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Welcome to the Ewing, Elydale, Rose Hill and Thomas Walker Bands Web Page.

 

Here you can learn about our band program and why there should be a band program. You can also learn about instruments, reading music and music theory. There are also interesting links you can follow. Enjoy and thanks for visiting.

 

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BAND PROGRAM

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Beginning Band

Students have the opportunity to participate in Band starting in the fifth grade.

There are no fees to join band. All a student needs is an instrument and the desire to learn. The Beginning Band Program School is the program for students who have never played an instrument or are just getting started. Students going into beginning band do not need to know what instrument they want to play or have any previous musical knowledge

 

Method books and sheet music are provided without cost. Clarinet and Saxophone reeds are available for purchase at school for $1.00.

 

 

 

During the first two or three weeks of school, the different instruments will be demonstrated to the fifth-grade class.

Students will get a chance to handle the instruments and try to make a sound on them.

After the demonstration period and when the students have made the decision to join, they are expected to stay in the class for the entire year.

 

Students can obtain an instrument through a rent-to-own program, borrow an instrument, or if an instrument cannot be obtained; contact the director to explore other available options.

 

 

Class requirements.

Students need to show up to each class on time with their instruments, music and supplies.

 

Home Practice.

Students should practice a minimum of 15 minutes each day.

 

Performances and rehearsals.

Band students in grade 5-7 will have two required performances during the year; the Winter and Spring Concerts.

High school band members will have a winter and spring concert, as well as perform at football games, march in parades and participate in Kaleidoscope. Attendance for band members at a performance is required.

 

What is taught?

Material taught in band follows the State Music SOLs (Standard of Learning) and National Standards of Music.

 

National Music Standards State Music Standards No Child Left Behind VA Dept. Of Ed.

 

 

 

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HAVE SOME FUN

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Activities And Games

Compose Music, Name the Composer, Name the Instrument and more at artsalive.com.

 

BBC-Radio 3 Music Games

Cool music game page.

 

Beethoven's Baseball Game

Play Beethovens Baseball at dsokids.com.

 

Classicsforkids.Com

Composer Time Machine, Rockin Rhythm Master, Compose Your Own Music and

Note Name Game.

 

Color A Picture

Print out and color a picture of your favorite instrument at coloring.ws.

 

Color Another Picture

Print and color a Trumpet, Saxophone, Drum, Clarinet, Violin or Drum at kidscolorpages.com.

 

Color A Strange Picture

Print out and color a man in a fish costume playing the electric guitar at troutmusic.com.

 

Creatingmusic.Com

Creatingmusic.com is a children's online creative music environment for children of all ages. It's a place for kids to compose music, play with musical performance, music games and music puzzles. Come discover fun and easy ways to make music!

 

Gamequarium.Com

Over two dozen cool things to do at this site.

 

Musician Jokes

 

Kidsdomain.Com

Over a dozen music related games to play online.

 

Music Hangman Game

Play Music Hangman at dsokids.com.

 

Virtual Museum Of Musical Inventions

See and hear some interesting instruments students have made at musicinventions.org.

 

Name That Instrument Game

See if you can you match the sound to the instrument.

 

Odd and Strange Musical Instruments

Visit Oddmusic.com to see and hear a contrabass saxophone, electronic bagpipe, LEGO Harpsichord and many more unique musical instruments.

 

Play An Instrument Online

Visit monkeyc.org and play a gamelan instrument online.

 

Play Some More Instruments Online

Visit wrybread.com to play gamelan instruments online.

 

Scramble-Saurus

Play Scramble-Saurus and unscramble the instrument words at funbrain.com.

 

Sesame Street Music Zone

Brought to you by the letter M.

 

Stay Afloat

Play the Stay Afloat game at funbrain.com.

 

The First Vienna Vegetable Orchestra

This group plays music exclusively on vegetable instruments: carrots and cucumbers instead of guitars and drums. (Concert Tour sponsored by Miracle-Gro?)

 

The Piano Player

Test your music reading skills by playing The Piano Player game at funbrain.com.

 

Music World Records

Visit Guinness World Records to see the biggest, smallest and longest.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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WHY TEACH MUSIC?

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MUSIC MAKES THE DIFFERENCE!

Visit the following sites to learn why.

 

American Music Conference

AMC 's goal is to build credibility for music and music education, especially at an early age, and to expand that portion of the population that enjoys and makes its own music.

 

Childrens Music Workshop

Music Advocacy articles.

 

International Society For Music Education

 

International Foundation For Music Research

The International Foundation for Music Research (IFMR) was founded in 1997 to support scientific research to explore the relationship between music and physical and emotional wellness, with particular attention to the elderly population, the impact of music making on at-risk youth, and music education and the effect of music and music making. IFMR also convenes scientists, educators and others around critical issues in music research and disseminates research through its publication, IFMR News, and various on-line research referral services and archives.

 

MuSICA

MuSICA Research Notes is a newsletter of analysis and commentary on the broad field of research on music and behavior, including evolution, brain mechanisms, child development, perception, learning, memory, performance, health and related topics by Dr. Norman M. Weinberger.

 

Music Education Facts And Figures

 

Music Educators National Conference

Read about the positive effects of music on learning.

 

Music Friends

Our students need the benefits of an education that includes music. Studies show that learning music can improve math and science skills, language skills and increase spatial I.Q.

 

SAT Scores And Music Education

Students of the Arts outperform their non-arts peers on the SAT.

 

Support Music

Music and the Arts are vital to every childs education. Is your child's music program in danger of being cut? This site offers effective tips for taking action and the latest evidence of music's importance.

 

The John Merrow Report

Veteran NewsHour education reporter John Merrow investigates education's headline-making issues, as well as those we don't hear about. Watch Saving the Arts - How national leadership, teamed with grassroots support, worked to put arts education back into schools.

 

Why Instrumental Music?

The benefits of participation in instrumental music are endless.

 

Why Music Matters

Top Ten Reasons in support of music study.

 

Why Teach Music?

Read this article at The Music Education Madness Site by Deborah Jeter.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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LEARN MORE ABOUT

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Classical Music

Learn all about classical music at soyouwanna.com.

 

Instrument Building

Learn how to build your own instrument, music history, home recording, MIDI, MP3 and more at wannalearn.com

 

Jazz

Learn all about Jazz at soyouwanna.com.

 

Local Musicians

Watch local musicians and bands perform on Open Mic,

a weekly show on your local PBS channel produced by Blue Ridge Public Television.

 

Music

Visit Thinkquest.org to learn about music instruments, history and theory.

 

Musical Instruments

Visit this datadragon.com site to learn more about musical instruments.

 

Music Reading

Visit this datadragon.com page to learn how to read music.

 

Music Theory

Free online, self paced course about music theory from free-ed.net.

 

Music Theory

A great music theory course from Ricci Adams at musictheory.net.

 

NPR - National Public Radio

Listen to NPRs All Songs Considered, a multimedia, on-line music program. You can listen to music while viewing images of the artists. You can also read text about the music as it is playing.

 

Opera

Learn all about Opera at soyouwanna.com.

 

PBS - Public Broadcast System

Music, Dance and Cinema broadcast schedules, multimedia presentations and educational resources.

 

Songwriting

Free online course on Songwriting.

 

The Free Music Education Center

Want to learn to play keyboard, piano or guitar by yourself? Want to compose or write songs?
Want to learn about classical figures? Visit the website.

 

This Day In Music History

 

 

 

 

 

 

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LEE COUNTY LINKS

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Learn more about Lee County

Lee County Links at netvaly.org.

 

Lee County Links At VA Village

Information and links on Lee County.

 

Lee County Public Schools Website

 

Lee County Statistics

All the numbers on population and income are here.

 

Lee County Website

A site all about Lee County Virginia!

Message Board, Chat Room, Photos, Local News, Local Events, Classifieds, History of Lee County, Genealogy Resources and more!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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MUSIC NEWS

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