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December 1, 2008 9:49 AM
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| Instrumental Music: Ms. Modic |
Overview |
The Instrumental Music program at the Junior School involves wind and percussion instruments. Wind instruments include recorder, flute, oboe, clarinet, alto saxophone, trumpet, french horn, and trombone. Percussion instruments include snare and bass drum, auxiliary percussion instruments, and marimba. Students choose, in fourth grade, an instrument that they want to study for the next two years at the Junior School and will then begin private lessons with Ms. Modic. After all students have had their private lessons, they will be grouped by "like" instruments for weekly lessons. Additionally, all students have one weekly large group rehearsal (fourth grade will not begin large group rehearsals until mid-January). When in fifth grade, students are given the opportunity to try a new member of their instrument's family. For example, a fifth grade flute student can try the piccolo for a few weeks, a fifth grade clarinet student can try the bass clarinet, a fifth grade alto sax student can try the soprano sax and tenor sax, and fifth grade trumpet players can try the flugelhorn and baritone horn. |
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Assignments! Practice! Practi Announcements The Fifth Grade Instrumental Ensemble will be performing at the following events in December: Tuesday Assembly (Open House) - December 9 Schenley Gardens Senior Living Community - December 17 Winter Festival at the Junior School - December 19 at 1:30 p.m. |
Links |
| Why bother to learn to play an instrument with so many other things to do? Read up on the many benefits of being a musician, compliments of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra! Listen to the instruments! This New York Philharmonic KidZone web site is great! Want to compose music using your computer? Try this web site! http://www.finalemusic.com/notepad/ PLAY BALL! Beethoven's Baseball! Try this really fun site for identifying the composers, compliments of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra web site! It's too much!
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Teacher: Ms. Ruth Ann Modic
Contact: (412) 473-4414
rmodic@shadysideacademy.org
Office Hours: 8:00am - 3:45pm
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Mystery Musician for December:
1. This Russian musician/composer first became a law clerk because his father thought a career in music was not acceptable.
2. He liked playing cards. Solitaire was his favorite game.
3. A certain ballet and suite of music (that is popular during the winter holidays) that he composed has gotten more people interested in listening to classical music than any other piece of music!
4. He wrote 1812 Overture. It requires cannons to fire during the piece and is often perfomed to celebrate the fourth of July.
Mystery Musician for November:
Stevie Wonder!
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