MUSIC

MUSIC IN TERM 2

We hit the ground running in Term 2 with a multi-ensemble performance and assembly in Week 1 for ANZAC Day. Our String Ensemble joined with the Liturgy Choir for a performance of In Flanders Fields and we featured our Brass Trio who accompanied Kenya Mari and the Liturgy Choir for an emotional rendition of Amazing Grace.

All classroom music classes are diving into new repertoire and developing their theoretical understanding through performance and ensemble work.

• Year 7 are looking at inverting pentatonic melody in pairs.
• Year 8 are learning that notes have personalities and want to go their own way.
• Year 9 are investigating dance music through the genres of the waltz and Electronic Dance Music (EDM).
• Year 10 are composing songs to perform to the Grade 1 classes, whilst developing their sense of the functional harmony used in Jazz and Art Music.
• Year 11 and 12s are both composing in a range of genres from film music, orchestral processionals, and Jazz Standards.

Our Ensembles are busy preparing for our first combined ensemble musical showcase, Music by the Sea, scheduled for later this term. Families of performers will be invited to an afternoon of music in our College Auditorium. Invitations will come out soon.

As our Department continues to be guided by research, I leave you with a small but powerful consequence of continual sequential musical training.

“Learning music involved all the aspects that account for an effective training of executive functions”

John Goulter

HEAD OF DEPARTMENT – MUSIC & PERFORMANCE

E: jgoulter@stpatscollege.qld.edu.au