What a wonderful world Music

Update

Grade 10's have mostly completed their first keyboard piece of the year. We are done 2 musical eras, and will be starting Baroque next week. Today we got started on our first group piece. It is What a wonderful world by Louis Armstrong. The goal is to learn to play as a group, which a quite a challenge. We will record the piece and post it on the blog. Stay tuned for Grade 10 music recording debut. Have a great weekend.
Cheers
Ms. Hsu

PS: Check out this note reading game and post your high score to brag to others how great you are.
http://www.novelgames.com/flashgames/game.php?id=42

Also check out this article about how music is being used to get a message across, and you get to work on your French.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7010749.stm

Open House

Sept 20th is OHS' Open House. Everyone is welcome. Hope to see you there.
We are just finishing our first piece, Ode to Joy on the Keyboard. We will have our first written test next week.
Have a great week.
Ms. Hsu

New Unit

Hello,
We are starting our new music history unit today. Check out some notes and great listening samples at http://www.essentialsofmusic.com/eras/eras.html. Our first test will be Friday this week.
Have a great day.
Ms. Hsu

First Week

Hello all,
Our first week of school is done and we have completed some review and started our first piece, Ode to Joy or Merrily we roll along. We will continue to review and make sure everyone is starting from the same place. Hopefully the class size will be stablized next week. Have a great weekend.
Cheers
Ms. Hsu

What's new

We have started reviewing grade 9 music and will try to cover all the music theory in the next 2 weeks. Remember to bring your headphones and feel free to post any comments or info regarding music.