Planning music lessons? here are a couple of ideas to help you create some fun music resources for your lessons. Here are a couple of ideas that you could use with your music class if you are preparing a music lesson about Joseph Haydn: Encourage the students to pretend that they are Prince Esterhazy, and
Learning about brass instruments in the classroom will be enjoyable for the students with some of these activities. Make a rudimentary brass instrument. You will need plastic beverage bottles (e.g. two-liter soda bottles) and sharp scissors or utility knife. Cut the bottom off a plastic bottle. Try to get different tones by Buzzing your lips
Here is a few lesson planning ideas about the great baroque composer, Antonio Vivaldi. These are taken from our printable music lesson plans series of worksheets. Vivaldi was born in Venice and lived a great deal of his life there. Venice is a very unique city even today because there are no cars. In fact
Here are a few ideas you can use if creating a music lesson plan about Baroque composer G.F. Handel. Today when you hear keyboard music by Handel played, it is usually played on a piano. However, pianos were not around in Handel's day and the music was originally written for an instrument called a harpsichord.
Here are a few ideas for a music lesson all about the composer Johann Sebastian Bach. This is just an excerpt of the materials found in our Great composers series of printable music lesson plans. Create a pretend profile for JS Bach on your favourite social networking site such as Facebook. You’ll want to include
These are just a few ideas for writing a music lesson plan about the Harp. 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. Ponder this with your students: Why do you think
Students will learn all about the Cello and Double bass through these easy and fun games. This is part of a music lesson plan from the fun music company. To help students learn the parts of the instruments: play Pin the Parts on the Cello or or Double Bass (a variation on Pin the Tail
Here are a few ideas that you can use when discussing the orchestral keyboard instruments: The piano, celesta, harpsichord and pipe organ. Show and talk about the different aspects and characteristics of the keyboard instruments. The keyboard instruments are related to each other in that they are controlled by a similarly laid-out key mechanism. Technically,
Want your students to learn about the string instruments? Here are a few lesson planning ideas that will get your students inspired about stringed instruments. These are just a few of the lesson planning ideas available from the fun music company. Collect objects of different sizes, or gather pictures of such objects, or simply make
here is a few fairly simple ideas for creating music lesson plans about percussion instruments. To help students understand how timpani can be tuned, demonstrate the effect of membrane tension on pitch. With a simple home made drum, you can often vary the tension of the skin by simply pressing or pulling at the edges