Circle of Seasons

Description

Voice 1, Voice 2, Piano, Claves, Maracas — This piece is a fun way for students to reinforce their sense of the difference in changing rhythm patterns.Instructing the relationships as meters change gives the performers the opportunity to feel stress points.The director can point out where the stress points are found, even encouraging more emphasis, though there are no written accents.Teach the principle of maintaining the common pulse of the eighth note.The simple percussion parts can reinforce these ideas.Choral students can play the percussion, or invite the school’s instrumentalists to participate. Circle of Seasons affords students a pathway to reinforce their sense of the difference in changing rhythm patterns and meter changes. With or without the optional percussion, it's rhythmically engaging, celebratory, and highly enjoyable to sing!

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