Digital Concert: Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra
A concert performance of Benjamin Britten’s Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra introduces and showcases each instrument. Backstage footage takes you behind the scenes to experience the teamwork needed to bring orchestral music to life.
Learning Objectives
Students will…
- Recognize orchestral instruments by sight and sound.
- Manipulate musical ideas in different ways to create variations in a theme and variations form.
Prepare students for the concert and extend learning afterwards with lesson plans and activity ideas.
Familiarize students with orchestral families as you challenge them to aurally identify instruments while moving expressively to Britten’s music.
Listening for Orchestral FamiliesExplore theme and variations form by composing variations using body percussion.
Body Percussion Theme and VariationsOlder students can compose a variation on Britten’s theme using pre-determined elements in a Google slide deck.
Composing Theme and VariationsFocus students’ attention by following along with a listening map of Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra.
Listening MapPost-Concert Survey
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