Classical Composers
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Monday, March 15th, 2010This is an excerpt from our Printable Music Lesson Plans series on great composers. These are just a couple of the ideas found in the Lesson Plans. In Salzburg, Austria, Mozart’s childhood house has been turned into a museum. Have the students draw a design for the front cover of the brochure for this museum, [...]
Make learning about Franz Joseph Haydn in the classroom fun!
Monday, March 15th, 2010This is an excerpt from our Printable Music Lesson Plans series on great composers. These are just a couple of the ideas found in the Lesson Plans. A couple of ideas for a lesson plan about Franz Joseph Haydn: Have the students Imagine that they are Prince Esterhazy looking for a new Kapellmeister for their [...]
Teaching Music Students Baroque Music
Monday, March 15th, 2010Here are a few ideas you can include if creating a music lesson plan about Baroque composer G.F. Handel. These days Handel’s keyboard music is most often performed on a piano. However, pianos were not around in Handel’s day and the music was originally written for an instrument called a harpsichord. Do some research on [...]
Learning about Baroque Composers in Music Class
Monday, March 15th, 2010Want to share some Baroque Music with your music class? here are a few ideas for a music class based on J.S. Bach. 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. Include “Basic Information” (Network, Birthday, Relationship [...]
Beethoven has to be one of the most interesting characters to talk about in music class
Monday, March 15th, 2010Ludwig 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 [...]
Music Lesson ideas to share with a class about Mozart
Sunday, March 14th, 2010There 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 [...]
Classical Composer Haydn – Lesson ideas to make it fun!
Sunday, March 14th, 2010There 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 [...]
Teaching Music Students Baroque Music
Sunday, March 14th, 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. Do some research on the differences between the two, considering when each instrument was invented, how the sound is [...]
Learn about Baroque Music in a fun way
Sunday, March 14th, 2010Want 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 [...]
Classroom Music Lesson Ideas for learning about Mozart
Saturday, March 13th, 2010There 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. Have the students draw a design for the front cover of the brochure for this museum, showcasing why Mozart is still so popular [...]
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