Musical Graphs and Equations Make your own music graphs and charts. While preschool and early elementary children can stick with simple tally charts, older children can gather data and turn them into bar graphs or pie charts. Follow these simple steps: Choose what information you’d like to track. Some ideas: Is the music in a […]
Brass Family Coloring and Listening Print out the following brass family coloring pages and encourage students to engage in quiet listening time while you listen to the individual brass instrument playlist or the full brass family spotify playlist below. Coloring Pages Print out the following brass family coloring pages to the left and encourage students
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You’re an Arranger! We learned that an arranger is someone who takes music that already exists and creatively changes it to be different in some way. You students can become arrangers with this simple activity. Choose a simple song that your kids all know. For example, Happy Birthday, the ABC song, or Row, Row, Row,
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Xylophone Composition This composition activity combines music and math is such a smart and simple way. Children will get to flex their creativity and work on their basic addition or subtraction skills all at the same time. This blog post goes into even more detail, but the basic steps are as follows: Grab an instrument
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Program Music Deep Dive During this activity, you’ll dive deeper into Vivaldi’s Winter from The Four Seasons. Read the poem this piece is based on. I. Allegro non molto–Frozen and trembling in the icy snow,In the severe blast of the horrible wind,As we run, we constantly stamp our feet,And our teeth chatter in the cold.II.
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Music Mind Maps Write the name of the piece and the composer in the center of the worksheet. In the first branch out of circles (the purple circles) write down specific program elements that the music is trying to portray. To use Vivaldi’s Winter from The Four Seasons as an example, you might choose to
Music Listening Worksheet Have students complete this worksheet as they listen to a piece of music. It will help them engage in both how the music makes them feel as well as with what is happening in the music, building the bridge between musical devices and the moods they can create.
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Teamwork for Two (and more!) As any practiced performer knows, performing in a small ensemble, like a duet, can often require more concentration than performing in a larger ensemble. In a duet, you have to be completely aligned with the other musician – you have to listen to and hear what they’re doing, but you
Orchestra Guess Who Use the game packet downloads to play orchestra games with your family in person or play Orchestra Memory online. Guess Who is a classic game that is perfect for teaching about the instrument families in the orchestra. It can help children learn about the differences and similarities between instruments. This Orchestra Guess
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Create A Playlist All About You For a long time, people (young people especially!) have been creating their own musical playlists to share and connect with their friends and communities around them. Thanks to digital media and software, it’s now easier than ever for people to create their own playlists. Help your students create their
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