Discovery Orchestra Chat 62 – Text Painting
Composers drive home the meaning of words by composing appropriate musical settings.
Do you like being deceived? Well, composers use deceptive cadences to surprise the music listener!
Thank you for providing the free online learning videos! We had our students listen to The Firebird Suite Lullaby & Finale and read an article where researchers found evidence that a conch shell was used as an instrument 17,000 years ago. Then students drew a picture (grades K-2) or wrote (grades 3-8) about how the music made them feel.