Rehearsing

In this section we are going to practise with staves and scores. You will find exercises with notes, rests, time signatures, etc. and famous melodies to enjoy. But before, you are going to read the paragraph below and think about the rules for rehearsing and performing.

Before practising the instrument exercises, we are going to reflect on some rules for rehearsal and some for public performance. Remember we have already seen some rules for the music class. We are going to use a cooperative learning technique called Write Around: in groups of four students, you have to write the rules mentioned before on a piece of paper (click on the word TIP to get some ideas or read this article to get some more) and, after some time, the group has to pass the paper to the next group, who then takes the time to read over what the previous group wrote and take notes on interesting ideas or disagreements. The process repeats till every group gets its own paper. Brainstorm the ideas and write the final rules on the board. Now read these from The Royal College of Music, London and see if there is something you would like to add or discuss. Once there is an agreement, a group creates an infographic with with the rehearsal rules and a second one with the public performance rules, groups three and four create posters with the same rules respectively. You can use canva, visme or any other software.

Here you have some exercises to play with recorders or xylophones and keep on practising notes and time signatures. You have the corresponding video to follow the melody as the video plays. Click on the three dots on the bottom right of the video and choose the option picture-in-picture (imagen-en-imagen), a floating window will open. You can also click on  this symbol to widen the screen.

This melody is a musical arrangement of Scarborough fair, a 12th century English ballad whose author is unknown. A lot of musicians have sung and versioned it, including the Galician folk band Luar na Lubre, which titled it Romeiro ao lonxe. 

Here we have a muic arrangement of that medieval song. The lirycs have been changed. The first score is for recorder, xylophone, glockenspiel and tambourine, the second for marimba xylophone, glockenspiel and tambourine and the third one for voice, xylophone, glockenspiel and tambourine. If you click on the name of the instruments you can get the a PDF document with the score to print. Your teacher will tell you which instruments to use. Remember you can follow the score with the video.