Discription of the brass family of instruments
This lesson contains resources and activities to be used in the elementary music classroom to teach students about the instruments and their purpose in an orchestral setting.
A tutorial and demonstration lesson for identifying orchestral instruments using the free FlashQuiz flashcard app for Windows
This resource contains links and lessons to give students a basic understanding of instruments of the orchestra, how to categorize them into families and where and why they are located in the orchestral setting
This course is a survey of developments in Western musical style, 1815-1915. Students will study works by 35 composers, including the romantics: Schubert, Chopin, and Schumann; the post-romantics: Wagner, Verdi, and Brahms; the turn-of-the-centurians: Mahler, Debussy, and Ravel; and the Americans: Gottschalk, Beach, and Joplin. Score-reading ability is beneficial.
This course is a survey of significant orchestral masterworks composed during three centuries. Listening assignments include 34 symphonies and 24 concertos, composed from the 1720s to the 1990s. Class discussion and oral presentations focus on the works in 18 miniature scores; prior score-reading experience is helpful. Each of the three written papers reviews a concert attended during the term. Since this is a participatory subject, each student will give oral presentations concerning composers and their symphonies and/or concertos.