Orff & Recorder Ensemble I

Price range: $214.00 through $400.00

Monthly Tuition (4-week) $169

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.

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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.

Not only is this class FUN, but the list of benefits is as long as the number of instruments that students play!

Students in this one-of-a-kind ensemble cultivate musical excellence across genres, from Renaissance to American Blues and Jazz. Through improvisation, composition, and ensemble playing, they hone advanced skills in harmony, rhythm, melody, form and expressive qualities. This experience also fosters crucial skills like teamwork, cooperation, communication, and the confidence to create and perform. The curriculum incorporates Orff percussion, singing, movement, and various recorders – starting with soprano and alto. This class provides an outstanding foundation for all other musical pursuits including choir, band and orchestra.

4-Week Tuition: $169 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!