Our listening project in third grade music this spring is 'The Young Person's Guide To The Orchestra" by British composer Benjamin Britten. Before our unscheduled vacation, we were in the process of investigating the structure of the piece before listening to the entire piece. Here is a copy of what the students' listening map would have looked like after we had completed it in class:
Section 1 Section 2 Section 3 Section 4
Main Theme
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Theme Again!
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Solo Variations
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A Fugue!
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Played by the entire orchestra
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Played by each family: woodwinds, brass, strings, percussion
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Each instrument has its' own ‘special time’ while the other instruments play in the background.
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A musical ‘dog pile’ as one by one the instruments begin playing very actively over top of each other.
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Lasts less than a minute
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Ends with one more statement by full orchestra
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The longest section of the piece—it takes a while to hear every one!
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They come back in the same order you first heard them!
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Listen for a final statement of the main theme ‘overtop’ of the wild orchestra fugue just before the closing chords! A very clever and majestic ending!
And here is a link to a wonderful 2011 recording of the piece being performed in Sydney, Australia as part of a You Tube sponsored 'world orchestra' project:
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