by Kirsten LLOYD | Sep 27, 2023 | Grade 7, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Music, The Grades
In Grade 7, the students are starting to dive into Adaptive Soundtracks. Many of these students have plenty of hours experience interacting with this style of Music as it is the technical name of Video Game Music. We have started by asking the question, “What...
by Kirsten LLOYD | Sep 27, 2023 | Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 9, Music, The Grades
The United Nations released the Sustainable Development Goals in 2015 and they have become important touchstones as we think about how to work towards making our world a better place. In Grade 9, the students are using their growing compositional skills to compose a...
by Kirsten LLOYD | Sep 27, 2023 | Grade 11, Grade 11 & 12 (DP), Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Music, The Grades
For the past few weeks, the Grade 11 DP Music students have been diving into the foundations of Music theory and the Mathematics that governs western tonality. To finish up, they have been asked to analyze and dissect the famous Cello suite no. 1 in G Major by J.S....
by Kirsten LLOYD | Sep 14, 2023 | Grade 11 & 12 (DP), Grade 12, Music, Secondary Music
For AOI 3 (Absolute Music), the Grade 12 DP Music students are learning about experimental and avant garde composition techniques popularized during the 20th century. Instead of focusing on the traditional ideas of tonality and melody, many composers began to look...
by Kirsten LLOYD | Sep 6, 2023 | Grade 10, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 8, Grade 9
This year, the grade 8s, 9s, and 10s have MYP support on their schedule. The purpose of this course is to help student develop study skills and self-learning tools, all centered around the ATLs. As their academic careers become more rigorous and challenging,...
