about steady beats playing a game from
Ghana, "Obwisanna".
A small pom-pom is passed
on the beat.

Grade 5

Chicago's fabulous Auditorium Theater.

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