February's Composer of the Month

 This month's composer is Johann Pachelbel! He was born over 363 years ago and his music is still played today! He is most well known for his wedding processional-Canon in D, but he has many other beautiful works that we explored as well. Ask your child about his life and be amazed at what they learned :)
Canon in D

Toccata in E Minor

Singet dem Herrn

 Bonus funny video
 

January's Composer of the Month

In January, 3rd-6th grade learned about a wonderful composer, Fanny Mendelssohn! We learned that growing up in the 1800's while being a woman, presented Fanny with countless obstacles she had to overcome in order to be a successful musical composer and performer. The kids enjoyed hearing stories about her being a child prodigy and even an awkward moment with the Queen!
Swan Song/Swanenlied

The Year/Das Jahr-October

Italien/Italy

 

Making the Band!

5th Grade put on a spectacular show, Making the Band! The show captured the musical magic that can happen when the young (gamers) and old (mechanics) team up to create a garage band. The kids absolutely loved learning classic rock songs and you can tell easily by looking at their faces!

 

Upcoming 5th Grade Program

November's Composer of the Month

 This month's composer is Nathaniel Stookey! He is famous for doing things a little differently-whether that be writing music for a humorous murder-mystery with famous children's author Lemony Snicket, making an orchestra completely out of junk from a dump, or being inspired to compose by a vintage arcade-he does it all!
The Composer is Dead

Junkestra: Mvt. 3

String Quartet #2: I. Chaser

5th Grade Music Field Trip

Space FACE Activity

 

 

New Program Dates!!

September's Composer of the Month

 The kids think this month's composer is one cool guy! Michael Giacchino is well known for being a video game, television, and film composer! This month we've focused on how much music effects a story and it's emotion-which is why music is SO important in movies. Students have learned lots of new vocab words like film, motive/theme, soundtrack, and more!

Married Life from Up

 The Glory Days from The Incredibles

                                     *Watch for The Incredibles at 6 minutes!

Jurassic World Theme

This movie is too new to have any accessible video clips so we imagined our own to the soundtrack!

2015-2016 Program Dates

Mark these programs on your calendar so you don't miss one! (These dates are subject to change, if this happens, a letter will be sent home with the changed day.)

Can't wait to see you support Marshall Music!

 6th Grade    October 14th @ 6 P.M.

3rd Grade    November 5th @ 6 P.M.
4th Grade    November 11th @ 6 P.M.

1st Grade    December 2nd @ 6 P.M.

Kindergarten    December 9th @ 6 P.M.

EC/Pre-K   December 16th @  10 A.M.
5th Grade    February 3rd @ 6 P.M.
2nd Grade     February 10th @ 6 P.M.

August's Composer of the Month

 We kicked off the school year with one of the most famous composers of all time, Johannes Brahms! The kids are always so excited to start Composer of the Month and honestly shout and dance excitedly on Fridays when I announce it :) We discussed Brahms life, looked at pictures, and studied three of his popular works. You probably will recognize one, even if you've never studied Brahms!

Lullaby/Cradle Song

Hungarian Dance #5

String Quintet #1 Mvt. 3

 Bonus Funny Video

April's Composer of the Month

 This month we met a man who was not only an acclaimed American composer, pianist, and music lecturer, but a famous conductor as well!! The kids enjoyed learning about Leonard Bernstein and how versatile he was. We reviewed important music vocab like conductor, genre, overture, musical, and others. It was fun to see how passionate he was about bringing music to everyone with his Young People's Concerts. What a great last composer of the year!
Candide Overture

 Maria from West Side Story

 I Hate Music: Cycle of 5 Kid Songs

4th-6th Talent Show!!

March's Composer of the Month

 This month we dived head-first into the amazing world of jazz and the kids LOVED it! There are so many great jazz composers and musicians, but perhaps the most influential and talented one is this month's composer-Duke Ellington! Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was an American composer (1000+ pieces), pianist, and bandleader of jazz orchestras with a career spanning over 50 years. We enjoyed listening to and learning some of the major differences of jazz and other genres. Students even got to try improvising on instruments and scatting with some of the tracks!
Take the A Train (Billy Strayhorn collaboration)

C Jam Blues

 It Don't Mean a Thing

Arr! 5th Grade's Program Was a Scurvy Good One!

  5th Grade was transformed into buccaneers in their fun music program, How to Be a Pirate in 7 Easy Songs. They learned how to talk and dress like a pirate, raise the Jolly Roger, follow a treasure map to find loot, and so much more! Both the kids and audience alike was full of pirate pride by the end of the program-check out our swashbuckling photos!

February's Composer of the Month

This month's composer is one of the oldest known composers of all time, dating back over 900 years ago!  Hildegard of Bingen was an extraordinary 12^th century nun, missionary, prophet and an expert in many subjects. She is known for her work as a composer, writer, philosopher, poet, playwright, linguist, scientist, physician, and more. One of the most remarkable women from the Medieval era. Hildegard transcended gender, status, and social norms and restrictions to become one of the most famous people of her day and continues to inspire today. We loved learning about life in the Medieval time period and how her music differs drastically from ours today.
 O Aeterne Deus

 O Jerusalem

 O Frondens Virga 
 

Upcoming 5th Grade Program

January's Composer of the Month

This month's composer, Johann Sebastian Bach, is considered to be one of the most influential composers of all time! Bach was born during the Baroque time period in Germany and studied violin, harpsichord, and organ. He married twice and had 20 children in all, but sadly only 9 lived past childhood. At one point in his career, Bach attempted to quit his job working for a duke and was thrown in jail for a month! He used that time to compose music. Near the end of his life he started going blind and died from a botched eye surgery. In total, Bach composed over 1200 pieces in many genres.

Minuet in G Major

Toccata and Fugue in D Minor

Cello Suite No. 1

November's Composer of the Month

What better way to get into the holiday spirit, then with a composer who wrote one of the most popular and performed Christmas-time ballets of all time?! Peter (Pytor) Tchaikovsky has written some of the greatest works of the Romantic Era, including the 1812 Overture, 10 operas, orchestral pieces, but is best known for his famous ballets (The Nutcracker, Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake, and more). Tchaikovsky was also the first Russian composer whose music made a lasting impression internationally and he helped capture the unique sound of Russian music. This month we enjoyed learning dances, cup-passing games, and silly lyrics to our 3 pieces from The Nutcracker!
Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy

 

 

March of the Toy Soldiers

 Trepak

5th Grade Music Trip