SONGS TO LEARN FOR SHOW!!

2a Media Renaissance Music Videos....(5 lines comment!)

C.I.S. 6th grade Homework on Ancient Greek's music

C.I.S. 7th and 8th grade + Southlands Homework years 8M + 8S

Choose one of these compositions and answer the questions given in class

Ars Nova clip (for C.I.S. 7th grade to analyze)

Vocal exercises and warm ups

Curwen Hand Signs!

What are those strage hand signs that we use in class to sing?
Well, in the 18th century, John Spencer Curwen drew upon an earlier music teaching system known as Norwich Sol-fa, which had been devised by Sarah Glover, and developed hand signs to go with the solfege syllables (do re mi, etc.).
Kodály integrated these hand signs into his teaching methods.

Hand signs are a way of giving a physical placement for a vocal pitch. The low "do" begins at your midsection. Each pitch is then above the previous one. Thus, you have the hand signs going up when the pitch goes up. The upper "do" is at eye level.

I've attached a small video to show you what can be done with Curwen hand-signs...