Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Recordings from our visits to TARA are posted below! These are pretty amazing, friends. Well done!!

Friday April 31 - Morning Class and friends
Friday May 14 - Afternoon Class
Download AMM - PM Class - Tara Trip Song

Friday, May 21, 2010

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqME-3dwoGs

if you like soccer...

Monday, May 10, 2010

Continuing
- Romantic Tone Poem - please email Ms. Simmons your paragraph outlining your selection of your work of literature and how you will represent it in your composition

Past-Due
- Romantic Factsheet
- Classical Handout - on your own...
- Listening Journals

Monday, May 3, 2010

Real-World Research due today.
Please put your printed version in the box for your class or email to lauren.simmons@tdsb.on.ca
Presentations will take place in the Library tomorrow.

Continue working on Listening Journals and old factsheets.

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

- Open-Book quiz today (Wednesday if you will be absent)
- Keep working on Real-World Research Project for Monday May 3


Next up for Music History: The Classical Era
- see this link: Classical Era Information
- see handouts for more

Your task for the Classical Era:
NOT a Factsheet! Write a 1 page handout of your own creation about the Classical Era - like a Factsheet, but without the guidelines from me. You can use point-form, bullets, boxes, pictures, whatever you like, but be sure to cover:
- Musical Features of Classical Era
- Social Role of music/composers
- Important Composers/Compositions
- Instruments
DUE: FRIDAY, APRIL 30

Classical Era: Enrichment (Bonus/Bumper) Composition
- see handout from Ms. Simmons

...you might have to do homework! so do it!

Monday, April 26, 2010

lang lang playing flight of the bumblebee...on an iPad

Check out this pretty cool video - famous pianist plays the piano on the iPad...