Friday, January 25, 2019

5th graders are studying Classical composers and specific pieces within their repertoire.
        It includes and in-depth analysis of the various components that make up a piece of music,
             including tempo, dynamics, rhythm, melody and meter. Here they work to complete a
                        colored chart of the respective elements in each of these categories.









8th grade students work each year on constructing their own dulcimers.
A dulcimer is an Appalachian instrument that is made of a sounding board or box,
trapezoidal in shape, and is plucked, bowed or strummed.

The process begins in the art room with painting the body of the instrument.
Then several sessions are devoted to attaching the fingerboard, bridge,
tuning pegs and strings. Here, they are pictured, gluing all the pieces together.
And voila! They have built their own instrument from scratch.









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