The Organ, Harpsichord and Celesta – the piano’s cousins in the music class
Friday, March 19th, 2010The piano has several less known cousins which are important for us to introduce into the music classroom: the celesta, harpsichord and organ.
Discuss with students the similarities and differences among keyboard instruments. The keyboard instruments are related to each other in that they are controlled by a similarly laid-out key mechanism. Technically, however, they belong [...]
Teaching students about the orchestra and keyboard instruments in the music class
Thursday, March 18th, 2010The piano has several less known cousins which are important for us to introduce into the music classroom: the celesta, harpsichord and organ.
Show and talk about the different aspects and characteristics of the keyboard instruments. The keyboard instruments are related to each other in that they are controlled by a similarly laid-out key mechanism. Technically, [...]
Class Music ideas about the Harpsichord and related instruments
Tuesday, March 16th, 2010The piano has several less known cousins which are important for us to introduce into the music classroom: the celesta, harpsichord and organ.
Show and talk about the different aspects and characteristics of the keyboard instruments. The keyboard instruments are related to each other in that they are controlled by a similarly laid-out key mechanism. Technically, [...]
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 [...]
Learning about The Celesta, Piano, Harpsichord and Organ in the classroom
Friday, March 12th, 2010The piano has several less known cousins which are important for us to introduce into the music classroom: the celesta, harpsichord and organ.
Here are a few ideas that you can include in your music lesson plans about these instruments
Show and talk about the different aspects and characteristics of the keyboard instruments. The keyboard instruments [...]
How Computer Games can help you learn music.
Friday, March 12th, 2010This is a description of how educational music games can help you when learning music.
Who remembers going to traditional piano lessons? Where you had to go to Mrs Jones’s house and sit up straight on the stool, and play the right notes or you’d get a swift ruler tap on the back of the knuckles?
Well [...]
Beethoven the Musical Genius – a Lesson Plan for music
Friday, March 12th, 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 the music classroom:
Beethoven composed most of his most beautiful music during the last portion of his life when he was almost completely deaf. Beethoven would play [...]
Learning about the Orchestral Keyboard instruments in music class
Thursday, March 11th, 2010This is a tiny sample of the music lesson plans available from the fun music company.
Here are a few ideas that you can use when discussing the orchestral keyboard instruments: The piano, celesta, harpsichord and pipe organ.
Show and talk about the different aspects and characteristics of the keyboard instruments. The keyboard instruments are related to [...]
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 Music Lesson about George Frideric Handel
Wednesday, March 10th, 2010Here are a few ideas you can use if creating a music lesson plan about Baroque composer G.F. Handel.
Today when you hear keyboard music by Handel played, it is usually played on a piano. However, pianos were not around in Handel’s day and the music was originally written for an instrument called a harpsichord. [...]