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Composer Spotlight: Leonard Bernstein

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Composer Spotlight – Leonard Bernstein From the Activity Guide: Easy Music Composing for Kids Leonard Bernstein was one of America’s best-known composers. He was also an accomplished pianist, conductor, and educator. Learning about Leonard Bernstein is a lot of fun because he was alive recently enough that you can see videos of him in action

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All About the Instruments – String and Woodwind Families

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Instrument Families Orchestra instruments are grouped into four main families: the string family, the woodwind family, the brass family, and the percussion family. Today, we will learn about the string and woodwind families. The String Family String family instruments are any instruments that use vibrating strings to create their sound. In an orchestra, the most

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All About Rhythm

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All About Rhythm From the Activity Guide: Tempo and Rhythm – Let’s Jam! Rhythm in music is patterns of long and short notes combined together. Rhythm is what gives the music it’s groove. Rhythms can be simple- a song like Twinkle, Twinkle Litte Star has the same quarter note rhythm throughout the whole piece. Or

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Bird Songs – French

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Les compositeurs à travers l’histoire ont utilisé leur musique pour raconter une histoire ou pour imiter les sons qu’ils entendaient autour d’eux. Certains des sons les plus utilisés que les compositeurs ont imités dans leur musique étaient les chants d’oiseaux. Chants d’oiseaux dans la musique d’orchestre Écoutons quelques chants d’oiseaux dans la musique d’orchestre! Beethoven

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