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 Franz Joseph Haydn
Thursday, March 18th, 2010A recording of this work can be found on video at
Fun lesson ideas for teaching students about Classical composers
Wednesday, March 17th, 2010Planning music lessons? here are a couple of ideas to help you create some fun music resources for your lessons.
A couple of ideas for a lesson plan about Franz Joseph Haydn:
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 [...]
Learning about Music and Deafness through Beethoven’s music
Wednesday, March 17th, 2010Here are a few music lesson plan ideas to get your students inspired about the life of Beethoven – one of the most interesting characters to ever put pen to manuscript.
Write a short children’s story about the life of Beethoven. Include the most important parts of Beethoven’s life that younger children may be interested [...]
Haydn Talk Show? What if TV shows were around in the 18th Century?
Tuesday, March 16th, 2010What if TV talk shows were around in the 18th Century? Create a talk show segment interviewing Joseph Haydn on the success of one of his tours to London.
Talk about a concert, the people Haydn met, Haydn’s opinion of the current fashion trends and anything else of interest. D
Don’t forget that Haydn was known [...]
Learn about the sound of angels: The Harp
Tuesday, March 16th, 2010Have a look at the length of the string, and discus the effect on its pitch Ask students to predict whether longer strings will create lower-pitched sounds or vice versa. Ponder this with your students: Why do you think people use the word “low” to describe pitches of lesser frequency and “high” to describe [...]
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 [...]
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 be [...]
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 [...]
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 such [...]