For our last week in music we worked hard to complete our compositions for the instrumental section of the ‘I’ve Got the Back To School Blues’ song.

We used notes from the pentatonic scale for our melodies and some of us worked with partners to create a joint composition.

Below are audio clips of our finished pieces.

Aleks & Taylor:

 

Aeris:

 

Alisha & Ella:

 

Alyssa:

 

Ellie:

 

Finley:

 

Hayden & Orla:

 

Owen:

 

Ifor & Eden:

 

Paige & James:

 

Panna:

 

Sophie & Leo:

 

Steven:

 

Willow & Hailey:

Below are two audio files of the class performing the song ‘Back to School Blues’ an instrumental section played on xylophones and glockenspiels.

 

Our next step is to compose our own melodies for the instrumental section.

In Music this term we have been learning about the Blues genre which originated in the southern parts of America among African Americans at the turn of the 20th Century.  It started in the region of the Mississippi River and as the people migrated north looking for work, they took their music with them and the Delta Blues changed and developed into the Chicago Blues. From there, the Blues spread across America and beyond.

The class recently learned a song called ‘I’ve Got the Back to School Blues’ and they loved it so much, they even came up with their own choreography and added some air guitar too!