September
Students in Divisions 1 and 2 will be starting the year learning about and participating in the Philipino song/dance Tinkling.
Here is a playlist of links to videos and explanations of this traditional song and dance.
We will be learning this dance to focus on the concepts of Beat and Meter.
Beat is equal measurements of time
Meter is the way we group beats in music
The traditional song and dance of Tinikling is in 3 meter (3 beats per group). It is important that all of the participants feel and perform this beat accurately and together, or else the steps will not work.
We will also work on these steps in 4 meter in order to feel the difference and understand how meter can change, depending on the feeling you want for your song.
For this term, we will be exploring the concepts of Beat, Rhythm and Meter so the children can eventually compose a song in a group in the style of Stomp.