This bonus video shows the boys gown up playing Whitewater.
Bonus video for Lesson 64. See teacher guide for discussion questions.
Vienna Philharmonic & Zubin Mehta - Grieg: Morning Mood (Summer Night Concert 2015)
Mendelssohn: Wedding March / Abbado · Berliner Philharmoniker
Follow the music listening instructions at the beginning of your instruction guide.
Show students the ballerina after you let them guess the title of the song.
Do not tell students the name of this song till after the lesson. See your Teacher Guide for details.
Follow the music listening instructions at the beginning of your instruction guide.
See your instruction guide for teaching mood and tempo.
See your instruction guide for teaching mood.
Students will discuss & identify the tempos of two traditional folk songs about canoeing.
Students will discuss & identify the tempos of two traditional folk songs about canoeing.
Students will discuss mood.
Students will discuss dynamics & tempo.
Do not show the video. Listen only. If you think your students would enjoy the video, you may use caution as it may frighten some young students.
Students will discuss mood and dynamics of the song.
Students will listen to this video to listen for articulation.
Students will discuss dynamics and tempo.
Students will listen and watch two performances of The Sugar Plum Fairy and discuss the mood and dynamics of the song.
Students will listen and watch two performances of The Sugar Plum Fairy and discuss the mood and dynamics of the song.
Students will listen for cadence, mood, dynamics, and tempo. in three styles of military marches for this lesson. This is the first of two Scottish versions.
Students will listen for cadence, mood, dynamics, and tempo. in three styles of military marches for this lesson. This is the United States of American version.
Students will listen for cadence, mood, dynamics, and tempo. in three styles of military marches for this lesson. This is the British version.
The first time, listen quietly with eyes shut. The second time, watch the video too.
Before listening to this traditional English round, first listen to the Row, Row, Row Your Boat round.
Please use “Row, Row, Row Your Boat” as an example before you listen to “Sumer Is Icumen In.” This is a great example of round
This is for teachers (not the children). To hear how this poem is read, listen to Malcom Guide reading it at the 4:50 time stamp. If you want to know more about the poetic imagination, watch the entire video.
Listen to The Wedding March. (This song comes at the close of Act IV and leads into the post-wedding party of Act V in the play.)
If your students want to hear more from this score, the Overture lays the theme for the entire musical score.
For students who want more, listen to this. It is the part that is just after Act 1 of the play which is the meeting of the fairies with the donkey scene. Listen carefully for the hee-haw sound of the donkey and the flight of the fairies
Listen and watch before the students open their books to study the painting.
Listen twice. Have them listen only before watching the video.
[Note: This performance is really fun, but the quality of the video is not great.]
The musicians are using such fun toys in the song. One musician uses a bird water whistle. Consider purchasing a package of these online to play with. They do require that you add water. If you homeschool and only have a few kids, there are really nice ceramic ones online to consider as well. Here is a demo of one if you want to share with the kids.
You do not need to show the video if you prefer to just listen.
This rendition is very good and uses many of the original baroque instruments. It also has the subtitle lyrics that originally went with this song (you will read the poem in lesson 98). I encourage you to read the description under the video for your own education about this piece.
1st Movement: Allegro
2nd Movement: Largo
3rd Movement: Allegro
If you want to experience all 4 seasons, I recommend this rendition performed by the Orquesta Reino de Aragón.
You will discuss the moods and tempos in this song.
Extension: Play these different movements at different times over the next few weeks for your students to enjoy.
This is the one with the “surprise.”
El sombrero de tres picos [The Three-Cornered Hat] by Manuel de Falla
INSTRUCTIONS
Show the first five minutes the first time.
Listen without video for two minutes the second time.
From Russian folklore, The Firebird.
INSTRUCTIONS
Show the first five minutes the first time.
Listen without video for two minutes the second time.
Compare the blue jay with the bluebird and discuss how they are different.
Compare the Easter Blue Bird call to the Blue Jay’s call.
Read about James Reese Europe from the teacher guide before you listen to this.
The Clef Club was founded by James Reese Europe. This virtual concert features The Swarthmore College Wind Ensemble performing The Clef Club March by James Reese Europe. The information about his life before the concert is short and interesting. Please read it to your students!
The video is interesting. It moves like a virtual marching band.
You will compare all three versions. This is the first recording from 1971, New Zealand Folk Songs
You will compare this version to the other two. The moods are different in each song.
Ask students to compare the three versions of this song.
Do not show this video until students have completed part 1 of Lesson 121.
Enjoy this song for the remainder of the school year. The more you play it, the better it gets. Students should learn to love this song. The more they hear it, the more it will become part of them.
André Rieu and his Johann Strauss Orchestra performing an abridged version of Ode to Joy. They put on wonderful concerts throughout Europe. If you want to instill a love of classical music in your students, follow his videos and enjoy watching beautiful concerts.
If your students would enjoy a biography written for children about Beethoven, this is a well-done story.