Arirang

For those of you who took the Music Together Drums Collection, here are some great YouTube videos of Arirang, a traditional Korean folk song.

The first is of the New York Philharmonic playing Arirang.  Listen for the melody that we sang in class and pick out the instruments you see with your children.



The next video is of someone ice skating to Arirang.  This is fun to watch and may give you some good movement ideas.  Pretend like you are ice skating and use scarves while you dance like we did in class.



The last video is of a family singing the song together.  The grandparents are very old, and grandpa doesn't have teeth, but they still sing together.  It is always wonderful to see a family singing a traditional song together.



The Montessori students will be studying Asia soon.  We will sing Arirang in class, and discuss the difference in tonality between American folk songs and Asian folk songs.  Your children have studied the instruments families a little bit in class.  See if they can identify instruments in the orchestra while watching the New York Philharmonic play Arirang (in the above video).  If you need some help identifying the instruments and what families they belong in check out sfskids.org.  This is the San Fransisco Symphonies kids website and is a wonderful place to play.  I used this website when I was teaching public school to help the students learn their instruments and musical concepts.