Today the fifth grade discussed Edvard Grieg, a Norwegian composer. We talked about how he incorporated folk songs of Norway into his compositions. We then listened to "In the Hall of the Mountain King" from the Peer Gynt Suite and how Grieg used, changes in texture (layers of instruments), dynamics (loud and soft), pitch (high and low) and tempo (fast and slow) to create tension as Peer Gynt ran up the mountain to save the princess.
We have begun playing our own arrangement of "In the Hall" on the keyboards and are very excited about this. They each have printed music of a simple arrangement of the piece and are working on playing individual parts. It sounds spooky and is a wonderful prelude to Halloween.
Boo!
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