Spring term concludes

Can you name all the instruments in this video.


Research assignment 4th class Who was Stravinsky

Composer Stravinsky Find out more on link below


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Draft Concert programme

Programme  3^rd Class

1 Story   Three Billy Goats Gruff/ Three Little Pigs

2 Foxtrot open string pizz 

3 First finger riff  O Sinner man

4 Jig or reel  rhythm   Two groups one on Beat   Dancer

5 Rap

6 D Scale Wintertime in Russia

Story  Three Little Pigs

1 Vivaldi in G

2 Toreadors March

3 Drunken Sailor

4Open string rhythm Wintertime in Russia

5Irelands Call  D and A

6 Rock You

7Rap

4^th Class  1

Open string rhythm  Bow River

Polkas Terry Teehans /ScartaglenJohn RYans   Upside down rhythm

Twinkle to polka rhythm

Trasna na dtonnta with chords

Aon Do Muc is Bó Scale

Reel  Kilfenora Ceili Dancer
March
Slip Jig  Dilin o Dilin o Dilin o  Rocky Road

 4^th Class 2

Open string tune I stop and You stop

Open string crossing to rhythm

Twinkle to Tango rhythm

Tango

Nead na Lacahn s sa Mhuta

 Sharks Out Eagles Flying

Blues

Beguine

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Seachatain na Gaeilge week 2

Maith an Cailin

 4th class

Amhran agus Deamhsa  Ostinatos

Reel  Kilfenora Ceili Dancer 
March 
Slip Jig  Dilin o Dilin o Dilin o  Rocky Road 
Polkas  Scale and Double Stopping 

Trasna na dtonnta  adding harmony to melody Chords

Play Your Name

Sight Reading: Notes on D string

3rd Class
String Crossing
March
Bravo Holly Reel

Liane's James Galway Facts : Famous flute player from in Belfast
                                                Went to London to study in his teens
                                                Played in the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra under Herbert von Karajan
                                                Invited to play with rock group Pink Floyd Potsdamer Platz
                                                He is 75 yewars old and lives in Lucerne when he is not travelling the                                                    world playing
                                                He launched First Flute an online teraching website
                                                1997 Musical America named hime musician of the year
                                               

Seachtain na Gaeilge

Is é Seachtain na Gaeilge 


Today's class was all about Irish Music

Amhráin agus Deamhsa  Singing and Dancing

Uirlisí Ceoil:  Musical Instruments  Uilleann pipes , Harp, Flute, Fiddle, Accordion, Concertina, Guitar, Mandolin,


Listen to the Speks of Glasses Island singing Dilin o Deamhas  here http://thespeks.bandcamp.com/track/dil-n


Listen to the tune of Nead na Lachan here  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhNv0FmCrQI

 

Here are the rhythms we played today


Ríl -Reel 4 beats in a bar. McLeod's Reel Kilfenora Cei-li Dan-cer


Polka John Ryan's Polka 1 2 1 skip rhythm


Hornpipe- 4 beats like a reel but slower tempo

Heartbeat rhythm (dotted rhythm) Cornpíopa Off to California

Port - Jig 6/8 The Irish Washerwoman Wriggleys chewing gum

New   Slipjig   9 tip toe beats    The tune Nead na Lachan is a slip jig

     Fonn Mall   Slow Air

     Port Béal     Lilting

Recognise the fiddle player?

Listen to one of the most famous céilí bands in the world in the clip. They are from Kilfenora in County Clare

  Which one of these two rhythms  fits a jig