Classical Composers
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Sunday, March 21st, 2010Planning music lessons? here are a couple of ideas to help you create some fun music resources for your lessons.
Encourage the students to pretend that they are Prince Esterhazy, and that they are looking for a new Kapellmeister. Ask them to write a job advertisement outlining the duties of the position and the type of [...]
Listening ideas for Music by Mozart
Saturday, March 20th, 2010The Fun Music Company has a whole series of lesson plans available about composers, from the Baroque through to the 20th Century.
Listening List and other resources for learning about Mozart in the music class.
Mozart Requiem Mass in D Minor Confutatis and Lacrimosa
Piano Concerto no. 21 2nd movement: Andante
Eine kleine Nachtmusik: Allegro
Symphony no [...]
Listening Resources for a music lesson about Joseph Haydn
Saturday, March 20th, 2010Planning music lessons? here are a couple of listening ideas to help you create some fun music resources for your lessons.
Symphony No. 45 “The Farewell Symphony”: 4th Movement
This video recording is an entertaining version showing the musicians leaving the stage during the last movement, as they did in the first performance of this work [...]
A great listening idea for learning about Beethoven
Saturday, March 20th, 2010Ludwig Van Beethoven has to be one of the most unusual and interesting characters to ever compose music. Here is a listening activity to help introduce him into the music classroom, which you can include in your next music lesson plan:
“Für Elise” Bagatelle in A minor
Listen to the beginning of “Fur Elise” and sing [...]
A fun listening idea for Mozart’s music
Friday, March 19th, 2010The Fun Music Company has a whole series of lesson plans available about composers, from the Baroque through to the 20th Century.
Here is a great listening activity for Music by Mozart:
Listening Plans for the music of Beethoven
Friday, March 19th, 2010Here is an essential list of listening for music lesson plans about Beethoven.
“Für Elise” Bagatelle in A minor
Listen to the beginning of “Fur Elise” and sing together the well-known opening melody (the first nine notes). Now play the whole piece, this time counting how many times melody appears. You could work [...]
A great listening idea for learning about Franz Joseph Haydn
Thursday, March 18th, 2010A recording of this work can be found on video at
G.F. Handel and contemporary composers – lesson planning ideas
Thursday, March 18th, 2010These 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. Have the students research differences between the instruments, looking at the time when each instrument was invented, and [...]
Help your students learn about Baroque Music
Thursday, March 18th, 2010Students 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. This is just an excerpt of the materials found in our Great composers series of printable music lesson plans.
Design a Facebook profile for J.S. Bach. You’ll want to include some [...]
Listen and Learn – Music by Mozart
Wednesday, March 17th, 2010There are numerous resources and lesson plans available from this website to help you if you are planning music lessons.
Here is a listening activity to help with showing students about Mozart.