At Home Learning - Music with Mike Whitebread

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3rd Grade Music

Optional Music Listening Game: Listen to Peter and the Wolf by Sergei Prokofiev

Each instrument represents a character in the story about a boy named Peter and a wolf. Peter risks death in a plan to capture the wolf. Listen to this Symphonic Fairy Tale and see if you can tell if Peter makes it out alive!

The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra's music director Bramwell Tovey does double duty as conductor and narrator in this delightfully entertaining performance. It...

4th Grade

Optional Music Listening Game: Listen to “Peter and the Wolf by Sergei Prokofiev”

Each instrument represents a character in the story about a boy named Peter and a wolf. Peter risks death in a plan to capture the wolf. Listen to this Symphonic Fairy Tale and see if you can tell if Peter makes it out alive!

The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra's music director Bramwell Tovey does double duty as conductor and narrator in this delightfully entertaining performance. It...

5th Grade

TWO OPTIONS:

  1. If you have your instrument at home, try “The Entertainer” by Scott Joplin. The Entertainer Melody.PDF

  2. If you would prefer a listening adventure and don’t have your instrument at home:

    Listen to Peter and the Wolf by Sergei Prokofiev

    Each instrument represents a character in the story about a boy named Peter and a wolf. Peter risks death in a plan to capture the wolf. Listen to this Symphonic Fairy Tale and see if you can tell if Peter makes it out alive!

The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra's music director Bramwell Tovey does double duty as conductor and narrator in this delightfully entertaining performance. It...

Beginning Guitar

If you would like a new song to try during this time at home, try:

“The William Tell Overture”, which is a song you have heard before but probably didn’t know the name.

Printed Music: William-Tell-Overture-Guitar-Single-LineTab.pdf

Listening Examples:

The Tokyo Philharmonic

The Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra 100th Anniversary Special Concert Myung-Whun Chung May 2, 2012/ Suntory Hall

That great orchestral wonder, Bugs Bunny

The classical William Tell Overture making its debut in another Bugs Bunny Cartoon

Advanced Guitar

If you would like a new song to try during this time at home, try: “Blackbird” by the Beatles. This is fingerpicking and builds on some of the fingerpicking we have already done.

Link to Blackbird.PDF


Russian Easter Festival Overture

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Russian Easter Festival Overture op.36 BBC Symphony Orchestra Gennady Rozhdestvensky Live recording

Email Mike Whitebread to schedule a 10-15 minute video chat with him for any help you may need.