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This page will be your resource for knowing when our concerts are scheduled, what songs we are singing for each concert, extra practice song files that you can download to your computer, burn to a CD, or upload to your iPod/MP3
player for extra practice, and more. Click on the links below to find out more about what is going on this year in the 8th Grade Chorus!
Thanks,
Mr. Cloonan
FOR
CONCERT CHOIR & BOYS/GIRLS ENSEMBLE INFO:
Click the link on the QUICK LINKS menu sidebar to the left.
The Chorus Handbook, 2009-10 (pdf)
2006 Holiday Concert Photos:
Here are a few photos of the December 20th concert that were
sent to Miss Kohne by a parent of a drumming ensemble member.
Winter Holiday Concert
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
7:00PM, Jr. High Auditorium
Combined Choral Concert
Thursday, March 4, 2010
7:00PM, Jr. High Auditorium
Spring Concert
Thursday, June 3, 2010
7:00PM, Jr. High Auditorium
Click
on the links below to hear samples of some songs we are
singing in chorus this year. Listed next to each selection
is the style it represents, as well as some of the learning
objectives that will be met/discussed in class.
Gaudeamus Hodie - contemporary American
composition, calypso style, 4-hand piano with percussion,
processional, Latin text
Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child -
African-American spiritual, minor tonality, solo
opportunity
Polly Wolly Doodle (midi file) -
American Folk Song, body percussion, additional
instrumental parts
I'm Yours -
contemporary pop selection, solo/small group feature,
guitar accompaniment
100 Years
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contemporary pop selection, unison melody using male
falsetto, close harmonies on refrain
We Will -
collaborative workshop composition, featuring English and
Swahili text, vocal percussion, shaker
I Will Rejoice -
based on a canon by Telemann, Baroque style
Liza (Water Come a Me Eye) -
Jamaican Folk Song, a cappella with percussion
Last Updated:
06/08/2010 |
