🎵—MUSIC at MORLEY

Burnaby Music Teachers have put together 2 videos for you. Can you see my  message to all of you?

May 4^this Music Monday. This year due to the COVID pandemic, it is the first Music Monday @ Home! From 6am-6pm, the broadcast will include live streams found on the Music Monday website:  www.musicmonday.ca/livestream  and Coalition Canada’s YouTube channel.

Please note the times noted from Coalition Canada are eastern time zones. Here in BC, there is a 3 hour difference.

Here is the schedule listed in PST time (our time zone)!
6 am Spotlight Celebration
7 am Atlantic/Eastern Canada (featuring musicians from Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and PEI)
8:30 am Quebec (featuring musicians from Quebec; content presented in French)
9:30 am HYMN TO FREEDOM: Music Monday Anthem Singing
9:35 am Spotlight Celebration (repeat from 6am)
10:30 am Ontario (featuring musicians from Ontario)
11:30 am Prairies (featuring musicians from Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta)
1:30 pm Youth 4 Music
2:30 pm Territories (featuring musicians from Nunavut, the NW Territories and the Yukon Territory)
3:30 pm British Columbia (featuring musicians from BC)
4:30 Spotlight Celebration (repeat from 6am and 9:35 am)
5:30 After Party

Pop in and out as often as you can, but be sure to join in for the coast-to-coast-to-coast singing of Hymn to Freedom at 9:30am. This is something the whole family can do together.

Another fun activity is Music Monday Bingo. Click on the Music Monday Bingo Sheet for your card. The BINGO cards are designed to be played during the Spotlight Celebration hours (repeated three times: 6am, 9:35 am and 4:30 pm). Cross off what or who you see.

Head over to the your grade level tab as well. I haven’t posted anything new this week. You can practice “Hymn to Freedom” in preparation for Monday. For intermediates, I see a lot of you need an extension for the Oscar Peterson/Hymn to Freedom assignment. Please get it in by the end of this week (May 8^th).

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Each week I will post a link to a new listening selection. If you have permission, listen and send a picture of your response to me: catherine.raap@burnabyschools.ca . I started an online gallery of artwork I have received from your listening responses. If you would NOT like to have yours added, please let me know when you email me. For privacy reasons, I will edit out names and divisions.

Okay, here are the instructions:

Find a quiet space and listen to the music actively. Active listening is when you listen to music carefully and give it your full attention. (Listen to the music more than once).

Collect the sound with your ears and brain. Think about what you are listening to. Allow the music to affect you and respond to it.

Response options:

• You can move or dance to the music,
• write a story, poem or journal entry,
• create art, or
• build a 3D sculpture with blocks/lego/or any other materials you have at home

Take a picture of your response and send it to me. Don’t forget to write your name, division and the name of the piece you are responding to.

Here are some questions you could consider:

• What do you hear?
• What do you see when you hear this music?
• What do you think about or feel when you hear this music?

May 4^this also Star Wars Day (May the 4^thbe with you.) For this week, our listening selection is a Star Wars Medley sung a cappella by Jimmy Fallon, The Roots and the cast of Star Wars: A Force Awakens.  A medley is a group of different tunes or songs that are played one after another as a single piece of music. How many different tunes can you pick out from this week’s listening? A cappella music is music where people sing without instruments. Can you think of a time when we sang a cappella at school? Head to the resource/links tab to see other Star War music videos.

Also, don’t forget to sing O Canada at 12 noon on Sunday to thank frontline workers.  See the April 20-24 post for more information.

For additional music activities, explore the online resources/links. Check out the gallery too!

Don’t forget to sing O Canada at 12 noon on Sunday to thank frontline workers.  See last week’s post for more information.

Each week I will post a link to a new listening selection. If you have permission, listen and send a picture of your response to me: catherine.raap@burnabyschools.ca . I started an online gallery of artwork I have received from your listening responses. If you would NOT like to have yours added, please let me know when you email me. For privacy reasons, I will edit out names and divisions.

Okay, here are the instructions:

Find a quiet space and listen to the music actively. What does that mean? Active listening is when you listen to music carefully and give it your full attention. (Listen to the music more than once).

Collect the sound with your ears and brain. Think about what you are listening to. Allow the music to affect you and respond to it.

Response options:

• You can move or dance to the music,
• write a story, poem or journal entry,
• create art, or
• build a 3D sculpture with blocks/lego/or any other materials you have at home

Take a picture of your response and send it to me. Don’t forget to write your name, division and the name of the piece you are responding to.

Here are some questions you could consider:

• What do you hear?
• What do you see when you hear this music?
• What do you think about or feel when you hear this music?

For this week, our listening selection is Somewhere Only We Know sung by PS22, an elementary school choir from New York City.  

Music Monday is coming up next week on Monday, May 4th. On that day, at 9:30 am (BC time), there will be a coast-to-coast-to-coast sing–along of Hymn to Freedom (last week’s song). I hope you join in!  Music Monday is an event organized by the Coalition of Canada for Music Education. From 6am-6pm on May 4th, there will also be music celebrations streamed on Coalition Canada’s website, YouTube channel and Facebook page. I’ll send out more information next week. 

Don’t forget to head over to the your grade level tab. The story from last week, Oscar Lives Next Door is still there. For primaries, I have also added a practice video for Hymn to Freedom. For intermediates, you have an assignment on Oscar Peterson and Hymn to Freedom due by the end of the week as well.  

For additional music activities, explore the online resources/links. Check out the gallery too! 

Have you seen commercials of people singing O Canada on TV? As a way to unite the country and thank frontline workers, people are singing O Canada at 12 noon every Sunday. Please join with your family!

You can sing along with the O Canada video or you can sing acapella. Acapella means you are singing without a piano or guitar accompaniment or a track.

Each week I will post a link to a new listening selection. If you have permission, listen and send a picture of your response to me: catherine.raap@burnabyschools.ca . I started an online gallery of artwork I have received from your listening responses. If you would like to have yours added, please let me know when you email me. For privacy reasons, I have edited out names.

Find a quiet space.

Listen to the music actively. What does that mean? Active listening is when you listen to music carefully and give it your full attention. (Listen to the music more than once).

Collect the sound with your ears and brain. Think about what you are listening to. Allow the music to affect you and respond to it.

Response options:

• You can move or dance to the music,
• write a story, poem or journal entry,
• create art, or
• build a 3D sculpture with blocks/lego/or any other materials you have at home

Take a picture of your response and send it to me. Don’t forget to write your name, division and the name of the piece you are responding to.

Here are some questions you could consider:

• What do you hear?
• What do you see when you hear this music?
• What do you think about or feel when you hear this music?

For this week, our listening selection is Hymn to Freedom. The music is by Oscar Peterson. You might remember singing or hearing this at our Remembrance Day Assembly two years ago. If you went to the Intermediate Choir Festival last year, this was the piece we sang all together with all the other schools.

Don’t forget to head over to the your grade level tab as well. I have posted a video to a story inspired by Oscar Peterson’s childhood called Oscar Lives Next Door. For intermediates, I have also posted a practice video for Hymn to Freedom. On May 4^th, people across Canada will be celebrating music by singing this song. I’ll give out more information in the coming weeks.

For additional music activities, explore your grade level tab and the online resources/links. Don’t forget to check out the gallery!

Each week I will post a YouTube link to a new listening selection. If you have permission, listen and send a picture of your response to me: catherine.raap@burnabyschools.ca 

Find a quiet space.

Listen to the music actively. What does that mean? Active listening is when you listen to music carefully and give it your full attention. (Listen to the music more than once).

Collect the sound with your ears and brain. Think about what you are listening to. Allow the music to affect you and respond to it.

Response options:

• You can move or dance to the music,
• write a story, poem or journal entry,
• create art, or
• build a 3D sculpture with blocks/lego/or any other materials you have at home

Take a picture of your response and send it to me. Don’t forget to write your name, division and the name of the piece you are responding to.

Here are some questions you could consider:

• What do you hear?
• What do you see when you hear this music?
• What do you think about or feel when you hear this music?

Our second listening selection is Take Five by Dave Brubeck.

On Thursday night at 8pm on ABC, Disney has a one-hour Family Singalong. It’s a little late for my daughters, but I will be sure to PVR it so they can enjoy it on another day. (Parents you may want to preview, as it is rated PG.) FYI..if you have Shaw Cable, it is channel 200.

For additional music activities, explore your grade level tab and the online resources/links.

Each week I will post a YouTube link to a new listening selection. If you have permission, listen and send a picture of your response to me: catherine.raap@burnabyschools.ca 

Find a quiet space.

Listen to the music actively. What does that mean? Active listening is when you listen to music carefully and give it your full attention.

Collect the sound with your ears and brain. Think about what you are listening to. Allow the music to affect you and respond to it. You can write or draw your response.

Don’t forget to write your name, division and the name of the piece you are responding to.

Here are some questions you could consider:

• What do you hear?
• What do you see when you hear this music? Draw the picture that this music paints in your imagination.
• What do you think about or feel when you hear this music?

Our first listening selection is Fur Elise by Ludwig van Beethoven.

For additional music activities, explore your grade level and the online resources/links.

This blog is currently under construction. However, I do want to welcome you to Morley’s Music blog. I miss seeing you all and making music with you. I hope you are all safe, healthy and well. In the coming weeks, I will be posting music activities and lessons here.

Ms. Raap