15 Creative Listening Adventures
1. A Musical Zoo: Can you figure out which animal or insect the music is describing? Tormis: Kitty Cat, Kitty Cat; Saint-Saens: The Elephant from Carnival of the Animals; Rimsky-Korsakov: Flight of the Bumblebee; Respighi: The Hen from The Birds; Saint-Saens: The Swan from Carnival of the Animals
2. Fairy Tales: The stories of a Russian witch and an Oriental empress. Mussorgsky: Baba Yaga's Hut from Pictures at an Exhibition; Liadov: Baba Yaga; Ravel: Laideronette, Empress of the Pagodas from Mother Goose Suite
3. The Natural World: Listen to identify a sunrise, a tropical night, and a thunderstorm. Then match a musical mood with a natural setting. Respighi: Tropical Night from Brazilian Impressions; Grofe: Cloudburst from Grand Canyon Suite; Grofe: Sunrise from Grand Canyon Suite; Debussy: Clair de lune (Moonlight)
4. City-Scapes: Experience a busy foreign street scene, an American city at dawn, and crazy drivers in Paris. Debussy: On the Streets and Byways from Iberia; Copland: Quiet City; Gershwin: American in Paris
5. A Story Without Words: The Sorcer's Apprentice: Listen for magic brooms and watery disaster in the tale of the Sorcerer's Apprentice. Dukas: The Sorcerer's Apprentice
6. Do You See What I Hear?: Listening for patterns and colors. Reich: First Movement from Three Movements for Orchestra; Glass: The Lake from Itaipu; Bach: Prelude from Suite in F (arr. for harp)
7. A Story Without Words: It's your turn to tell the story as you hear it. There's a story in this music just add words! Ibert: Divertissement (first two movements)
8. Wild Rides: Encounter musical motion with fast machines and flying things. Wagner: Ride of the Valkyres; Adams: Short Ride in a Fast Machine; Lecuona: Vals Arabesque; Handel: Arrival of the Queen of Sheba; Bernstein: Overture to Candide
9. Mood Swings: Discover musical emotions as you travel from one extreme to another - sadness to joy, anger to triumph, desolation to silliness. Albinoni: Adagio; Copland: Happy Ending from Red Pony Suite; Gorecki: Four Preludes (I); Respighi: Pines of the Apian Way from The Pines of Rome; Shostakovich: Largo from Symphony No. 5; Ibert: Finale from Divertissement
10. Goosebumps: What makes scary scary? Mussorgsky: Night on Bald Mountain; Ravel: Gaspard de la Nuit (II); Grieg: In the Hall of The Mountain King from Peer Gynt Suite #1; Penderecki: Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima; Hermann: Sleigh Ride from The Devil and Daniel Webster
11. Weird and Wacky: From sneezes and donkeys to typewriters and trash discover unusual sounds and effects in music. Kodaly: Hary Janos Suite; Grofe: On the Trail from Grand Canyon Suite; Anderson: The Typewriter Song; Lang: The Anvil Chorus
12. A Beauty Contest: What makes beautiful music beautiful? Are there different kinds of beauty? Which piece of music will win the class vote for "Most Beautiful"? Vivaldi: Spring from Four Seasons; Barber: Adagio for Strings; Satie: Gymnopedie #1; Pachelbel: Canon in D; Mahler: Andante from Symphony No. 6; Holst: Juniper from The Planets
13. Water Music: Hear a river, a fountain, an ocean, rain and fish swimming in an aquarium. Smetana: The Moldau from Ma Vlast; Vivaldi: Winter (Rain) from Four Seasons; Respighi: The Fountain of Tritone al Mattino from The Fountains of Rome; Debussy: Play of the Waves from La Mer; Saint-Saens: The Aquarium from Carnival of the Animals
14. Voices of Angels: Could this be heaven? Hear some of the loveliest music in the world as it is sung by human voices working together. Allegri: Miserere; Faure: Sanctus from Requiem; Tavener: Song for Athene
15. Let's Make a Movie!: Let your imagination run wild as you think up plots and pictures to go along with these musical selections. Poulenc: Concerto for two Pianos and Orchestra (selection from end of first movement); Gliere: The Red Poppy (Introduction); Rachmaninov: The Isle of the Dead; Copland: Hoedown from Rodeo
1. A Musical Zoo: Can you figure out which animal or insect the music is describing? Tormis: Kitty Cat, Kitty Cat; Saint-Saens: The Elephant from Carnival of the Animals; Rimsky-Korsakov: Flight of the Bumblebee; Respighi: The Hen from The Birds; Saint-Saens: The Swan from Carnival of the Animals
2. Fairy Tales: The stories of a Russian witch and an Oriental empress. Mussorgsky: Baba Yaga's Hut from Pictures at an Exhibition; Liadov: Baba Yaga; Ravel: Laideronette, Empress of the Pagodas from Mother Goose Suite
3. The Natural World: Listen to identify a sunrise, a tropical night, and a thunderstorm. Then match a musical mood with a natural setting. Respighi: Tropical Night from Brazilian Impressions; Grofe: Cloudburst from Grand Canyon Suite; Grofe: Sunrise from Grand Canyon Suite; Debussy: Clair de lune (Moonlight)
4. City-Scapes: Experience a busy foreign street scene, an American city at dawn, and crazy drivers in Paris. Debussy: On the Streets and Byways from Iberia; Copland: Quiet City; Gershwin: American in Paris
5. A Story Without Words: The Sorcer's Apprentice: Listen for magic brooms and watery disaster in the tale of the Sorcerer's Apprentice. Dukas: The Sorcerer's Apprentice
6. Do You See What I Hear?: Listening for patterns and colors. Reich: First Movement from Three Movements for Orchestra; Glass: The Lake from Itaipu; Bach: Prelude from Suite in F (arr. for harp)
7. A Story Without Words: It's your turn to tell the story as you hear it. There's a story in this music just add words! Ibert: Divertissement (first two movements)
8. Wild Rides: Encounter musical motion with fast machines and flying things. Wagner: Ride of the Valkyres; Adams: Short Ride in a Fast Machine; Lecuona: Vals Arabesque; Handel: Arrival of the Queen of Sheba; Bernstein: Overture to Candide
9. Mood Swings: Discover musical emotions as you travel from one extreme to another - sadness to joy, anger to triumph, desolation to silliness. Albinoni: Adagio; Copland: Happy Ending from Red Pony Suite; Gorecki: Four Preludes (I); Respighi: Pines of the Apian Way from The Pines of Rome; Shostakovich: Largo from Symphony No. 5; Ibert: Finale from Divertissement
10. Goosebumps: What makes scary scary? Mussorgsky: Night on Bald Mountain; Ravel: Gaspard de la Nuit (II); Grieg: In the Hall of The Mountain King from Peer Gynt Suite #1; Penderecki: Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima; Hermann: Sleigh Ride from The Devil and Daniel Webster
11. Weird and Wacky: From sneezes and donkeys to typewriters and trash discover unusual sounds and effects in music. Kodaly: Hary Janos Suite; Grofe: On the Trail from Grand Canyon Suite; Anderson: The Typewriter Song; Lang: The Anvil Chorus
12. A Beauty Contest: What makes beautiful music beautiful? Are there different kinds of beauty? Which piece of music will win the class vote for "Most Beautiful"? Vivaldi: Spring from Four Seasons; Barber: Adagio for Strings; Satie: Gymnopedie #1; Pachelbel: Canon in D; Mahler: Andante from Symphony No. 6; Holst: Juniper from The Planets
13. Water Music: Hear a river, a fountain, an ocean, rain and fish swimming in an aquarium. Smetana: The Moldau from Ma Vlast; Vivaldi: Winter (Rain) from Four Seasons; Respighi: The Fountain of Tritone al Mattino from The Fountains of Rome; Debussy: Play of the Waves from La Mer; Saint-Saens: The Aquarium from Carnival of the Animals
14. Voices of Angels: Could this be heaven? Hear some of the loveliest music in the world as it is sung by human voices working together. Allegri: Miserere; Faure: Sanctus from Requiem; Tavener: Song for Athene
15. Let's Make a Movie!: Let your imagination run wild as you think up plots and pictures to go along with these musical selections. Poulenc: Concerto for two Pianos and Orchestra (selection from end of first movement); Gliere: The Red Poppy (Introduction); Rachmaninov: The Isle of the Dead; Copland: Hoedown from Rodeo