{"id":12279,"date":"2024-08-07T12:51:32","date_gmt":"2024-08-07T02:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/ssc\/?post_type=article&#038;p=12279"},"modified":"2024-08-07T21:10:51","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T11:10:51","slug":"music-at-gioia-house-7","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/ssc\/article\/music-at-gioia-house-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Music at Gioia House"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Curriculum Music in Years 5 and 6<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Curriculum Music Class<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Gioia House curriculum Music classes continue to drill down into the valuable skills and ideas presented through choral and instrumental programs.&nbsp;Our 130th St Dominic\u2019s Day repertoire afforded us the opportunity to look at different expressions of the Catholic Mass \u2013 from a musical and historical perspective. In addition to continuing to develop their notation and score-reading skills, students were able to learn about the history of music notation &#8211; looking back as far as the Gregorian Era to explore \u2018neumes\u2019 and other forms of early music notation that were the precursor to forms of notation we use today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Cecilia Pensini<\/strong><br>Music Teacher Years 5-6<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Curriculum Choral \u2013 Gioia House Choir<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Singing isn\u2019t just about learning songs. Like all curriculum experiences, (and much like a parent hiding vegetables in the lasagne!) we ensure that our students are developing critical aural skills through all these activities! These skills then inform all other directions of musical exploration.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In our weekly Choral time on Tuesdays, we lean towards rich Kodaly and Orff-based pedagogies that support understanding of rhythms and pitches, with students experiencing the use of \u2018solfa\u2019 to develop their relative pitch skills and understanding of intervallic structure within a melody.&nbsp;Use of Kodaly Quodlibet and Canons help develop confidence in part-singing, vocal placement and ensemble blend.&nbsp;It is our intention that these foundational choral experiences will be of life-long benefit to our Gioia House students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Curriculum Instrumental \u2013 Gioia House Strings &amp; Band Program <em>\u2018Mini Maestros\u2019<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Students are experiencing both small group tuition and large ensemble experiences in Gioia House Strings and Band a.k.a. \u2018Mini Maestros\u2019.&nbsp; Brass, Woodwind and Percussion students are now able to apply their understanding of the scale to create new and old melodies, and will be applying these skills in the \u2018Band\u2019 context for the coming weeks. At the end of the year we will host an \u2018open\u2019 rehearsal for parents of \u2018Mini Maestro\u2019 students to celebrate the growth of these young players, while Gioia House Strings students (who are accelerated by weekly individual private tuition) will work hard to perform as part of the Sinfonietta Open Rehearsal later this term.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/72\/2024\/08\/SInfonietta-Breakfast-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/72\/2024\/08\/SInfonietta-Breakfast-1-1024x352.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/72\/2024\/08\/SInfonietta-Breakfast-1-1024x352.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/72\/2024\/08\/SInfonietta-Breakfast-1-300x103.jpg 300w, https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/72\/2024\/08\/SInfonietta-Breakfast-1-768x264.jpg 768w, https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/72\/2024\/08\/SInfonietta-Breakfast-1-1536x527.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/72\/2024\/08\/SInfonietta-Breakfast-1-437x150.jpg 437w, https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/72\/2024\/08\/SInfonietta-Breakfast-1.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>For those Year 6 students in the final semester of their Curriculum instrumental experience, now is a perfect time to consider joining the <strong>College Concert Band <\/strong>or <strong>Sinfonietta Strings <\/strong>as a way to maximise learning and growth and to realise the potential of these experiences!&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To sign up for either of these ensembles you can <a href=\"https:\/\/portal.clipboard.app\/santa-sabina\/activity-selection\">click this link<\/a>. If you have any questions, please email Mr Jameson Choe who oversees the Gioia House Instrumental program, and he will assist you with your query.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jameson Choe &amp; Veronica Tsang<\/strong><br>Acting Heads of Curricular Music 5-12<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><em>To keep up to speed with all the Co-curricular Music offerings and happenings from P-12 at Santa Sabina College, be sure to jump over to our Director\u2019s Page. Reach out to the Music Office if we can assist you with any queries you may have about the opportunities available to your child at Santa Sabina College.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/ssc\/article\/director-of-music-12\/\">Co-curricular Music P-12<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Curriculum Music in Years 5 and 6 Curriculum Music Class Gioia House curriculum Music classes continue to drill down into the valuable skills and ideas presented through choral and instrumental programs.&nbsp;Our 130th St Dominic\u2019s Day repertoire afforded us the opportunity to look at different expressions of the Catholic Mass \u2013 from a musical and historical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":12345,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","article_category":[5],"article_tag":[],"class_list":["post-12279","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","article_category-gioia-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/ssc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/12279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/ssc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/ssc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/ssc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12279"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/ssc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/ssc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"article_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/ssc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_category?post=12279"},{"taxonomy":"article_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/ssc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_tag?post=12279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}