Learning about brass instruments in the classroom will be enjoyable for the students with some of these activities. These may help you to create your music lesson plans. The students can make simple brass instruments. You will need plastic beverage bottles (e.g. two-liter soda bottles) and sharp scissors or utility knife. Turn the bottle over
Listening Activity The Lark Ascending Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1w4N-NL_Bw&feature=related Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHbkfGsgbpQ&feature=related While listening to The Lark Ascending (Part 1), close your eyes and let the music form a scene in your imagination of a particular place. As you listen, consider the following points: You may also want to review the Poem that the piece is
Divide the class into 2-4 groups, with each group writing approximately 10 questions about Vivaldi's life and music that can be answered as “true” or “false”. The groups take it in turns to answer another group's questions, and each time they get a question correct, they are given a letter from Vivaldi's name. The first
Your students will enjoy learning about Baroque composers with some ideas from these music lesson plans. These days Handel's keyboard music is most often performed on a piano. At the time that this music was performed however pianos had not yet been invented, so keyboard music was generally played on a harpsichord. Do some research
Students will love being exposed to a variety of composers, and there is none more important than J.S. Bach for learning about the Baroque Era. You will find many more ideas for music lesson plans in our composers series of printable worksheets. Design a Facebook profile for J.S. Bach. You’ll want to include some basic
Debussy often wrote the title of his works at the end of the piece of music so as not to give any preconceived ideas. Discuss how well you feel these titles depict the actual music as you complete the listening activity. Using a list such as the one below, listen to excerpts from the items […]
Here are a few lesson ideas you could do if you were creating a music lesson about Debussy. These are just a couple of the ideas included in our printable music lesson plans on great composers. In 1889 Debussy attended the World Exposition in Paris where he heard music from many other countries. He was
I came up with this idea so children could experience what it's like to sing and play instruments in a group. First I would teach the class a simple song by rote, I use Yellow Submarine by the Beatles but any fun song will do. If you can play basic chords on the piano or
Here's one thing I like to do when filling in. I'm a studio teacher, so this is a game for a one on one situation. I get the student to give me the piece they know best, then I play it for them with mistakes (eg: a couple of wrong notes, a wrong rhythm, a
Have a look at the length of the string, and discus the effect on its pitch Have the students guess if longer or shorter strings will produce higher or lower sounds. Here is an interesting question to discuss with your students: Why do we use the word “high” to describe pitches of a higher frequency,