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Antonio Vivaldi
was born and lived
in Italy from
1678-1741.
He was a Baroque
style composer
and violinist.
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Prince Philip of
Hesse-Darmstadt
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Whole Class
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Whole Class
Summer
Autumn
Winter
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Whole Class
Recap last weeks lesson on Antonio Vivaldi.
Introduce Spring as the focus concerto
for this lesson.
What does the season of Spring make you
think of?
Write childrens answers on the board.
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Whole Class
Movement 1: Allegro (fast, joyfully)
Play Spring (movement 1 only)
Listen to the music with eyes closed.
Draw and colour pictures while
listening to the movement.
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Class Discussion
Show pictures and discuss what the
children think the movement represents.
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Whole Class
Can you hear the joy of spring and the
birds?
Can you then hear the thunderstorm?
Can you lastly hear the birds again?
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Whole Class
Movement 2: Largo (slowly)
Play Spring (movement 2 only)
Listen to the music with eyes closed.
Draw and colour pictures while
listening to the movement.
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Class Discussion
Show pictures and discuss what the
children think the movement represents.
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Whole Class
Read the second part of the sonnet:
On the flower-strewn meadow, with leafy
branches rustling overhead, the goat-herder
sleeps, his faithful dog beside him.
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Whole Class
Does the music sound restful, like
someone is sleeping?
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Whole Class
Movement 3: Allegro (fast, joyfully)
Play Spring (movement 3 only)
Listen to the music with eyes closed.
Draw and colour pictures while
listening to the movement.
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Class Discussion
Show pictures and discuss what the
children think the movement represents.
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Whole Class
Does the music sound restful, like
someone is sleeping?
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It is an orchestra!
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Strings
Brass
Woodwind
Percussion
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Whole Class
Today, we are focusing on part of Vivaldis
Summer concerto and the string section
of the orchestra.
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Big is low
Little is high
This is a scientific rule, and
affects all music and sound.
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Whole Class
The pitch is how high or low a note
sounds.
The size of an instrument (and the
length of strings on a string instrument)
affects how high or low the notes are
that it produces.
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Whole Class
Order these pictures from highest to lowest
(smallest to largest):
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Violin
Viola
Cello
Double Bass
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Highest
Lowest
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Autum
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Whole Class
Play Vivaldis Autumn.
Discuss what the music made the children
think of.
Structure the discussion to the emotions,
colours and visual imagery of falling leaves.
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Whole Class
Which colour best matches the music? Why?
Discuss the emotions
of different colours:
Red anger
Blue sadness
Green peace
Yellow vibrancy
Purple - power
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Plenary
Look at the collages and compare ideas/
themes that run through them (e.g. leaves
falling from a tree/blowing in the wind,
orange/red/brown/yellow colours etc.)
Evaluation of collages:
What went well
What could be improved
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Whole Class
Listen to movements 2 and 3 from the
Winter concerto.
How did the music make you feel? What
did it remind you of?
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Whole Class
If we move too fast, we slip and fall to the ground
Again treading heavily on the ice
Until the ice breaks up and dissolves
Class Discussion
How does Vivaldi show differences in the
weather through his string instruments?
String instruments produce sound from
vibrating strings that lay across the main
body of the instrument. The vibrations
transmit to the air inside it.
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Class Discussion
There are three common techniques to
play a string instrument:
1. Plucking
2. Bowing
3. Striking
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Whole Class
Vivaldi uses plucking to depict the falling
raindrops, after which a warm melody on a
solo violin describes the pleasant indoors with
a roaring fire.
The finale opens with bowed/sliding phrases
by the violin this gives the picture of walking
and slipping on thin ice.
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Music Glossary
Title
Definition
Orchestra
Symphony
Music Glossary
Title
Definition
Concerto
Movement
Opera
Music Glossary
Title
Definition
Melody
Metre
Tempo
Dynamics
Music Glossary
Title
Definition
Timbre
Harmony