Monday, 26 July 2010

Music Theory Class
In today's class, the first thing that we did in this class was checking resources. I brought my complete resources. We were then told that there will be a pop western singing assessment. We can choose our song or by the choices that are given. The song must be about human relations or world issues. Then, our homework of major chords was checked. SOme students were called to write down the chords in the board, another name the notes in each chord and others were asked to name a random chord by not looking at the board. Then, we were asked to identify whether each chord sounds happy or sad. We were told that those sound happy was a major chord and sad a minor chord except for the seventh chord - diminished. Next we discuss the difference of major and minor which was the interval. The major has interval of 1,1,1/2,1,1,1,1/2. Chords sthat are major include the I,IV,V minor include II,III,VI and the diminished VII. After that we were told to write G major scale and I-VII chords in our music book. The chords were for homework. Next discussion is about our reflection task. We were shown of the blog website, an example of a blog and what to include in our reflection. We were told the criteria for music class which was Knowledge and Understanding, Application, Reflection and Evaluation and Personal Engagement. I think I will have to make a new blog since I forgot hte password of my old blog. Then we were given the MYP Learning Plan and Task booklet. We were also explained about a presentation that we must do in groups about music genre. Then we discussed the rest of the booklet including two videos that I must have in my blog of each maximum 2 minutes. For next session, I should prepare for the singing assessment, the blog and the chord homework but I have done the chord homework in class.
Music Practical Class
For practical class, each of us played the major scale from C-B in two octaves. For next lesson, I was asked to play the contrary version of each major scales. I think I did okay although I forgot to begin with teh fourth finger for the B sclas so I still need some practise.