 We are wanting to encourage our students to listen to different and important musical works. Your Assignment: Listen to the link below, share with your family, and add comments to let us know what you think! This one is Mendelssohn's Songs Without Words: Spring Song Time Period: Romantic, 1844 Originally written for solo piano, here is a lovely version with clarinet playing the melody. The second link is a solo piano version. Can you imagine lots of birds, butterflies, bees, & flowers swaying in the breeze?
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 We are wanting to encourage our students to listen to different and important musical works. Your Assignment: Listen to the link below, share with your family, and add comments to let us know what you think! This one is J.S. Bach's Toccata & Fugue in D Minor Time Period: Baroque Used in scary movies sometimes! One slow, dramatic melody in the Toccata, followed by many fast melodies. Then, in the Fugue, organized, overlapping melodies (starting at 2:41)  We are wanting to encourage our students to listen to different and important musical works. Your Assignment: Listen to the link below, share with your family, and add comments to let us know what you think! This one is Puccini's "O Mio Babbino Caro". Time Period: Romantic Era, 1918 This stage performance opens with Gianni Schicchi shouting, in resistance to the idea of his daughter marrying her love. Then his daughter pleads with him.  We are wanting to encourage our students to listen to different and important musical works. Your Assignment: Listen to the link below, share with your family, and add comments to let us know what you think! This one is Offenbach's Can-Can Time Period: Romantic Era Here is a great performance from a youth orchestra in Slovenia!  We are wanting to encourage our students to listen to different and important musical works. Your Assignment: Listen to the link below, share with your family, and add comments to let us know what you think! This one is Holst's The Planets: Jupiter Time Period: 1916 Picture a loud, jolly, kind, & generous king, feasting & dancing with his subjects at his castle.  We are wanting to encourage our students to listen to different and important musical works. Your Assignment: Listen to the link below, share with your family, and add comments to let us know what you think! This one is Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue Time Period: 1924 Gershwin's original version for two pianos. This was immediately orchestrated -- for the premiere of the piece! -- by Ferde Grofé.  We are wanting to encourage our students to listen to different and important musical works. Your Assignment: Listen to the link below, share with your family, and add comments to let us know what you think! This one is Chopin's Minute Waltz (Op. 64 no. 1) Time Period: Romantic This famous waltz is NOT playable in one minute, though it is fairly brief! The legend is that a visitor challenged Chopin to write a song about Chopin's little dog, which was at that moment chasing its tail! Perhaps Chopin started improvising then & there, & then developed the full piece, later on.  We are wanting to encourage our students to listen to different and important musical works. Your Assignment: Listen to the link below, share with your family, and add comments to let us know what you think! This one is Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker: Dance of the Sugarplum Fairies Time Period: Romantic This is a beautiful ballet performance! I love how even though it's a slower tempo, it's still very light and dancy! We are wanting to encourage our students to listen to different and important musical works. Your Assignment: Listen to the link below, share with your family, and add comments to let us know what you think! Our sixth one is Waldteufel's "Skater's Waltz (Les Patineurs Valse)" Time Period: Romantic, 1882 Style/Mood: gliding, leaping fun! This is a super fun performance! Can you hear the skaters leaping, in the middle of the piece? Does it make you dance?  We are wanting to encourage our students to listen to different and important musical works. Your Assignment: Listen to the link below, share with your family, and add comments to let us know what you think! Our fifth one is Debussy's "Arabesque no. 1" Time Period: Impressionistic, 1891 Style/Mood: dreamy beauty What do you imagine when you hear this gentle, dreamy piece? |
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