Listening Examples: Quality Performance

Directions: Use your google accounts to comment on these 2 questions for these three videos. 

What qualities make a good performance? 
Are these good performances and why or why not? 

1. Eric Whitacre - Eric Whitacre's Virtual Choir 2.0, 'Sleep'  
https://youtu.be/6WhWDCw3Mng 

2. I Wish/Play That Funky Music - Gentleman's Rule [Official Video] 
 https://youtu.be/miWJdXIGDVo 

3. Fergie Performs The U.S. National Anthem / 2018 NBA All-Star Game

https://youtu.be/V5cOvyDpWfM

Unique Instruments: What family?

Directions: Using your google accounts, comment on which family you believe these instruments should be placed and why. We've been learning about Strings, Woodwinds, Brass and Percussion.
Which family would you place these instruments and why? Please number your answers.

1. Can't Feel My Face - Walk off the Earth (feat. Scott Helman)

https://youtu.be/eJ3H0Njb1As

2. Adèle & Zalem, ...... Duet

https://youtu.be/oXBGZoBYaLY

3. Wintergatan - Marble Machine (music instrument using 2000 marbles)

https://youtu.be/IvUU8joBb1Q

4. Luca Stricagnoli - FEEL GOOD INC. (Gorillaz)

https://youtu.be/Z6_HlOqy2C0

5. Simon Gresswell Plays ....., Big Carl

https://youtu.be/AH32B8nUHxk

Listening Assignment: Happy

Directions: Use your google accounts to comment using musical terms like tempo, dynamics, instrumentation and phrasing that we’re studying in 4th and 5th grade music. How do these musical attributes change the music? Which version do you like and why?

Please listen to these drastically different versions. 
Pharrell Williams - Happy (Video) 
https://youtu.be/ZbZSe6N_BXs

Pharrell Williams - Happy: Trombone Loop

https://youtu.be/ZxODzxY6AvI

HAPPY - Walk off the Earth Ft. Parachute

https://youtu.be/IbVoo7YLWnI

Music Rocks at PRI

Welcome to music at Paul Revere Intermediate. What has been your favorite part about learning music this year?