Go Baroque TaskList
Go Baroque with MWA this Fall Semester!
Students participating in the Fall Festival are required to play one selection from the Baroque Period. Those students will spend time learning about this historical period in music. Fourteen tasks on the Go Baroque TaskList will earn them MWA Points for award points toward a Gift Card...Starbucks, Harkins, Creamistry, Dairy Queen, and more! All students Grades 4+ are welcome to participate in this music history adventure with Bach, Scarlatti, Handel, Vivaldi and more....Fall Festival participation is NOT mandatory.
Ornamentation...a shorthand for written notation... is prevalent in this stylistic time period from 1685-1750. Here are some of the more familiar 'decorations' found in Baroque music.
The inverted mordent tells the performer to play the note one-half step below the note in the music. Listen for the inverted mordent in this well-known piece by Bach - the first three notes of this famous "Halloween" Toccata in D-minor.
What about a turn on a note? The performer adds the 'upper neighbor' and the 'lower neighbor' notes to those written in the music.
A trill starts on the 'upper neighbor' in the Baroque period.
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