Hi everyone!
Hope you are all well and using your class time productively. I'm resting and recovering after I had a little run-in with a truck on Tuesday and I won't be back until Monday at the earliest.

I hope you're working on the following things:

First Year Students
- adding a melody to your 4-part progressions ready to play by Monday
- writing out your melodies and progressions to hand-in
- continuing keyboard and theory reviews

Second Year Students
- rehearse for your recording projects
- the microphone we were using has been taken back to the library (for the Open Mic there on Friday) - if you need it ask Ms. Veltman or Matt Sirna to grab it for you

Reminders:
- Reading Response #3 (Medieval and Renaissance) due today
- Composition: Polyphonic counter-melody due tomorrow, Homophonic choirds due Friday
** we'll share our final versions of ball three on Friday!

Here's some video resources on the Medieval and Renaissance Eras:




And watch this vieod cause it's funny.

Welcome Back Everyone!

I hope you all had restful and relaxing March Break.

Your first priority, for most of you, is to send me three links to articles for your REAL WORLD MUSIC RESEARCH PROJECT and short one-paragraph summaries of those articles that was due Friday before the break.

We will start these presentations on Friday March 22 (because of Parent-Teacher Interviews etc) but we will be starting on some new work tomorrow, and later this week, so you'll need to get this ready at home. Gasp, homework!

Please let me know if you have any questions!

Some Resources for your Real World Research Project

Start at the Leaside High School Library Website.

Go to the EBSCO HOST search bar in the Upper Right Hand Corner.
Enter your search terms. Select the FULL TEXT box for better results.
Once you have results, use the selections on the left hand side to limit your sources.

Also on the Library website, visit the Gale Virtual Reference Library under eBooks.
Use the General Search at the top then use the side bars to limit to your topic.

You can also find research articles on JSTOR. Start from the landing page with a general search.
Use the drop-down menus at the top to help you sort the findings.

Don't forget:
- 3 links to articles with 250-word summaries emailed to me by FRIDAY MARCH 8
- Works Cited APA format with at least 5 sources for your final product

Good Monday Morning!

Let's call today a catch-up day... work on your Listening Portfolio #2 due Wednesday, and ease in to the work week.

New work coming tomorrow.

If you will be leaving early for March Break, please let Ms. Simmons know. (And, we hate you. Just kidding.)

For discussion.

Today:
- Theory Quiz

Tomorrow:
- play 12-bar blues for Ms. Simmons

Thursday:
- play blues scale for Ms. Simmons

Friday:
- sharing Blues Improvisation composition with the class

Late/Overdue Work:
- Reading Response 2
- Melody & Variation composition
- Listening Portfolio and Reading Response 1