Listen to this very famous piece of music by the German composer Carl Orff (1895-1982).
How is the music changing?
Can you imagine a story to go with the music?
If this was film music, what would the film be about?
Category Archives: Year 1
Down by the bay
NIST Song (YMCA)
Sorry about this, but it had to be done ……
N I S T Song (YMCA)
Kazoo solo
Young kid, there’s no need to feel down.
I said, young kid, pick yourself off the ground.
I said, young kid, ’cause you’re in a new town,
There’s no need to be unhappy.
Young kid, there’s a place you can go.
I said, young kid, when you’re feeling so low
You can learn there, and I’m sure you will find
Many ways to have a good time.
It’s fun to learn at the N I S T
It’s fun to learn at the N I S T
They have everything for us kids to enjoy,
You can hang out and make some noise
N I S T
It’s fun to learn at the N I S T
You can learn some new things,
You can make some new friends,
You can do whatever you feel …
Young kid, are you listening to me?
I said, young kid, what do you want to be?
I said, young kid, you can make real your dreams.
But you’ve got to know this one thing!
No one does it all by themself.
I said, young kid, put your pride on the shelf,
And just hang there, at the N I S T
I’m sure they can help you today. X X X X X
It’s fun to learn at the N I S T
It’s fun to learn at the N I S T
They have everything for us kids to enjoy,
You can hang out and make some noise.
N I S T
It’s fun to learn at the N I S T
You can learn some new things,
You can make some new friends,
You can do whatever you feel …
Young kid, I was once in your shoes.
I said, I was down and out with the blues.
I felt no one cared if I were alive.
I felt the whole world was so tight …
That’s when someone came up to me,
And said, young kid, take a walk up the street.
There’s a place there called the N I S T
They can start you back on your way. X X X X X
It’s fun to learn at the N I S T
It’s fun to learn at the N I S T
You can learn some new things,
You can make some new friends,
You can do whatever you feel …
N I S T – It’s fun to learn at the N I S T
Young kid, young kid, there’s no need to feel down.
Young kid, young kid, get yourself off the ground.
Kazoo solo
N I S T !
Active listening and Creative Composers
The composer Edvard Grieg liked to compose stories in his music.
Here are two different stories by him.
Be an active listener.
Think of action that might fit these pieces of music.
What are the stories he is trying to tell?
How is the music changing?
Secret Sound
Ms.Nid’s Secret Cave is coming back again!!! Prepare your ears, children, to get instruments back from her….
Composers choose and organise sounds.
Year 1 have been exploring patterns in music from different times and places.
This is a slide-show of students from year 1 composing their own melody patterns, inspired by our resident classroom composer – “Rat-hoven”.
Enjoy.
‘Roll over Beethoven!!’ on PhotoPeach
I like to move it – from the movie ‘Madagascar’
Here is another example of a pattern low down in the music.
It stays the same throughout the music.
The rhythm of the pattern is: ta ta ta titi / ta ta titi titi /
Music Patterns from Johann Sebastien Bach
Prelude in C
Listen to the patterns in J S Bach’s music and follow the coloured dots and shapes.
Compare it with the version below.
Which one was played by a computer and which one by a human at the piano?
How do you know?