Help music students learn about symphony orchestra
Friday, March 12th, 2010Here are a few ideas for lesson planning a lesson all about a Symphony Orchestra Arrange the student’s seats as if they were an orchestra. Place instrument name cards on the appropriate desks, or Give Students name stickers to wear. Allow students to be different instruments on different days. Discuss different types of musical groups [...]
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in the junior high school classroom
Thursday, March 11th, 2010Planning music lessons? here are a couple of ideas to help you create some fun music resources for your lessons. In Austria the house where Mozart grew up have been converted into a museum. Have the students draw a design for the front cover of the brochure for this museum, showcasing why Mozart is still [...]
Learning about 18th Century composer Haydn in the music classroom
Thursday, March 11th, 2010There are numerous resources and lesson plans available from this website to help you if you are planning music lessons. One activity is to have the students research the 18th Century ‘Symphony’. There are a lot of interesting facts to learn like the number of movements, the standard instruments used at the time and the [...]
A music lesson about Ralph Vaughan Williams
Thursday, March 11th, 2010Here is a couple of ideas for a music lesson about Ralph Vaughan Williams. These ideas are taken from our printable music lesson plan product on the great composers. Instruct the students: “Imagine you are Vaughan Williams towards the end of his life and you have received a letter from a group of school students [...]
Learning about J.S. Bach? Here are a few ideas
Thursday, March 11th, 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. You’ll want to include some basic [...]
Learn about Frederic Chopin in the music class
Thursday, March 11th, 2010Some lesson ideas to learn about Chopin in the music class: Work in groups to write a moving speech that could have been given at the burial of Chopin’s heart in the pillar of the Holy Cross Church in Warsaw, Poland. Include details about Chopin’s life and why his heart was brought back to Poland. [...]
A Lesson Plan about the classical orchestra
Thursday, March 11th, 2010Learning about a Symphony Orchestra in Music Class? Here are a few ideas to use You can arrange the classroom like an orchestra. Place instrument name cards on the the students desks, or affix name stickers to individual students. Allow students to be different instruments on different days. Have a class discussion about the similarities [...]
Here are a few lesson ideas for teaching students about Mozart
Wednesday, March 10th, 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. Design the front cover of a brochure advertising the Museum by briefly describing who Mozart was, [...]
The Flute and Piccolo – a classroom music lesson
Wednesday, March 10th, 2010The Flute and Piccolo are important instruments to learn about in music class, but no so easy if you can’t play them yourself, so here is a few ideas to get you started High or Low Game: Sing or play some melodic intervals in both directions. Then ask the students to identify which note was [...]
Teaching a music class all about Joseph Haydn
Wednesday, March 10th, 2010Planning music lessons? here are a couple of ideas to help you create some fun music resources for your lessons. Here are a couple of ideas that you could use with your music class if you are preparing a music lesson about Joseph Haydn: Encourage the students to pretend that they are Prince Esterhazy, and [...]
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