Here are a few teaching ideas to get your students inspired about the life of Beethoven – one of the most interesting characters to ever put pen to manuscript. Watch the excerpt from the movie Mr. Holland's Opus where he tries to communicate the idea of music to his deaf son through lights and color.
Here is a Listening Activity for Music Lessons about Antonio Vivaldi: The Four Seasons: Spring 1st Movement. Before listening to the 1st Movement of Spring, discuss what kind of things you associate with Spring. Brainstorm a list (e.g. flowers blooming, birds etc) and talk about what musical effects/sounds you could possibly use to represent them.
Who remembers going to traditional piano lessons? Where you had to go to Mrs Jones’s house and sit up straight on the stool, and play the right notes or you’d get a swift ruler tap on the back of the knuckles? Well thankfully times have changed, and (we hope) that piano teachers no longer plan
Here are a few teaching ideas to get your students inspired about the life of Beethoven – one of the most interesting characters to ever put pen to manuscript. Use Beethoven's life as the topic for a short children's story. Include the most important parts of Beethoven's life that younger children may be interested in.
For this activity set up 9 chairs in a 3x3 grid. Then divide the students into teams. One team are the “O’s, the other team are the “X’s”. Then use a set of flashcards with all the musical instruments. Show one team the first card, and call a students name. If the student names the instrument
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 is a couple of lesson plan ideas that can be used when teaching students about the clarinet in your music classroom. These are just a few ideas taken from the fun music company’s music lesson plans on instruments of the orchestra. Have fun making this simple single reed instrument You will need: plastic combs
Students often need to learn about that guy at the front of the orchestra who waves his hands. What is he there for? and why on earth does he get paid so much money? These are all ideas that students can use to learn about the conductor in the orchestra. There is a complete lesson
A post by Janice on Music Lesson Plans: Worksheets to help with Teaching Major Scales If you need theory worksheet content to help with teaching major scales then you may find that our Printable Music Theory Books could become an invaluable companion in your resource kit. This is a book of comprehensive book of worksheets
This video is a Suzuki teacher using flashcards to actively involve her students in remembering musical terms they have played in their pieces. I was just looking through youtube for music theory videos and I stumbled across this teacher who was actively involving her students in remembering musical terms they have played in their pieces.