Specialist Home Learning Program

Music

Sub-school: Middles

Lesson number: 1 Week: 6 Date: Wednesday 20th of May

What am I learning? I am learning about different pitches of classical instruments.

What is my teacher looking for? I can differentiate the pitch (high and low) of classical instruments.

Listen

Listen to Canadian Brass perform Flight of the Bumblebee. This piece was written by Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. He wrote it in the year 1900!

https://youtu.be/xZO5KTJTwhE

Watch me here; https://youtu.be/zW5PV6FQMY8

Listen to the piccolo https://youtu.be/kc8WZbAWE1w Listen to the trumpet https://youtu.be/E5Hnnf2M_VM

French horn https://youtu.be/KgxuzMilgC8 Tuba https://youtu.be/JAQX39MO6x

Trombone; https://youtu.be/3ahWiS--CUU

Analyse

Answer these questions about Flight of the Bumblebee.

1. Which word best describes the tempo (or the speed of this piece of music): (Circle correct answer)

Very Slow Slow Medium Fast Very Fast

2. Looking at the video, which instrument do you think is making the low pitch sounds? (Circle correct answer)

Piccolo Trumpet French Horn Trombone Tuba

3. Which instrument do you think is making the high pitch sound? (Circle correct answer)

Piccolo Trumpet French Horn Trombone Tuba

4. Does this piece of music feature mostly low pitches or high pitches? (Circle correct answer)

Low pitches High pitches

5. Circle the words you could use to describe this music to someone else:

Speedy Smooth Quick Messy Buzzing Dark Bright Colourful Monotonous Joyful Exciting Moody

Dull Thick Thin Heavy Shrieking Gentle Exhausting Never ending

Silly High Low

Draw

The group playing this piece are called Canadian Brass.

The instruments you can see are (from left to right):

*Piccolo and Trumpet (these instruments are smaller therefore higher in pitch)

Find and draw pictures of each of these instruments to show how they look different from each other: