Music Monday - Theme Song

Hymn to Freedom by Oscar Peterson

Music Monday's 2020 anthem is Oscar Peterson’s iconic “Hymn to Freedom,” with lyrics by Harriette Hamilton. At a time when our world can seem divided and fractured, “Hymn to Freedom” sends a message of unity and equality, which resonates as deeply today as it did in the 1960s, when it was embraced as the anthem of the Civil Rights Movement. 

I look forward to joining #TogetherInHarmony with you on Monday, May 4.

Let's sing together!!

Hymn to Freedom - Music Monday Anthem Song

A choir of over 350 youth singing Hymn to Freedom.

Click HERE to learn more about the song, Hymn to Freedom and it's composer and jazz musician Oscar Peterson.

Music Monday Information

Music Monday.

On Monday, May 4, 2020 hundreds of thousands of students, teachers, parents, musicians, and music lovers from coast to coast to coast will celebrate the importance of music in our lives.

Join us online for a nationwide celebration and register for Music Monday!

This year, so Canadians can celebrate safely, we welcome you to our first Music Monday @ Home!

Beginning at 9AM EST in Atlantic Canada, Music Monday will be streamed on the Canadian Coalition website, YouTube channel, and Facebook page.

The day-long broadcast will include a series of exciting regional broadcasts with:

• live performances
• new music from our Youth4Music Ambassadors  
• interactive activities for kids of all ages
• messages from prominent Canadians
• a specially curated Spotlight Celebration, highlighting some of our favourite content from across the country
• and an epic After-Party!
  

Our 2020 Music Monday anthem is Oscar Peterson’s iconic “Hymn to Freedom,” with lyrics by Hariette Hamilton. Check out the Oscar Peterson Learning Guide on the website to read more about this Canadian legend, and champion of music education.  

Families can register online:


Explore the Music Monday website: 

Music Monday theme song , Hymn to Freedom.

Schedule is listed in Atlantic time. Subtract 2 hours for CST/Manitoba times. 

Let's celebrate making music together as a family, school and nation.

Monday, May 4 Seesaw assignment will also be posted here. Stay tuned. 

Music Concept Videos for Grade 3 - 5

FACE

Every Good Boy Does Fine

The Treble Clef Sign

Music Concept Videos for Kindergarten to Grade 2

Quarter Note

Quarter Rest 

Sofege

Music Listening Monday - Famous Manitoban Musicians

Today we are going to begin something called Music Listening Monday. Each Monday I will focus on different genres or types of music. In the Manitoba Music Curriculum, students need to learn about other cultures, times and places. This includes music from the past and present, from our community, Manitoba, Canada and the world. There is so much music out there; unfortunately we cannot cover it all so it will be just a smattering of a variety of music. We briefly cover some of these outcomes in Music class. Because we cannot be together as a class, this is the perfect opportunity to focus on these outcome as we cannot develop some of our other group music making skills at this time. 

Just a friendly reminder that students need to be aware that there are different kinds of music. We may not like it all, and this is perfectly okay, but we need to be respectful and have an open mind as we listen to and experience all kinds of music.

Please note that I have tried to carefully choose songs that are appropriate to listen to "at school". That means that the words of the song as well as the subject and content is "clean" and appropriate for children. 


Your Assignment: 

Below you will find the name of the musician, title of the song, genre or type of music, awards they have won a YouTube video of the musician performing. Click on the musician's name and it will bring you to more information about the musician. If you have your parent's permission, you can explore more music by the musicians on YouTube, Spotify or Apple Music. Enjoy!

1. Watch and listen to ONE or TWO famous Manitoban Musicians. (You can always come back another day and listen to more!) 

2. In Seesaw or an email, tell me: 
          A)which musician you like the best from the ones you                                       listened to and 
          B)what style of music they perform 
        

Neil Young

Harvest Moon

Rock

1989 MTV Video Music Award

1994, 1995, 2001, 2006, 2007, 2011 Juno Award

2010, 2011 Grammy Award

1982 Canadian Hall of Fame

The Guess Who

Share the Land

Rock

1970,1971 Juno Award

1987 Canadian Music Hall of Fame

Chantal Kreviazuk

Invincible

Pop

2000 Juno Award

James Ehnes

Dance of the Goblins

Classical, Violinist

Eleven Juno Awards

2008, 2019 Grammy Award

Tracy Dahl

The Doll Song

Classical, Opera Singer

Juno Award Nominee

Earth Day

Today is Earth Day!! 
April 22, 2020

There are many songs that have themes about the Earth. Some are specifically written for Earth Day. Some are just about nature. These are just a few of my favourites. I hope you enjoy them too. I wish we could be together so that we could sing one of these songs together as a class or school. 

Let me know in Seesaw which is your favourite song.

Have a very happy Earth Day!

  

             

  

Spring!

Spring

by Antonio Vivaldi

Hello Crestview students,

I am sure you are noticing the signs of spring outside. Doesn't it feel great? I love how I can see the signs in my yard like some early spring greenery shooting out of the ground. The other day an amazing thing happened to show me that spring was really on its way..... We have an ornamental apple tree in our yard that grows tiny apples that aren't good to eat. The apples get really soggy and mushy but they hang on throughout the winter months. A week ago, all of a sudden, robins arrived in our yard. For two days the tree and the trees around our yard were full of robins eating these tiny apples. I counted about thirty robins in total! Wow!!! And after two days, the tree did not have a single apple left on it. Then the robins were gone. Flying off in search of nesting sights or more food. It was an amazing sight.

300 years ago, a composer named Antonio Vivaldi wrote a *violin concerto called The Four Seasons.  This is Vivaldi's most famous work of music that he composed. As you can figure out, it is made up of four concertos: Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. If you listen carefully, in each season or movement you can hear musical representations of nature: flowing creeks, singing birds, a sleeping shepherd and his barking dog, buzzing flies, storms, dancers, frozen landscapes and warm winter fires. 

*A violin concerto is music that is composed for a solo violin and small orchestra.

Some people believe that Vivaldi wrote poems to accompany each concerto. This is the poem that supposedly accompanies Spring:

Springtime is upon us.
The birds celebrate her return with festive song,
and murmuring streams are
softly caressed by the breezes.
Thunderstorms, those heralds of Spring, roar,
casting their dark mantle over heaven,
Then they die away to silence,
and the birds take up their charming songs once more.

Today, listen to Spring. If you need help focusing on the music, lie down on the floor, relax your body and close your ideas. See if you can hear the sounds of spring in the music.  Listen for the barking dog in the middle of the Spring concerto. You can hear the "barking" beginning at the 3 minute and 50 second mark in the video. Of course it isn't a real dog barking sound but repeated notes that are a little louder and accented, played by the viola. 

Once you have listened to Spring, complete the Listening Journal worksheet in Seesaw or in the At Home Music Learning package. Return your work to me through Seesaw, send an email to the address in the Music Learning package or save it to return to school at a later date.