Tuesday+Tunes

==== Every Tuesday, our class tunes in to the music of imagination. We enjoy how our imaginations are given power and pictures from the music. Our feet start tapping and our fingers start twitching. Here is a list of our Tuesday Tunes and what our imaginations imagined! ====

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1. "Peter and the Wolf" composed by Sergei Prokofiev
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What do you "see" while listening? We imagined...

- a little boy skipping - Michal L. - a mouse running away from a cat - Nick - walking with my dog - Natalia - an adventure - Emma - courage - Aurelia, Zuzia - someone spying - Lennard - a happy man jumping - Ross - ballet - Grace - dancing - Milou, Kristian - a haunted house - Jasper - playing - Ji Eun

2. "Beethoven's 5th Symphony" by Beethoven
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-a picnic with nice animals and birds - Emma - liberty - Seung Hwan - a haunted house on Halloween in the middle woods - Natalia - a mouse running away from a fox - Anna - a single combat - Lena - a phantom playing the organ - Aurelia - a giant shark attacking a blue whale - Rudolf - a big storm with lightning and thunder - Michal G, Seung Hwan - running away from a tiger and skipping around Notre Dame - Kona - melancholy - Milou - a person jumping off the highest cliff in the world and jumping into the ocean - Nick - a king returning to a palace - Nick - a man getting chased by a tiger in the jungle - Jasper - a little mouse chasing a fox - Michal G. - a giant crushing the city during a storm - Ross

3. "Sprach Zarathustra" (which means Thus Spoke Zarathustra) by Richard Strauss
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What do you "see" while listening? We imagined...

- an evil emperor cursing her people - Jasper - military tanks going to battle and people saying a dramatic "good bye" to them - Aurelia - people are coming to space or the ending of a movie - Kristian - a victory - Seung Hwan - an astronaut stepping on the moon and planting his flag on the dust - Lena - the first people to go on a space shuttle to go on the moon - Zuzia - sun rising - Grace, Ji Eun - the beginning or end of a movie - Ross - a thunderstorm and athletes coming for the Olympic games - Lennard - World War II and that we won - Milou - a rocket blasting off - Anna - sunset - Ji Eun - planet Earth - Michal G. - chicken invaders - Michal L. - time traveling to the ancient times - Kona - parking cars - Aurelia

4. "Toccata and Fugue" by Johann Sebastian Bach
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What do you "see" while listening? We imagined... - an organ sound - Seung Hwan - a mean man playing on the organ - Anna - Davie Jones playing on the organ - Michal L. - the beginning of a creepy movie - Zuzia - a phantom playing the organ - Kristian - Dracula's castle - Kristian - a ceremony in the church - Milou - arguing - Ji Eun - falling down a cliff - Ji Eun - a phantom in somebody's attic - Michal G. - a zombie rising from his grave - Lena - a landslide with people in it - Lena - alien attacking the earth - Lennard - a person rolling down a hill - Jasper - a funeral - Aurelia - dracula and the music video "Thriller" - Ross - an elephant sitting on a wolf without noticing it - Emma - a sub attacking a ship - Nick - someone dying - Grace - a french chef with a knife and an apron chuckling, "I am sinister!" - Nick - slavery - Kona

4. "Carnival of Animals: Aquarium " by Camille Saint-Saens (pronounced sane-SAWNZ) - french composer
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What do you "see" while listening? We imagined... - walking in a dark castle with nobody there - Kona - someone levitating a flower and worried that it will drop and die - Lena - a girl sitting at her father's bed because he is sick and she is worried that he will die - Lena - a little boy dreaming about a wizard making evil potions - Emma - walking in a forest by yourself and got lost - Seung Hwan - two swans swimming on a silver river covered with mist - Aurelia - magic - Nick - a fairy casting a spell - Nick - Harry Potter - Kristian and Michal L. and Lennard and Grace and Anna - a guy wandering from a mystical forest - Kristian - a phantom playing a piano on a high tone - Jasper - water spraying and everyone enjoying it - Zuzia - an old house with witches flying on broomsticks - Natalia - an island on a mystical sea covered in fog - Michal G. - butterflies flying in a forest and a bat attacking them - Michal G. - people dancing and a happy man skipping - Ross - buttercups dancing in the sunlight - Milou - a mysterious and dark land - Ji Eun - someone playing piano - Grace

6. "Ride of the Valkyries" by Richard Wagner (a German composer) - an opera!
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What do you "see" while listening? We imagined...

- a cowboy riding on his horse and almost falling off because teeny bugs are attacking his horse...the cowboy falls off his horse into a dark, deep hole. A beautiful maiden comes to save HIM! - Ms. Ryan - a small bug attacking a huge bear - Michal L. - a beer commercial - Michal L. - my happy brother when he was small - Emma - someone conducting - Emma, Grace - a marvelous rainbow - Nick - people returning from war - Nick - cowboy going down a trillion haunted stairs - Kona - someone marching - Kona - a horse running after a cat, a cat running after a mouse and the mouse running away - Zuzia - explosions - Aurelia - a solider on his horse playing his trumpet - Aurelia - a soldier approaching his destination - Kristian - a clown fish chased by a shark...and the clown fish escaped - Lennard - imagined a game called "Flight of the Hamster" - Jasper - bad people looking for a little boy - Ross - angels flying in the sky - Ross - danger in the ocean - Grace - someone running away - Ji Eun - a chase in the forest - Milou - a blue whale jumping out of the water and crashing back down and drowning...its babies are trying to save it - Lena - 4 = death - Lena - soldiers riding their horses bravely to war and then they fight, get hurt, and then return to camp. They eventually come back to their homes because they won. - Natalia - Neptune putting on the crown but he falls and the crown breaks - Anna - Ms. Ryan in a deep deep forest chasing a moose who is fast like an arrow but Ms. Ryan is faster and finally catches him. - Michal G. - a flying hamster - Kristian - fireworks on New Year's Eve - Lennard

7. "Ode to Joy" by Ludwig van Beethoven (a German composer)
Did you know? An **ode** is a poem written in praise or dedication to someone or something

Did you know? Beethoven read a poem called "Ode to Joy" (it was in German) and he loved it so much that he decided to put the words to music!

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What do you "see" while listening? We imagined... - the hunting theme - Michal L. - the game "Little Big Planet" - Michalsssssssssssssssssss (hehehehehe) - circus music - Seung Hwan - a clown in a circus riding on a unicycle while juggling 24 apples while whistling "Ode to Joy" - Michal G. (one of the Michalsssssss) - a crazy scientist making a supersonic drum and then it suddenly explodes sending the scientist to Hawaii- Michal G. - people dancing - Emma - happy children traveling all over the world - Emma - a fat lady leading a farting band - Lena - a bride smashing the cake in a groom's face - Lena - Christmas - Lennard - a parade - Lennard - someone playing the drum, recorder, violin and the piano - Grace - one small monkey and one big monkey farting the song "Ode to Joy" - Kristian - a rock band playing at a concert and they think that they play well but they don't - Ross - someone being full of joy because they discovered that their dream has come true - Zuzia - an amphibian and insect opera with a bullfrog conducting it. The dragonflies are playing the violin next to the fernbush and salamanders are keeping the beat- Rudolf -

8. "Clair de Lune" (french for light of the moon) by Claude Debussy (pronounced dub-YOO-see)
Did you know? Debussy is considered one of the most important French composers.

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- a butterfly flying around - Emma
- someone running on a field - Michal L. - when I left my friends and we both were in deep sadness - Grace - there was a war and the countries were split up, like in Poland when countries took Polish land - Grace - my best friend moving without warning and we don't get to say goodbye - Lena - a girl in chains and a man to rescue her. The girl thinks he locked her up so she kicks him in the face. He says he didn't lock her up and she says sorry. She slaps him in the face anyway. - Lena - A mouse jumping all over the house and a striped brown cat jumping after the mouse. Then the mouse jumps on a piano and while running makes beautiful music. But when the cat goes on, he makes terrible music. Then catches the mouse. - Michal G. - a grand piano concert in a far away fairytale land - Natalia - a little star twinkling on the dark night - Ji Eun - a beautiful swan gliding under the sunset with pink clouds in the sky - Anna - swimming in a swimming pool while the sun is blazing on your skin - Kona - sailing gracefully on the Pacific Ocean - Kona - stars doing ballet - Aurelia - something exploding in my heart - Aurelia - fingertips going down curvy staircases - Aurelia - a boy leaving his best friend to go to a new school - Jasper - someone crying in the rain - Milou - my puppy dead because of a stupid car - Kristian - someone crying in his bedroom without any friends and when he looks outside he sees everyone playing and having fun - Zuzia -a peaceful, silent night - Lennard - a melancholy sea - Lennard - tears falling on cold stone - Lennard - the piano - Rudolf - A girl is sitting in a forest. A monster comes and she is scared. Then she sees it is a nice dog. - Emma - a knight running up to a woman and then plunging down to the bottom of the Earth - Nick - saying good bye to a friend forever - Ross - crying because someone died in my family - Ross - a couple just got married and are driving away with tears of joy - Ross

9. "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" by Paul Dukas (french composer)
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Did you know? This 1897 music by Dukas was inspired by the 1797 poem of the same name by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, which in turn was based on a tale by the ancient Greek poet Lucian of Samosata.

What do you "see" while listening? We imagined...Our imaginations are running wild now after so many weeks of listening to Tuesday Tunes. Ms. Ryan can't type fast enough to keep up with our mental movies. Check out our student pages to read our Tuesday Tune short stories!

10. "The Battle" by Hans Zimmer (a German composer)
Did you know? This song was written for scene in a movie.

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What did you "see" while listening? We imagined...

Check out our student pages to read our Tuesday Tune short stories.

11. "The Pink Panther Theme Song" by Henri Mancini
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Check out our student pages to read our Tuesday Tune short stories!

12. "The March" by Peter Tchaikovsky (a Russian composer)
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Did you know? This music is from a famous ballet often performed during Christmas time?