This week's assignment + interesting details about our group's songs...

Hello young singers!

Your next week's assignment is to:

1) finish your first workbook. If you already finished your first workbook please continue from where you are and complete 4-6 pages until next week's meeting. Eager for more?? Continue as you wish - our great Simon will mark it all up to make sure you got it right!

2) complete the key major scale page you were given.
Remember the two tricks:
For scales with sharps - find the right most sharp and just go up a half step - that's your Major scale!
Example: what is the right most sharp in the key signature that has 3 sharps? G sharp. Go up a half step - you're on A - that's your major scale! The A Major scale!
For scales with flats - find the second to last flat and that is already your Major scale!
Example: what is the second to last flat in the key signature that has 4 flats? A flat. That's it! That's your major scale! The A flat Major scale!

You guys did a very good job figuring out these major scale key signatures during our last session, so continue the good work!

3) memorize the movements and gestures from the following videos. You already know the music and words, so enjoy learning the rest...

Sesere Eeye
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SATEqK2NK5Q
This is another excellent link for a performance of the song. This song is traditionally sung in a bright, nasal style which we will attempt to imitate in class to see how we sound. It is form the Torres Strait Islands, off the coast of Australia. (Between Australia and Papua New Guinea.) You will find specific information on the second page here.

Bedu Pako Baramasa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Whp-McnWZzI
This piece of music is a folksong from Uttarakhand, a state in the north of India, in the Himalayas. More than anything else, the words speak about friendship - the friendship between the singer of the song and the singer’s friend, Narani (My friend, Narani - meri chhela, Narani.)

Doraji

This is a very old song from Korea. “Doraji” is a beautiful flower native to east Asia. The singer of the song walks through these flowers on a mountain pass, and they remind the singer of days from his or her childhood.

Imagine 

This is a song by John Lennon (of the Beatles) written after the group broke up. It was recorded in 1971 (nine years before his death), and encourages everyone to imagine a world where all people live together in harmony.

Enjoy your weekend!
Ron