General and Choral Music

Thomas Prince School, Princeton, MA

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General Music Updates: Kindergarten Grade1 Grade2 Grade3 Grade4 Grade5 Grade6 Grade7 Grade8

Choral Music Links A Little Bit about Miss Nowak Volunteer in the Music Room

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Graduation Song: Time of My Life – David Cook

Click the link above to sing-a-long with the recording.

Chorus Events Spring 2008

Thursday 5/29 Spring Concert

Saturday 5/14 Flag Day Ceremony – Woodlawn Cemetery, Princeton 11:00AM

Monday 6/16 Flag Day Assembly at TPS

Choral Music Links

Below are some links to our chorus music. They take a very long time to download, but once you have finished the download they will be easier to open next time. The recording program has created some skips in the music. Just ignore the skips. This music is good for learning your part at home and for starting to memorize the lyrics on your own.

General Music Updates

Updated 1/16/08

Kindergarten – Kindergarten has begun transferring do, re, mi’s to letter names on the staff.

Grade 1 – Grade 1 is learning how to describe and identify different kinds of notes including the quarter, eighth, half and sixteenth note. They have also been singing in triple time instead duple time recently to feel the difference.

Grade 2 – Grade 2 is learning how to break music into phrases and sections, along with rhythm syllables. Most recently they have been square dancing to differentiate sections of music.

Grade 3 –Grade 3 students need to always bring a pencil recorder and lesson book to class. Please help them with this by keeping these items stored in their school bag so that they always get back to school.

Grade 4 – Grade 4 is just beginning to learn a repertoire of American folk songs and history related material to work with the 4^th grade history curriculum.

Grade 5 – Grade 5 has gone through a quick overview of medieval, classical and baroque music. They are beginning to learn about ¾ time and will shortly be waltzing.

Grade 6 –Grade 6 is using specific intervals to compose music which they will make final drafts in the Finale computer music program and play on the glockenspiels

Grade 7 – Ask them the difference between major and minor and about key signatures. They should be able to tell you about these items. Shortly grade 7 will be venturing into the world of blues.

Grade 8 –Grade 8 is writing school spirit songs. They will be submitted for judging. The finalist will be kept as the official Thomas Prince School Spirit song.

A Little Bit about Miss Nowak

Miss Nowak has been teaching private and group performing arts lessons since 1997. She has previously taught six years of public school general & choral music and drama programs encompassing grades K - 12. She has performed with OperaUnMet in Boston, MA and multiple community theaters throughout New England. Some of her hobbies include weaving, card making and contra dance. Miss Nowak believes that arts education is a multi-generational process including traditions collected across time. Younger generations learn the value of the arts and carry it with them adding, altering and experimenting to adjust to our ever changing environment.