Week Six of Orchestra
Kyrie: This week in Orchestra we have been working on vibrato and also our concert pieces. My favorite piece is dance scenario. It is really cool! But all of the songs that we are playing are cool. And we are learning lots of new things this year. :D
Ana: This week in Orchestra we have been working on the 16th notes in Russian Sailor’s Dance. My favorite piece is Japanese Lullaby. Its fun to play and somewhat of a challenge! :D
Caitlin: This week in “La Casa de Orquestra” we’ve been working on the 16th notes in “Fughetta in G” it’s helping us overcome the challenge of the 16th notes so we can go full speed! My favorite piece is “Folk Songs of Israel” because I know the words to the song because of my religion, so it is fun to connect the lyrics to the piece we play! :)
DeEtte: This week in orchestra we have been working on the bowing at the end of Dance Scenario. My favorite song is Dance Scenario because I like how fast it is and the contrast of it.
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
7th grade 2nd period orchestra
October 5, 2010
Orchestra 1st Quarter Blog
We love orchestra!! We love the song Ridin’ the rails. Ridin’ the Rails is a fun piece that uses mostly eighth notes with a spicatto at the beginning. This piece was composed by Richard Meyer. The next piece our everyday orchestra students enjoy playing is Sansa Kroma. This piece is a call and response piece with percussion, the percussion instruments are a drum, claves, shaker, wooden blocks. This piece was arranged by Felicia Sandler. And those are only some of our fun pieces for this quarter.
Mrs. Buehl students, Morgan Espich, Kristen Odorico, Anika Sande, Laura Reimer, Kailee Lessner, Arianna Nasserjah, Brianna Schwanbeck
Orchestra 1st Quarter Blog
We love orchestra!! We love the song Ridin’ the rails. Ridin’ the Rails is a fun piece that uses mostly eighth notes with a spicatto at the beginning. This piece was composed by Richard Meyer. The next piece our everyday orchestra students enjoy playing is Sansa Kroma. This piece is a call and response piece with percussion, the percussion instruments are a drum, claves, shaker, wooden blocks. This piece was arranged by Felicia Sandler. And those are only some of our fun pieces for this quarter.
Mrs. Buehl students, Morgan Espich, Kristen Odorico, Anika Sande, Laura Reimer, Kailee Lessner, Arianna Nasserjah, Brianna Schwanbeck
Friday, September 24, 2010
7th grade orchestra
We watched a little video about ostinato presented by the Harry Potter Puppet Pals. A pipe bomb made a ticking sound and the characters each said their names using different rhythms. They repeated their names over and over to make the ostinato. Then we made up our own ostinato patterns on our names.
In our small groups we are working on vibrato. We used shakers to work on the arm motion. We also practiced sliding our fingers along the fingerboard and changing the speed of the sliding.
We are learning more of the variations in Variations on a Well-Known Sea Chantey. What makes the new parts hard are the fast speed of some of them and changing from a fast variation to a slow one.
Sansa Kroma is one of the pieces we are learning and we played a game that goes with the song. You sit in a circle with a stick or a stone in front of you and then you pass the stick or stone to the next person following the beat of the song. We used mints instead of a stone and we ate them at the end of the game.
Last week we watched a video that showed people all over the world singing a song together. All the musicians were street musicians and the people who made the video traveled all around the world to record them singing Stand By Me. It was a really good performance and it was done by people who weren’t professional musicians.
In our small groups we are working on vibrato. We used shakers to work on the arm motion. We also practiced sliding our fingers along the fingerboard and changing the speed of the sliding.
We are learning more of the variations in Variations on a Well-Known Sea Chantey. What makes the new parts hard are the fast speed of some of them and changing from a fast variation to a slow one.
Sansa Kroma is one of the pieces we are learning and we played a game that goes with the song. You sit in a circle with a stick or a stone in front of you and then you pass the stick or stone to the next person following the beat of the song. We used mints instead of a stone and we ate them at the end of the game.
Last week we watched a video that showed people all over the world singing a song together. All the musicians were street musicians and the people who made the video traveled all around the world to record them singing Stand By Me. It was a really good performance and it was done by people who weren’t professional musicians.
Friday, September 10, 2010
6th period 7th grade orchestra
Lately in seventh grade orchestra we have been playing lots of interesting pieces like Sansa Kroma, The Star Spangled Banner, Variations on a Well-Known Sea Chantey, Drunken Sailor, Postcards from Russia, An English Folksong, and last but not least Kingsfold Melody. My favorite of all the pieces is Postcards from Russia. It has many different pieces in it like Minka, Meadowland and many more. As you can see we are playing lots of pieces but all are very fun to play especially with a small group of people.
-Paige Baillies
-Paige Baillies
5th period 8th grade orchestra
In the first week of orchestra, we got to know each other. We came to class the first day and sat down. We didn’t play then because it was the first day of school. We talked about what was going on this year, talked about how the first day was going, about what we were going to go through this year. We did “mini” interviews with each other, took some pictures, and sat around and talked.
On the second day of school we started playing our instruments. Since then, that’s what we have been doing. Lately, we’ve been getting new pieces; they seem to be interesting to play.
Today is the 10th of September, since today is Friday; we are playing the Star Spangled Banner for tomorrow, which is Saturday, September 11th.
This is Tasha.
I got to conduct the orchestra one day in practice :) I love conducting and I’m really glad that I get that opportunity. Playing cello was the best decision I ever made! I LOVE IT Whoop-Whoop for Cello! (WHOOP-WHOOP!)-(Pass me Ms. Buehl I need an “A”)
This is Kyrie.
I get to help make this blog. Today we played the Star Spangled Banner. It was kind of fun. I like to play in orchestra. I play the viola and really enjoy it. I also play the bass sometimes. .0
This is Torleif.
I like to play orchestra, I play the cello, and I’m making this blog because I put this little Popsicle stick in a can. I’m glad that I’m orchestra because I enjoy it.
This is Caitlin.
Orchestra is so much fun. I like coming to orchestra everyday because it’s interesting. I play viola and the pieces we play are very fun to play. I hope you liked reading my post. Bye.
We hope that you liked reading our blog post and as Tasha says.. “Our memories of our wonderful Orchestra.. WHOOP WHOOP”
Tasha ﻸ, Torleif ﷼, Kyrie ®, and Caitlin
On the second day of school we started playing our instruments. Since then, that’s what we have been doing. Lately, we’ve been getting new pieces; they seem to be interesting to play.
Today is the 10th of September, since today is Friday; we are playing the Star Spangled Banner for tomorrow, which is Saturday, September 11th.
This is Tasha.
I got to conduct the orchestra one day in practice :) I love conducting and I’m really glad that I get that opportunity. Playing cello was the best decision I ever made! I LOVE IT Whoop-Whoop for Cello! (WHOOP-WHOOP!)-(Pass me Ms. Buehl I need an “A”)
This is Kyrie.
I get to help make this blog. Today we played the Star Spangled Banner. It was kind of fun. I like to play in orchestra. I play the viola and really enjoy it. I also play the bass sometimes. .0
This is Torleif.
I like to play orchestra, I play the cello, and I’m making this blog because I put this little Popsicle stick in a can. I’m glad that I’m orchestra because I enjoy it.
This is Caitlin.
Orchestra is so much fun. I like coming to orchestra everyday because it’s interesting. I play viola and the pieces we play are very fun to play. I hope you liked reading my post. Bye.
We hope that you liked reading our blog post and as Tasha says.. “Our memories of our wonderful Orchestra.. WHOOP WHOOP”
Tasha ﻸ, Torleif ﷼, Kyrie ®, and Caitlin
7th grade 2nd period orchestra
September 10, 2010
Hello and welcome to the 7th grade Orchestra Blog. On the first day we talked about expectations and respect for our instruments. The next day we started playing right away. Some of the music we have played in the last two weeks are “Postcards From Russia”, “Drunken Sailor”, “The Star Spangled Banner”, “Variations On a Well-Known Sea Chantey”, “Kingsfold Melody” and “Sansa Kroma”. We also have done a group activity involving candy bars. In our groups for the activity we had to make variations of a pat-clap pattern. So far we have had lots of fun in our new Orchestra class!
Three of Mrs. Buehl’s Students, Morgan Espich, Kristen Odorico,Kailee Lessner
Hello and welcome to the 7th grade Orchestra Blog. On the first day we talked about expectations and respect for our instruments. The next day we started playing right away. Some of the music we have played in the last two weeks are “Postcards From Russia”, “Drunken Sailor”, “The Star Spangled Banner”, “Variations On a Well-Known Sea Chantey”, “Kingsfold Melody” and “Sansa Kroma”. We also have done a group activity involving candy bars. In our groups for the activity we had to make variations of a pat-clap pattern. So far we have had lots of fun in our new Orchestra class!
Three of Mrs. Buehl’s Students, Morgan Espich, Kristen Odorico,Kailee Lessner
Monday, October 5, 2009
Last week, the students in the groups that meet every day had sectionals on Wednesday. I worked with the different sections of the orchestra (1st violins, 2nd violins, violas, cellos and basses) of the pieces that they will be playing for the concert. When the students were not in a sectional, they spent time brainstorming ideas for the classroom blog and then took turns typing in their contributions.
Mrs. Buehl
Four Royal Dances
4 sections/dances called The Knight, The Lady, The Jester, and The Lord.
There are different dynamics and speed.
Activities
We do a lot of scales.
One person tunes and everyone follows.
Word Wall words we have been learning:
Solo – in all of the songs
Fugue – In Fairly Fugal
Sforzando – In The Knight
Erica, Juliana, Danielle, and Caroline did it yeah!
“The Four Royal Dances”
“The Four Royal Dances” is a beautiful four part piece that throughout, paints images of dancing nobles from the renaissance times. The four included nobles are the loyal lord, the weeping lady, the jubilant jester, and lastly the heroic knight.
Word Wall
We have learned many musical terms like suspension. Suspension is where there is a clashing or tense sound that is usually resolved within the next note or so with a major chord or sound. Another word that we learned is subito. Subito is the musical term meaning when a dynamic is immediately changes to the next dynamic or temporarily to a new way of playing.
Activities in Class
Some of the different activities that we do during class is the warm up using different keys and rhythms going up and down, sometimes in a round or canon. During some days we come together in smaller learning groups called our learning communities. In those groups we talk about terms or words on the world wall or do different activities. Finally we rehearse together as an orchestra different pieces in sometimes breaking off for a minute or two so one section can practice a section more one-on-one with the teacher.
By: Taylor, Katie, Gloria, Marlee, Bradlee
One Song we have been practicing is “Four Royal Dances”. It has 4 movements, The Lord, The Jester, The Knight and The Lady. This song is only being played by the kids that are in orchestra every day.
Warm ups consist of a scale (f,g,a,b,c,d,e,f,g,a) and we sometimes switch accidentals on the notes. Sometimes we play a tune from one of the songs we are learning.
In small groups we are first starting up with practicing vibrato and ending with practicing measures in all the songs we are playing for the November concert.
By: Lauren .W, Courtney .W, Kaitlyn .W and Tori .S.
The four royal dances is what we play on everyday orchestra. We practice each movement carefully, especially the knight because it's the hardest. We learn even more from the clues we see on the board when we guess the song we are going to practice. Sometimes they are word wall works, which are musical terms that we may not know, but we’ll learn. Before every class we tune our own instruments and do a warm up. The worm up helps teach us hard rhythms and gets us ready to play.
By: Daniel, Gabby, Tori, and Ada
By: Dani S, Anne M, Finnley R, Isaac J, David S, Carissa G
Ellis Island is one of the pieces we are playing this fall that has a long story to the whole piece. Ellis Island shows immigration and hardships that immigrants had to face while leaving their country and settling in the new world. To others in our group it told a story about the immigrant’s struggle of getting to and out of Ellis Island and surviving in the new world. This piece has a very fast speed with lots of triplet notes, making it difficult to count. Many problems we personally have are counting after a certain spot that was especially hard to read. But we learn from our mistakes and make new ones to fix until we have the piece perfect sounding. We are working hard to stride high with this piece and hope our parents will enjoy it!
By: Allie, Abby, Becca, Corey
By the way…VIOLINS RULE!!!
We are learning a lot of pieces right now, but one challenging piece is called Ellis Island. It sounds like it is about a family immigrating to America. The high violin part sounds like the family is amazed at what they see, and the low cello/bass part sounds like the guards who either let immigrants in or send them home. Some challenging parts in this piece include measures 73-79, where the violin 1 part has to play in 3rd position! We all are getting better and better at our playing, so the concerts this year will be great!
Mrs. Buehl
Four Royal Dances
4 sections/dances called The Knight, The Lady, The Jester, and The Lord.
There are different dynamics and speed.
Activities
We do a lot of scales.
One person tunes and everyone follows.
Word Wall words we have been learning:
Solo – in all of the songs
Fugue – In Fairly Fugal
Sforzando – In The Knight
Erica, Juliana, Danielle, and Caroline did it yeah!
“The Four Royal Dances”
“The Four Royal Dances” is a beautiful four part piece that throughout, paints images of dancing nobles from the renaissance times. The four included nobles are the loyal lord, the weeping lady, the jubilant jester, and lastly the heroic knight.
Word Wall
We have learned many musical terms like suspension. Suspension is where there is a clashing or tense sound that is usually resolved within the next note or so with a major chord or sound. Another word that we learned is subito. Subito is the musical term meaning when a dynamic is immediately changes to the next dynamic or temporarily to a new way of playing.
Activities in Class
Some of the different activities that we do during class is the warm up using different keys and rhythms going up and down, sometimes in a round or canon. During some days we come together in smaller learning groups called our learning communities. In those groups we talk about terms or words on the world wall or do different activities. Finally we rehearse together as an orchestra different pieces in sometimes breaking off for a minute or two so one section can practice a section more one-on-one with the teacher.
By: Taylor, Katie, Gloria, Marlee, Bradlee
One Song we have been practicing is “Four Royal Dances”. It has 4 movements, The Lord, The Jester, The Knight and The Lady. This song is only being played by the kids that are in orchestra every day.
Warm ups consist of a scale (f,g,a,b,c,d,e,f,g,a) and we sometimes switch accidentals on the notes. Sometimes we play a tune from one of the songs we are learning.
In small groups we are first starting up with practicing vibrato and ending with practicing measures in all the songs we are playing for the November concert.
By: Lauren .W, Courtney .W, Kaitlyn .W and Tori .S.
The four royal dances is what we play on everyday orchestra. We practice each movement carefully, especially the knight because it's the hardest. We learn even more from the clues we see on the board when we guess the song we are going to practice. Sometimes they are word wall works, which are musical terms that we may not know, but we’ll learn. Before every class we tune our own instruments and do a warm up. The worm up helps teach us hard rhythms and gets us ready to play.
By: Daniel, Gabby, Tori, and Ada
By: Dani S, Anne M, Finnley R, Isaac J, David S, Carissa G
Ellis Island is one of the pieces we are playing this fall that has a long story to the whole piece. Ellis Island shows immigration and hardships that immigrants had to face while leaving their country and settling in the new world. To others in our group it told a story about the immigrant’s struggle of getting to and out of Ellis Island and surviving in the new world. This piece has a very fast speed with lots of triplet notes, making it difficult to count. Many problems we personally have are counting after a certain spot that was especially hard to read. But we learn from our mistakes and make new ones to fix until we have the piece perfect sounding. We are working hard to stride high with this piece and hope our parents will enjoy it!
By: Allie, Abby, Becca, Corey
By the way…VIOLINS RULE!!!
We are learning a lot of pieces right now, but one challenging piece is called Ellis Island. It sounds like it is about a family immigrating to America. The high violin part sounds like the family is amazed at what they see, and the low cello/bass part sounds like the guards who either let immigrants in or send them home. Some challenging parts in this piece include measures 73-79, where the violin 1 part has to play in 3rd position! We all are getting better and better at our playing, so the concerts this year will be great!
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