Go, Team Orchestra! Student Worksheet

PART ONE

NAMES:

PART TWO

NAMES:

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

PART THREE

NAMES:

PART FOUR

NAMES:

Go, Team Orchestra! Page 2

Instruments include:

Instruments are made from:

Sound is made by:

Instruments include:

Instruments are made from:

Sound is made by:

Instruments include:

Instruments are made from:

Sound is made by:

BRASS WOODWINDS

STRINGS PERCUSSION

Instruments include:

Instruments are made from:

Sound is made by:

A Motivating Motif Student Worksheet

NAME DATE

B E E T H O V E N

Main

Motive

Motive #2

Motive #3

Rhythmic Notation Music Notation

A Symphony of Emotion Student Worksheet

NAME DATE

MOOD or EMOTION

Symphony No. 6 in F major: IV. Allegro

“CLUES”

Compositional Techniques

Symphony No. 8 in F major: II. Allegro scherzando

Beethoven’s Life Composition Cards

When Beethoven was very young, his father was very strict and made Beethoven practice the piano ALL the time. Sometimes he would wake Beethoven up in the middle of the night and have him practice until morning.

Beethoven probably felt _______________________________

_______________________________________________________

He might have written music that sounded like:

_______________________________________________________

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1

Beethoven had one of his music compositions published when he was only 12 years old!

Beethoven probably felt _______________________________

_______________________________________________________

He might have written music that sounded like:

_______________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________

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2 Beethoven was a famous musician in his time.

He played many piano concerts and often conducted orchestras that played his music.

Beethoven probably felt _______________________________

_______________________________________________________

He might have written music that sounded like:

_______________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________

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3

Beethoven’s Life Composition Cards

Beethoven's hearing loss made it hard for him to communicate with other people.

Beethoven probably felt _______________________________

_______________________________________________________

He might have written music that sounded like:

_______________________________________________________

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5

Even though Beethoven was deaf, he heard music in his imagination and continued composing and conducting music.

Beethoven probably felt _______________________________

_______________________________________________________

He might have written music that sounded like:

_______________________________________________________

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6

When he was about 26 years old, Beethoven started to lose his hearing. He had a hard time hearing his friends talk and couldn't hear the instruments play his music.

Beethoven probably felt _______________________________

_______________________________________________________

He might have written music that sounded like:

_______________________________________________________

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Seventh Symphony Sundae Instructor Call Chart

“Ice Cream” “Chocolate

Syrup”

“Whipped

Cream” “Sprinkles”

Track Timing 0:06-0:53 0:54-1:43 1:44-2:29 2:30-3:14

# of

Measures

and Beats

24 measures (in 2/4 time) and 48 beats

24 measures (in 2/4 time) and 48 beats

24 measures (in 2/4 time) and 48 beats

24 measures (in 2/4 time) and 48 beats

Pattern

Repeated 3 times 3 times 3 times 3 times

Musical

Attributes

Texture: Rhythmic melody in low strings Dynamics: piano

Texture: Middle strings add counter-melody over low strings Dynamics: mezzo

piano

Texture: Upper strings take over melody, lower stings have counter-melody Dynamics: mezzo

forte, then crescendo

Texture: Full orchestra used for many layers of sound Dynamics: forte, then decrescendo

Dance

Movements

• Right hand forward (4 beats)

• Left hand forward (4 beats)

• Side-step right two times: step-close, step-close (4 beats)

• Side-step left two times: step-close, step-close (4 beats)

• Right hand reach forward (4 beats)

• Left hand reach forward (4 beats)

• Step/leap right two times (4 beats)

• Step/leap left two times (4 beats)

Pick up scarf

or ribbon

• Extend scarf with right hand (4 beats)

• Extend scarf with left hand (4 beats)

• Step/leap right two times, swinging scarf in right hand (4 beats)

• Step/leap left two times, swinging scarf in left hand (4 beats)

Follow the same pattern as the “Whipped Cream” segment, moving and extending the whole body as creatively as possible

Bigger Can Be Better Sheet Music

Ode to Joy Ludwig van Beethoven

Bigger Can Be Better Recorder Fingering Chart

OUTER EAR MIDDLE EAR INNER EAR

The Human Ear

www.TurnItToTheLeft.com

Protect your ears. If the noise is too loud, walk away, turn it down (Turn it to the Left), or use ear plugs.

pinna

ear canal

ear drumhammer

anvil

stirrup

Eustachian tube(connects to the nose)

cochlea

semicircular canalsnerves

(connect to the brain)

Directions: Color in the diagram below using a different color for each part of the ear.

LifeART image © 2008 Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. — Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. All rights reserved

Sound and Silence Beethoven’s Hearing Devices

Images courtesy of the Beethoven-Haus Bonn Museum Beethoven’s Ear Trumpets

Notice the bands designed to hold the ear trumpets against the head.

Beethoven Says... Student Worksheet

FIRST PICTURE WITHOUT SEEING

WITHOUT HEARING LISTENING

Timing Is Everything Student Worksheet

NAME DATE

CHARACTER:

Tweet #1: Beethoven as a person

Limit of 140 characters, including: letters, numbers, symbols (such as @), punctuation, and spaces.

Tweet #2: Beethoven’s Symphony No. 1

Tweet #3: Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6

Tweet #4: Beethoven losing his hearing and conducting Symphony No. 9 completely deaf

About Beethoven Lives Upstairs 21

A Composer’s Life: Ludwig van BeethovenBiographical Story for Students

“Again. Again!” Ludwig’s father watched sternly as the boy

returned to the piano bench. Ludwig thought he had practiced

enough for the day. He was looking forward to running in the

sunshine, but his father had other ideas.

At an early age, Ludwig van Beethoven had shown surprising

talent for the piano. His father kept him practicing for long hours,

hoping that Ludwig would become a famous young musician and

begin earning money for the family, just like another talented child

musician named Wolfgang Amadé Mozart.

Born probably on December 16, 1770, in Bonn, Germany,

Beethoven was 17 when he fi nally escaped the watchful eye of

his father and traveled to Vienna. He wanted to study with Mozart because he loved Mozart’s music.

However, soon after arriving in Vienna and having a few lessons with Mozart, Beethoven learned his

mother was dying and returned home to care for her. By the time he returned to Vienna, Mozart had

also died. Beethoven studied with Franz Joseph Haydn, another famous composer, instead.

Buzz. Buzzzzzzz. Beethoven put down his pen in frustration. It’s a few months before his 30th

birthday, and the constant buzzing in his ears is getting louder. It makes it diffi cult to hear, and the

composer is growing more and more concerned. “How can I compose music if I can’t hear over this

buzzing?” he asks himself. Over the next few years, Beethoven searches for doctors who say they

can cure him. One pours milk and ground nuts into his ears. Another rubs ointment on his arms that

causes them to blister, hoping to drain the infection from his ears. Nothing works.

Beethoven wouldn’t give up. He adapted to his worsening disability by using “ear trumpets,” cone-

shaped tubes that he held to his ears to amplify sounds. He was so focused on fi nding a way to keep

composing that some people gossiped that he had the legs of his piano sawed off so he could sit on

the fl oor and play, feeling the sound vibrations of the music in his body.

It was as he began to lose his hearing that Beethoven started composing symphonies. He liked

the idea that music without lyrics, or words, could communicate moods and paint pictures in the

audience’s mind. By his late 40s, Beethoven was completely deaf, but until his death in Vienna on

March 26, 1827, he composed some of the most joyful and famous music for orchestras ever written.

Beethoven is still considered a revolutionary fi gure in the history of music.

Story by Janice Hughes

Motif-ate! Student Worksheet

MOVEMENT 1: FAST MOVEMENT 2: SLOW

MOVEMENT 3: DANCE MOVEMENT 4: FAST

Motif-ate! Student Worksheet

MOVEMENT 1: FAST

What is the problem?

MOVEMENT 2: SLOW

How did the problem make me feel?

MOVEMENT 3: DANCE

How did I solve the problem?

MOVEMENT 4: FAST

How did I feel after I solved the problem?