Ludwig Van Beethoven has to be one of the most unusual and interesting characters to ever compose music. Here are a few ideas to help introduce him into your music lesson plans: Use Beethoven's life as the topic for a short children's story. You can describe all the parts of Beethoven's life that children may
Studying instruments in your music class? The saxophone is a great one to include. Saxophones are a very popular instrument, having uses in many genres of music, from Classical to Jazz and Rock. Saxophones are often featured in “big band” music.”Big Band” music often features the saxophone. The typical “big band” sax section consists of
There are numerous resources and lesson plans available from this website to help you if you are planning music lessons. In Salzburg, Austria, Mozart's childhood house has been turned into a museum. Design the front cover of a brochure advertising the Museum by briefly describing who Mozart was, what may be see in the Museum
Here are a few lesson planning ideas that you can use when learning about the clarinet in the music class. There are lots more ideas for music lesson plans in the printable music lesson plans series at this webpage. Have fun making this simple single reed instrument You will need: plastic combs and pieces of
Learning about brass instruments in the classroom will be enjoyable for the students with some of these activities. You can include them in your next music lesson plans about musical instruments. Make a rudimentary brass instrument. You will need plastic beverage bottles (e.g. two-liter soda bottles) and sharp scissors or utility knife. Turn the bottle
There are numerous resources and lesson plans available from this website to help you if you are planning music lessons. Learning about the Classical Composer Joseph Haydn? - Here are a few ideas for you: Encourage the students to pretend that they are Prince Esterhazy, and that they are looking for a new Kapellmeister. Have
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 on the differences between the two, considering when each instrument was invented, how the sound is
Want to share some Baroque Music with your music class? here are a few ideas for a music class based on J.S. Bach. If you are creating a music lesson plan about baroque music then this may give you a few ideas. Create a pretend profile for JS Bach on your favourite social networking site
Here's just a few ideas for writing a music lesson plan about the Harp. Discuss the effect of string length on 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
Want some music lesson plans about percussion instruments? here is a few ideas To help students understand how timpani can be tuned, demonstrate the effect of membrane tension on pitch. With a simple home made drum, pull on the edges of the drumhead to put varying degrees of tension on it, while a student plays