Welcome to our new collaborative project - Our Music Rooms! From one music room in Australia at St Scholastica's College, Sydney, to the music room in St Wolstan's Community School in Kildare.
This project will see us teach each other about our national music and we will explore two other types of music - Cuban and African.
To get us started here is a little video of TY class Cairdeas during their recent African Drumming workshop. Enjoy.
Find out more about African music on the African music page!
Saturday 11 April 2015
Saturday 18 May 2013
Aoibhinn pronounces some Irish words
This is Aoibhinn's end of year IT project. Listen how to pronounce the names of the instrumenst in Irish or "as gaeilge".
Monday 13 May 2013
An Irish Polka - for Peg and Maggie!
The St Wolstan's Traditional Irish Music group recorded two traditional Irish polkas today, called "Meg Ryan's" and "Maggie in the Woods"
Mr Kiely is on the Banjo, Shannon on the guitar and Emily on the piano in the back!
Ms Kirrane, Niamh, Alison, Anjadejesu, and Roisín are on the tin whistles.
Bennery is on the traditional Irish flute. Do you notice how different the trad flute is to the classical flute?
Ciara and Ms Mahon are on the fiddles. Can you spot the difference in the ways both the fiddle and the classical violin are held and played?
Can you spot the change from the Peg Ryan's polka to Maggie in the Woods?
Saturday 11 May 2013
An Irish Jig
The Traditional Irish Music group practice every Thursday in the Music Room. Today we recorded a traditional Irish jig called Ryan's Fancy.
Mr Kiely is playing the Banjo, Shannon is playing guitar and Emily is hiding on the piano in the back! Ms Kirrane, Niamh, Alison, Anjadejesu, and Roisín are playing tin whistles. Bennery is sitting playing the traditional Irish flute. Can you see how it is different to the concert flute used in classical music?
Ciara and Ms Mahon play the fiddle. Do you notice any similarities between the fiddle and the Classical violin?
Mr Kiely is playing the Banjo, Shannon is playing guitar and Emily is hiding on the piano in the back! Ms Kirrane, Niamh, Alison, Anjadejesu, and Roisín are playing tin whistles. Bennery is sitting playing the traditional Irish flute. Can you see how it is different to the concert flute used in classical music?
Ciara and Ms Mahon play the fiddle. Do you notice any similarities between the fiddle and the Classical violin?
Some Irish Instruments
TY class have a short video to produce as part of their I.T assessment this year. Their project was to make a short video using images and/or video. They had to include captions and music. Lisa made this one about Irish music. The names of the songs in her video are:
Song 2: The Fishermans Island; and its a reel
Song 3: It was a hornpipe
Song 4: 'The Moving Cloud' and it is a reel.
Look out for these Irish words:
Ceol na hÉireann - Irish music
An Cairdín - the accordian
An Fliúit - the flute
An cairdín agus an fliúit - the accordian and the flute
An Fhidil - the fiddle
Watch how the players tap their feet to the music. Why do they do this?
The symbols over the letters are called fadas.
On a PC: To type a fada on a letter hold the 'AltGr' button (to the right of the space bar) and press the vowel at the same time. Eg. AltGr + a = á
On an Apple computer: Type option-vowel for áéíóú and shift-option-vowel for ÁÉÍÓÚ.
On an iPhone or iPad: Simply keep your finger pressed on the letter you need to use a fada with. Your iPhone or iPad will display the extended keyboard, which gives you lots of options to choose from.
Most important to remember - a fada ALWAYS points to the right.
Song 1: 'The Pipe on the Hob' and its a Jig
Song 2: The Fishermans Island; and its a reel
Song 3: It was a hornpipe
Song 4: 'The Moving Cloud' and it is a reel.
Look out for these Irish words:
Ceol na hÉireann - Irish music
An Cairdín - the accordian
An Fliúit - the flute
An cairdín agus an fliúit - the accordian and the flute
An Fhidil - the fiddle
Watch how the players tap their feet to the music. Why do they do this?
The symbols over the letters are called fadas.
On a PC: To type a fada on a letter hold the 'AltGr' button (to the right of the space bar) and press the vowel at the same time. Eg. AltGr + a = á
On an Apple computer: Type option-vowel for áéíóú and shift-option-vowel for ÁÉÍÓÚ.
On an iPhone or iPad: Simply keep your finger pressed on the letter you need to use a fada with. Your iPhone or iPad will display the extended keyboard, which gives you lots of options to choose from.
Most important to remember - a fada ALWAYS points to the right.
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