Music

Ta, Ta, ti-ti, Ta
Can you feel the BEAT?

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“Music is composed of esssential elements
that make them unique or similar to other music from around the world.”

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One, Two, Three, Beats, Beats, Beats…..
Eurhythmical beats must have characters.
“Accented” (the crusis), “unaccented", and “increasing energy” (the anacrusis).

Can you tell which one of these beats are the children in P-1 class are demonstrating?

In his book “Ways We Listen to Music” composer Aaron Copland attempts to explain the various ways we listen to music in the following three planes.

“Sensuous Plane—–Expressive Plane——Sheer Musical Plane

The split is not to say that we only use one or the other of these planes but   we correlate them–listening in all three ways at the same time.  ……….The third plane requires more preparation on the listener; to increase awareness of the musical elements and what happens to it.”

At HIS, when students graduate G12, we aim to be able to interact with music on a “Sheer Musical Plane” along with other planes; that is to be able to interpret, perform, listen to music purely for musical reason.

Welcome to music class!

This week, students have completed preparing new learning materials and have had orientation session on each year level coursework. For G2 through G8 classes,  they have reviewed ‘Guideline’ documents that explains the class expectations, overviews, etc. Highschool students have been introduced to their Syllabus . I hope you had a chance to share reading. The information will help us all to be on board supporting our student’s learning.

Hope to be able to see you at Open School Evening.

Regards,

Takako Tokunaga