Musikgarten

We hope everyone has enjoyed moving and learning new songs.  Next week will be our last week of the Fall session.  Musikgarten will take the week of Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday off and begin the Spring session January 24, 2011. 

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One of the unique aspects of The Cycle of Seasons program, and certainly some of my favorite activities, are the Recorded Movement Activities.  These are mostly instrumental pieces composed specifically for this class to evoke an expressive movement response from your child.  This is very unusual since most movement activities are either choreographed, such as a circle dance, or derived from the text of a song, as in Six L...
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Keyboard 1
Week 11
Keyboard: See the Pony with chords
                Review old songs in new keys
Listen: Harmonic Patterns Game 1
           Triple Notation Game 2

Week 12
Keyboard: Sea Shell
                The Wild Horses- in e with chords
Write/Read: p. 27, play Mystery Song on keyboard
                  p. 28

Keyboard 2
Week 11
Keyboard: When the Saints Go Marching In, p.25
                Technique-Scales in C, G, D, A, and E with chords
                Improvisation- Improvisations 7-8
Listen: Russia...
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