"Fiddle-I-Fee" and "All the Pretty Little Horses" Listening tracks

Please listen to the examples at least once a day. Have fun!

Fiddle-I-Fee

All the Pretty Little Horses

Life Has Loveliness to Sell Listening

Click on the following link to listen to our song!

Remember when you practice to use your best vowels!

Life Has Loveliness to Sell

Brass Listening Examples

On Wednesday, January 23rd I will quiz you on the instruments of the Brass family. To listen to the what the instrument sounds like, click on the name of the instrument you wish to hear.

Brass

1. Trumpet
2. French Horn
3. Trombone
4. Tuba

Woodwinds Listening Examiples

On Tuesday, January 16th I will quiz you on the instruments of the Woodwind and the Brass families. To listen to the what the instrument sounds like, click on the name of the instrument you wish to hear.

Woodwinds

1. Flute Group
1. Piccolo
2. Flute
2. Single Reeds
1. Clarinet
2. Saxophone
3. Double Reeds
1. Oboe
2. English Horn
3. Bassoon

Strings Listening Examples

On Friday, January 16th I will quiz you on the instruments of the String family. To listen to the what the instrument sounds like, click on the name of the instrument you wish to hear.

Strings

1. Violin
1. Czardas by Vittorio Monti
2. Viola
1. The Lark Ascending by Ralph Vaughan Williams
3. Cello
1. "Prelude" from Cello Suite No. 1 by J. S. Bach
4. Double Bass
1. "Elephant" from The Carnival of the Animals by Camille Saint-Saens
5. Guitar
1. Asturias by Isaac Albeniz
6. Harp
1. Fantasie for solo harp by Camille Saint Saens
7. Harpsichord
1. Tocatta in G minor by Alessandro Scarlatti

The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra

Your homework tonight is to play the Listening Adventures game for Benjamin Brittin's Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra. I know you'll have a lot of fun! Just click on the link below.

The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra

You can save your progress and come back later if you want to by registering a secret name and password. Make sure you talk to your parents before you give out any personal information online.

Welcome!

Welcome to 4th grade music!
Are you ready for an exciting new year of discovery and adventure?

In 4th grade music class this year we will be learning many new things about music, building off of everything we learned in 3rd grade last year. We will learn how to read music by understanding notes, rests, musical punctuation, and the solfege scale. We will explore the origins of written music through the study of Gregorian Chant. We will learn to recognize the instruments of the orchestra by sight and by sound. We will listen to many beautiful works of music throughout history and we will learn about the composers who wrote those works. We will study the voice and how to use it as an instrument to make music alone and with others. We will also have the opportunity to perform in concert with the 6th and 7th graders at the end of the semester. This blog will help keep you updated on what we are learning in music class and will have some materials to help reinforce what we have learned.