Happy Spring

2008

March: Music in Our Schools Month

April: Jazz Appreciation Month

Pre-K and K children are exploring instrument sounds and vocal color.

First Grade students are learning to distinguish melody and harmony in music.

Second Grade students are learning to recognize different rhythms.

Students are introduced to Peter and the Wolf.

Students use a variety of techniques in music class to develop new skills. Singing, playing instruments, creative movement, composition and listening are all part of the musical experience.

Instrumental students are continuing with their individual lessons as well as learning new music for the concert in spring.

Please feel free to contact me at any time with questions concerning the music program at dlippart@capemaycityschool.org

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Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) was born in the village of Sontsovka in the Donets region of the Ukraine. One of his first compositions was Peter and the Wolf, written in just two weeks in April of 1936 for a children's theater in Moscow.  Prokofiev invented the story and wrote the narration himself, drawing on memories of his own childhood.  He constructed the music as a child's introduction to the orchestra, with each character in the story represented by a different instrument or group of instruments: Peter by the strings, the bird by the flute, the duck by the oboe, the cat by the clarinet, the wolf by the horn section, and so on.

by Sergei Prokofiev

Each character in the story has a particular instrument and a musical theme

• Bird : flute
• Duck : oboe
• Cat : clarinet
• Grandfather : bassoon
• Wolf : 3 French horns
• Hunters (gunshots) : timpani and bass drum
• Peter : string instruments

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