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Intermediate Level Listening Lessons 2008-2009 Season

Below are lesson plans with brief composer biographies that are designed to help you prepare your students for the RPO’s Intermediate Concerts. We hope that the guide will be useful to both music and classroom teachers alike. Feel free to adapt or change the activities to suit the needs and abilities of your students. A preparatory CD will be sent to teachers whose schools are attending the concert.

Before the concert, please review the overview which includes biographies on conductor Michael Butterman and soloist Gabriel Cabezas, as well as suggestions on how to prepare your students for the concert. This will help your students enjoy the concert more on their special day.

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Files to Download:

Overview

Biographies for conductor Michael Butterman and cellist Gabriel Cabezas, and how to prepare your students for an RPO concert. (100 KB)

Bach Lesson

Lesson Plan for Orchestral Suite No. 2 and Biography of Johann Sebastian Bach. (24 KB)

Britten Lesson

Lesson Plan for Theme and Variations from A Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra and biography of Benjamin Britten. (194 KB)

Gabrieli Lesson

Biography of Giovanni Gabrieli (21 KB)

Haydn Lesson

Lesson Plan for Symphony No. 94, "Surprise," and biography for Franz Joseph Haydn. (455 KB)

Ives Lesson

Biography for Charles Ives. (25 KB)

Mussorgsky Lesson

Lesson Plan for "The Great Gate of Kiev" from Pictures at an Exhibition and biography for Modest Mussorgsky. (80 KB)

Strauss Lesson

Lesson Plan for Also sprach Zarathustra and biography for Richard Strauss. (101 KB)

Tchaikovsky Lesson

 Lesson Plan for Symphony No. 5 and biography for Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. (54 KB)

English Language Arts Lesson

Write a short biography of one of the composers whose music will be performed at the RPO Intermediate concert. (26 KB) 

Social Studies Lesson

Help students identify elements in music that reflect a particular culture, geographic region or historical era. (24 KB)

 

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