Instruments that contribute to World Music.

Students played the Agogo and the African Seed Shaker that contribute to World Music.

Singing session : Do a deer and a Ukulele with kindergarten.

The Rhythmic Trainer : Free flash program to use in your classroom while introducing rhythmic patterns through musical notes.

http://www.therhythmtrainer.com/

This app is available for download in iTunes : Useful app to train your musical ear!

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/blob-chorus-ear.../id484567131?mt=8

Guess the guitarists and improve your music repertoire.

Visiting the music classrooms at UWCSEA Singapore. This 3 days workshop on Role of Arts was super enriching. Still implementing strategies from the workshop.

Pre-Nursery students explore how sounds are created using the keyboard.

Students discover the unique sound of the Guiro in the class.

What picture does the sound of the guiro create in your minds?

Instruments that you can use for provocations

The mbira or thumb piano is an African musical instrument consisting of a wooden board (often fitted with a resonator) with attached staggered metal tines, played by holding the instrument in the hands and plucking the tines with the thumbs. The mbira is usually classified as part of the lamellaphone family, and part of the idiophonefamily of musical instruments.

Members of this broad family of instruments are known by a wide variety of names, such as likembe, mbila, mbira huru, mbira njari, mbira nyunga nyunga, sansu,zanzu, karimbao, marimba, karimba, kalimba, okeme, ubo, or—between the late 1960s and early 1970s— sanza, as well as marímbula (also called kalimba) in the Caribbean Islands).

Fish Style Güiro has a versatile scraping surface that wraps around its entire body. Its unique tapered throat and a slot in the body concentrate and project the sound of the instrument.

This gourd shaker is traditionally known as the axatse (ah-HOT-say) in Ghana, and is also known more generically as a shekere (SHEH-kuh-ray). Each dry, hollow calabash is hand selected for thickness and proportion, then dressed with a lattice work of Jobs Tear Seeds. The axatse can be played like a maraca, by gently tugging on the blue rope ends, by swirling or twisting the seed net, or with more intricate double handed techniques. The axatse differs from the Afro-Cuban shekere in that it is smaller and does not produce a bass note when the top of the gourd is struck. 

1. Rain Sticks are ceremonial instrument originating in the Andes, consisting of a hollow branch sealed at both ends and containing small hard objects such as seeds or pebbles, which make a noise like falling rain when the branch is tilted. There are two didgeridoos in the centre and these are 

   Australian Aboriginal wind instrument in the form of a long wooden tube, traditionally made from a hollow branch, which is blown to produce a deep, resonant sound, varied by rhythmic accents of timbre and volume.

Music students perform at the Primary School Investiture Ceremony 2015 - 16

Jiye playing Chim Chim Cherre on the piano.

Sakurako playing Winter - Vivaldi on the classical guitar.

PYP MUSIC FEST NEWSFLASH 2015

PYP MUSIC FEST 2015

This year we had close to 170 performers on stage showcasing their learning over the years. Students played classical pieces on the piano, recorder and guitar. There were solos, duets and group performances ranging from Indian vocals to Western singing and instrumental music renditions.