Week of May 18 K-5 - Woodwinds

Hello musicians! Great job last week with your Incredibox songs. They were so cool! Below are a couple examples of what you submitted to me. I loved them!

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Example 2
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Example 4


This week's music activities are in two parts. Part 1 is to continue to experiment some more with Incredibox. Try different sounds, muting and unmuting different parts, and substitute one sound for another. You can use last week's Google forms to submit a new song for me.

Part 2 will be exploring different musical instruments. This week's focus will be the woodwind family. Below is a picture of some of the woodwind instruments.

There are many others, but these ones will get us started. Some instruments play higher sounds, some play medium sounds, and other play low sounds. We will explore the instruments starting with those that high sounds and move to those that play low sounds. At the bottom of this post you can find the links to this week's Google forms for K-2 and 3-5. I hope you enjoy learning about the woodwind family this week. 

Flute/Piccolo

The flute and piccolo play some of the highest sounds. There is a small hole at the end of each instrument and the musician blows air across it much like someone blowing air across a glass bottle or jug to make a sounds. Please take a look at the video below of a musician that plays the flute and beatboxes at the same time. It's really cool! 

Recorder

All fourth and fifth graders learn to play this instrument, however the instrument itself very old having been in existence since the 14th an 15th centuries. It sounds similar to a flute, but the instrument goes into your mouth instead of resting on the outside of your mouth. Please take a look at the really cool recorder video below.

 

Oboe

The oboe (and the bassoon later on) are unique in that they use two pieces of wood to make their sound. It's called a double reed. Due to the coronavirus, musicians from around the world have been experimenting with multitrack video recording. That is when one musician plays many different parts of a piece of music and then combines those parts in a computer. This video is an oboe player playing four different parts from the movie Monsters Inc. 

Clarinet

The clarinet has one reed the vibrates against the mouthpiece to produce its tone. Below is another example of multitracking where the same musician plays different parts and puts them together in an app on a device. Here you'll see three clarinets that are the same and one that is different. The larger instrument is called a bass clarinet and is twice as large as the typical clarinet. Please enjoy some music from the Disney movie Up!

 

Saxophone

The saxophone is a hybrid instrument. Adolph Sax wondered what would happen if you tried to combine a brass instrument and woodwind instrument into one. The result was the saxophone. Saxophones use reeds to make their sound. The wood vibrates against the mouthpiece as the musician blows air to produce a tone. The four most common types of saxophones are soprano, alto, tenor, and baritone, all of which are in the video below. 

Bassoon

The bassoons are the low voices of the woodwind family. They use a double reed like the oboe does. Bassoons stand about 4 feet tall, but are almost twice that long. At the very bottom of the instrument there is a loop or "turn around" which makes it much longer that it appears. Below is a video of a bassoon quartet playing some themes from Star Wars!

 

Google Form for Kindergarten, 1st grade, and 2nd grade

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