Recorder & Orff Ensemble I
$204.00 – $390.00
Monthly Tuition (4-week) $159
Initial payment includes registration fee & required materials. Students with piano option – please call Music Rhapsody office at 310-376-8646 for piano schedule. Returning students must have been enrolled in the most recent school year and/or summer.
Description
Recorder & Orff Ensemble – Grades 4 and up without Parent
Music Rhapsody | 1603 Aviation Boulevard Redondo Beach, California 90278 | (310) 376-8646
Space limited, enroll today!
Class length: 1 hr 15 minutes.
Whether your child wants to be in a rock band or in the symphony orchestra, the group playing skills and creativity exercised in the Recorder & Orff ensemble I classes will no doubt give them the confidence they need for a lifetime of music making! These classes are for students with intermediate and advanced experience with recorder. You’ll develop more advanced music making skills using several sizes of recorders. Orff percussion instruments are also used along with dance and movement. With creative flexibility to participate in the group’s arrangements and have an expressive voice, children with some prior musical experience THRIVE in this rich musical environment. More benefits: These classes give students experience playing music for many different parts and styles of music. Lays a solid foundation for musical aptitude, concentration, and self-confidence. Fosters interest and cooperation in making music with others. This class is a great addition to our Simply Music Piano lessons!
4-Week Tuition: $159 plus one-time registration fees of $20 (returning student one-time registration fee $10)
Materials: $35 materials fee: music and weekly materials
Why Group Classes and Ensemble?
FOCUS – playing your own part while integrated with other parts
Part of something BIG – Harmony, 4-part rounds, movement, singing, body percussion, assorted xylophones, metallophones, glockenspiels! 5 sizes of recorders playing 5 different parts with different rhythms and other valuable, exciting, stimulating brain exercises!
Cooperation – Working it out with others, decision making, compromising on who will play what parts, making up new lyrics, improvisations, compositions, the form of the piece.
Listening – staying in tune with others, blending, balance, sensitive to when others have the solos, the lead, implementing expressive qualities as a team.
Organizational Skills – Planning and responsibility to the group to have all your materials, music in order with notes; working diligently to master your individual parts.
Expressive Qualities – Such powerful team work to achieve the goals!
FUN! – Music making with others is FUN!
